From aacf682fd8c66b57383c407eecd9d4a28264ee91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:14:27 +0200 Subject: x86: atomic64: Improve atomic64_read() Linus noticed that the 32-bit version of atomic64_read() was being overly complex with re-reading the value and doing a retry loop over that. Instead we can just rely on cmpxchg8b returning either the new value or returning the current value. We can use any 'old' value, which will be faster as it can be loaded via immediates. Using some value that is not equal to the real value in memory the instruction gets faster. This also has the advantage that the CPU could avoid dirtying the cacheline. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: David Howells Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/lib') diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c b/arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c index d21e725d3d8..afa5d444918 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c @@ -67,13 +67,9 @@ void atomic64_set(atomic64_t *ptr, u64 new_val) */ u64 atomic64_read(atomic64_t *ptr) { - u64 curr_val; + u64 old = 1LL << 32; - do { - curr_val = __atomic64_read(ptr); - } while (atomic64_cmpxchg(ptr, curr_val, curr_val) != curr_val); - - return curr_val; + return cmpxchg8b(&ptr->counter, old, old); } /** -- cgit v1.2.3