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There is no need for rmb(), this allows faster lwsync here. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> --- arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c index 6440d5943c00..47a530de733e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ void splpar_spin_yield(arch_spinlock_t *lock) yield_count = be32_to_cpu(lppaca_of(holder_cpu).yield_count); if ((yield_count & 1) == 0) return; /* virtual cpu is currently running */ - rmb(); + smp_rm...

This series adds an option to use queued spinlocks for powerpc, and makes it the default for the Book3S-64 subarch. This effort starts with the generic code so it's very simple but still very performant. There are optimisations that can be made to slowpaths, but I think it's better to attack those incrementally if/when we find things, and try to add the improvements to generic code as