linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 1/2] membarrier: speed up single-threaded private cmd

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Date:   Sun, 27 Aug 2017 12:54:03 -0700
From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:     "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Andrew Hunter <ahh@...gle.com>,
        Maged Michael <maged.michael@...il.com>, gromer@...gle.com,
        Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/2] membarrier: speed up single-threaded private cmd

Single-threaded processes don't need to issue barriers, since the
thread's current CPU is the only one that matters.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
CC: Andrew Hunter <ahh@...gle.com>
CC: Maged Michael <maged.michael@...il.com>
CC: gromer@...gle.com
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
CC: Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>
---
 kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index a92fddc22747..7eec6914d2d2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static void membarrier_private_expedited(void)
 	bool fallback = false;
 	cpumask_var_t tmpmask;
 
-	if (num_online_cpus() == 1)
+	if (num_online_cpus() == 1 || get_nr_threads(current) == 1)
 		return;
 
 	/*
-- 
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