The current locking mechanism uses a ll/sc sequence to release a
spinlock. This is slower than a wmb() followed by a store to unlock.
The branching forward to .subsection 2 on sc failure slows down the
contended case. So we get rid of that part too.
Since we are now working on naturally aligned u16 values, we can get
rid of a masking operation as the LHU already does the right thing.
The ANDI are reversed for better scheduling on multi-issue CPUs
On a 12 CPU 750MHz Octeon cn5750 this patch improves ipv4 UDP packet
forwarding rates from 3.58*10^6 PPS to 3.99*10^6 PPS, or about 11%.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/937/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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