[RFC PATCH 1/2] ARM: cache-l2x0: avoid taking spinlock for every iteration
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Dec 14 05:21:26 EST 2009
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 17:40 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Taking the spinlock for every iteration is very expensive; instead,
> batch iterations up into 4K blocks, releasing and reacquiring the
> spinlock between each block.
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at arm.linux.org.uk>
It looks fine to me:
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
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Catalin
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