ARM: 7984/1: prefetch: add prefetchw invocations for barriered atomics
After a bunch of benchmarking on the interaction between dmb and pldw, it turns out that issuing the pldw *after* the dmb instruction can give modest performance gains (~3% atomic_add_return improvement on a dual A15). This patch adds prefetchw invocations to our barriered atomic operations including cmpxchg, test_and_xxx and futexes. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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