Re: [PATCH] lglock: Map to spinlock when !CONFIG_SMP

[Rusty Russell]

Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> When the system has only one CPU, lglock is effectively a spinlock; map
> it directly to spinlock to eliminate the indirection and duplicate code.
>
> In addition to removing overhead, this drops 1.6k of code with a defconfig
> modified to have !CONFIG_SMP, and 1.1k with a minimal config.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Nice.  Looks like a patch for Andrew Morton though.

Cheers,
Rusty.

> ---
>  include/linux/lglock.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/Makefile        |  4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/lglock.h b/include/linux/lglock.h
> index 0d24e93..6561b1c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/lglock.h
> +++ b/include/linux/lglock.h
> @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
>  #define DEFINE_BRLOCK(name)		DEFINE_LGLOCK(name)
>  #define DEFINE_STATIC_BRLOCK(name)	DEFINE_STATIC_LGLOCK(name)
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
>  #define LOCKDEP_INIT_MAP lockdep_init_map
>  #else
> @@ -67,4 +69,18 @@ void lg_local_unlock_cpu(struct lglock *lg, int cpu);
>  void lg_global_lock(struct lglock *lg);
>  void lg_global_unlock(struct lglock *lg);
>  
> +#else
> +/* When !CONFIG_SMP, map lglock to spinlock */
> +#define lglock spinlock
> +#define DEFINE_LGLOCK(name) DEFINE_SPINLOCK(name)
> +#define DEFINE_STATIC_LGLOCK(name) static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(name)
> +#define lg_lock_init(lg, name) spin_lock_init(lg)
> +#define lg_local_lock spin_lock
> +#define lg_local_unlock spin_unlock
> +#define lg_local_lock_cpu(lg, cpu) spin_lock(lg)
> +#define lg_local_unlock_cpu(lg, cpu) spin_unlock(lg)
> +#define lg_global_lock spin_lock
> +#define lg_global_unlock spin_unlock
> +#endif
> +
>  #endif
> diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
> index 1ce4755..84a89f7 100644
> --- a/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ obj-y     = fork.o exec_domain.o panic.o \
>  	    kthread.o wait.o sys_ni.o posix-cpu-timers.o mutex.o \
>  	    hrtimer.o rwsem.o nsproxy.o srcu.o semaphore.o \
>  	    notifier.o ksysfs.o cred.o reboot.o \
> -	    async.o range.o groups.o lglock.o smpboot.o
> +	    async.o range.o groups.o smpboot.o
>  
>  ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
>  # Do not trace debug files and internal ftrace files
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += smp.o
>  ifneq ($(CONFIG_SMP),y)
>  obj-y += up.o
>  endif
> -obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += spinlock.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += lglock.o spinlock.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK) += spinlock.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) += spinlock.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_UID16) += uid16.o
> -- 
> 1.8.4.rc3
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