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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2012-08-06 17:29:49 +0930
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-08-23 10:45:13 +0200
commit816afe4ff98ee10b1d30fd66361be132a0a5cee6 (patch)
treeedb054530d87da95a9a9054d50467d92b62d8214 /arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
parentMerge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) (diff)
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x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus
We still patch SMP instructions to UP variants if we boot with a single CPU, but not at any other time. In particular, not if we unplug CPUs to return to a single cpu. Paul McKenney points out: mean offline overhead is 6251/48=130.2 milliseconds. If I remove the alternatives_smp_switch() from the offline path [...] the mean offline overhead is 550/42=13.1 milliseconds Basically, we're never going to get those 120ms back, and the code is pretty messy. We get rid of: 1) The "smp-alt-once" boot option. It's actually "smp-alt-boot", the documentation is wrong. It's now the default. 2) The skip_smp_alternatives flag used by suspend. 3) arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_begin() and arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_end() which were only used to set this one flag. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul McKenney <paul.mckenney@us.ibm.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87vcgwwive.fsf@rustcorp.com.au Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
index 70780689599a..444704c8e186 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ extern void alternatives_smp_module_add(struct module *mod, char *name,
void *locks, void *locks_end,
void *text, void *text_end);
extern void alternatives_smp_module_del(struct module *mod);
-extern void alternatives_smp_switch(int smp);
+extern void alternatives_enable_smp(void);
extern int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end);
extern bool skip_smp_alternatives;
#else
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static inline void alternatives_smp_module_add(struct module *mod, char *name,
void *locks, void *locks_end,
void *text, void *text_end) {}
static inline void alternatives_smp_module_del(struct module *mod) {}
-static inline void alternatives_smp_switch(int smp) {}
+static inline void alternatives_enable_smp(void) {}
static inline int alternatives_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
{
return 0;