RCU does not do dynamic allocations but it increments per cpu variables a lot. These instructions results in a move to a register and then back to memory. This patch will make it use the inc/dec instructions on x86 that do not need a register. Acked-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter --- kernel/rcutorture.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/kernel/rcutorture.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/rcutorture.c 2009-09-28 10:08:10.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/kernel/rcutorture.c 2009-09-29 09:02:00.000000000 -0500 @@ -731,13 +731,13 @@ static void rcu_torture_timer(unsigned l /* Should not happen, but... */ pipe_count = RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN; } - ++__get_cpu_var(rcu_torture_count)[pipe_count]; + __this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(rcu_torture_count)[pipe_count]); completed = cur_ops->completed() - completed; if (completed > RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN) { /* Should not happen, but... */ completed = RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN; } - ++__get_cpu_var(rcu_torture_batch)[completed]; + __this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(rcu_torture_batch)[completed]); preempt_enable(); cur_ops->readunlock(idx); } @@ -786,13 +786,13 @@ rcu_torture_reader(void *arg) /* Should not happen, but... */ pipe_count = RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN; } - ++__get_cpu_var(rcu_torture_count)[pipe_count]; + __this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(rcu_torture_count)[pipe_count]); completed = cur_ops->completed() - completed; if (completed > RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN) { /* Should not happen, but... */ completed = RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN; } - ++__get_cpu_var(rcu_torture_batch)[completed]; + __this_cpu_inc(per_cpu_var(rcu_torture_batch)[completed]); preempt_enable(); cur_ops->readunlock(idx); schedule(); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/