Re: [PATCH] MIPS: crazy spinlock speed test.

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:26:35PM -0800, David Daney wrote:

> This is just a test program for raw_spinlocks.  The main reason I
> wrote it is to validate my spinlock changes that I sent in a previous
> patch.
> 
> To use it enable CONFIG_DEBUG_FS and CONFIG_SPINLOCK_TEST then at run
> time do:
> 
> # mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug/
> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/mips/spin_single
> # cat /sys/kernel/debug/mips/spin_multi
> 
> On my 600MHz octeon cn5860 (16 CPUs) I get
> 
>               spin_single     spin_multi
> base          106885          247941
> spinlock_patch        75194           219465
> 
> This shows that for uncontended locks the spinlock patch gives 41%
> improvement and for contended locks 12% improvement (1/time).
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>

Also queued for 2.6.34.

Thanks!

  Ralf