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lib/vdso: Add unlikely() hint into vdso_read_begin()

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Place the branch with no concurrent write before the contended case.

Performance numbers for Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz
(more clock_gettime() cycles - the better):
        | before    | after
-----------------------------------
        | 150252214 | 153242367
        | 150301112 | 153324800
        | 150392773 | 153125401
        | 150373957 | 153399355
        | 150303157 | 153489417
        | 150365237 | 153494270
-----------------------------------
avg     | 150331408 | 153345935
diff %  | 2	    | 0
-----------------------------------
stdev % | 0.3	    | 0.1

Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-2-dima@arista.com
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Andrei Vagin 2019-11-12 01:26:50 +00:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent cdb7c5a9c8
commit 0898a16a36
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include/vdso/helpers.h
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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ static __always_inline u32 vdso_read_begin(const struct vdso_data *vd)
{
u32 seq;
while ((seq = READ_ONCE(vd->seq)) & 1)
while (unlikely((seq = READ_ONCE(vd->seq)) & 1))
cpu_relax();
smp_rmb();