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Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:28:24 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Len Brown <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
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	zhugh.fnst@...fujitsu.com, jschoenh@...zon.de, luto@...capital.net,
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	len.brown@...el.com, imammedo@...hat.com,
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Subject: [tip:x86/boot] x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100)
  when polling cpu_callin_map

Commit-ID:  2d99af8e8fd6c2dea11ab539f7aba69c37b845b4
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2d99af8e8fd6c2dea11ab539f7aba69c37b845b4
Author:     Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
AuthorDate: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 11:45:46 -0400
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 10:42:27 +0200

x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_callin_map

After the BSP sends INIT/SIPI/SIP to the AP and sees the AP
in the cpu_initialized_map, it sets the AP loose via the
cpu_callout_map, and waits for it via the cpu_callin_map.

The BSP polls the cpu_callin_map with a udelay(100)
and a schedule() in each iteration.

The udelay(100) adds no value.

For example, on my 4-CPU dekstop, the AP finishes
cpu_callin() in under 70 usec and sets the cpu_callin_mask.
The BSP, however, doesn't see that setting until over 30 usec
later, because it was still running its udelay(100)
when the AP finished.

Deleting the udelay(100) in the cpu_callin_mask polling loop,
saves from 0 to 100 usec per Application Processor.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>
Cc: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@...zon.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Zhu Guihua <zhugh.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0aade12eabeb89a688c929fe80856eaea0544bb7.1439739165.git.len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 9ad88fb..310b6f0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -926,7 +926,6 @@ static int do_boot_cpu(int apicid, int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
 			 * for the MTRR work(triggered by the AP coming online)
 			 * to be completed in the stop machine context.
 			 */
-			udelay(100);
 			schedule();
 		}
 	}
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