From 0b2fcfdb8b4e7e379192f24ea2203163ddf5df1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:01:02 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] atomic: add_unless cmpxchg optimise
Without branch hints, the very unlikely chance of the loop repeating due to
cmpxchg failure is unrolled with gcc-4 that I have tested.
Improve this for architectures with a native cas/cmpxchg. llsc archs
should try to implement this natively.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
include/asm-i386/atomic.h | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(limited to 'include/asm-i386')
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/atomic.h b/include/asm-i386/atomic.h
index 78b0032..22d80ec 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/atomic.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/atomic.h
@@ -225,8 +225,14 @@ static __inline__ int atomic_sub_return(int i, atomic_t *v)
({ \
int c, old; \
c = atomic_read(v); \
- while (c != (u) && (old = atomic_cmpxchg((v), c, c + (a))) != c) \
+ for (;;) { \
+ if (unlikely(c == (u))) \
+ break; \
+ old = atomic_cmpxchg((v), c, c + (a)); \
+ if (likely(old == c)) \
+ break; \
c = old; \
+ } \
c != (u); \
})
#define atomic_inc_not_zero(v) atomic_add_unless((v), 1, 0)
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