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From: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
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Subject: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2 2/5] ticketlock: use new API to reduce
contention on aarch64
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While using ticket lock, cores repeatedly poll the lock variable.
This is replaced by rte_wait_until_equal API.
Running ticketlock_autotest on ThunderX2, with different numbers of cores
and depths of rings, 3%~8% performance gains were measured.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
---
lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_ticketlock.h | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_ticketlock.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_ticketlock.h
index 191146f..8fa1f62 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_ticketlock.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/generic/rte_ticketlock.h
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@ static inline __rte_experimental void
rte_ticketlock_lock(rte_ticketlock_t *tl)
{
uint16_t me = __atomic_fetch_add(&tl->s.next, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
- while (__atomic_load_n(&tl->s.current, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE) != me)
- rte_pause();
+ rte_wait_until_equal16(&tl->s.current, me, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE);
}
/**
--
2.7.4