ARM: 7446/1: spinlock: use ticket algorithm for ARMv6+ locking implementation
Ticket spinlocks ensure locking fairness by introducing a FIFO-like nature to the granting of lock acquisitions and also reducing the thundering herd effect when spinning on a lock by allowing the cacheline to remain in a shared state amongst the waiting CPUs. This is especially important on systems where memory-access times are not necessarily uniform when accessing the lock structure (for example, on a multi-cluster platform where the lock is allocated into L1 when a CPU releases it). This patch implements the ticket spinlock algorithm for ARM, replacing the simpler implementation for ARMv6+ processors. Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment