Re: inlined spinlocks on sparc64

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:20:58 +0200

> I deleted the original thread, so I can't reply there. Just a heads up
> on the spinlock inlining on sparc64. I decided to give your patches a
> shot, since one of my IO benchmarks here basically degenerates into a
> spinlock microbenchmark with > 50% time spent there (unlock part,
> according to perf). Some of that is surely caching effects, but still.
> 
> For this particular workload, I get a net improvement of about 3.5% with
> the inlined functions. Not bad.

Doesn't surprise me, any function call can result in a register
window spill onto the stack, and that's 128 bytes of writes.

Later when you leave the code path you have to refill that spilled
window and you get 128 bytes of reads for each one of those.