Re: inlined spinlocks on sparc64

[Heiko Carstens]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:20:58AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I deleted the original thread, so I can't reply there. Just a heads up
> on the spinlock inlining on sparc64. I decided to give your patches a
> shot, since one of my IO benchmarks here basically degenerates into a
> spinlock microbenchmark with > 50% time spent there (unlock part,
> according to perf). Some of that is surely caching effects, but still.
> 
> For this particular workload, I get a net improvement of about 3.5% with
> the inlined functions. Not bad.

That sounds good! Btw. Andrew added the patches to his -mm tree, so it
looks like the patches will be merged during the next merge window.
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