[PATCH] soc: ti: knav_qmss: Use percpu instead atomic for stats counter

[santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com]

On 4/11/18 3:28 PM, santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com wrote:
> On 4/11/18 12:16 PM, Vasyl Gomonovych wrote:
>> Hwqueue has collect statistics in heavy use queue_pop/queu_push functions
>> for cache efficiency and make push/pop faster use percpu variables.
>> For performance reasons, driver should keep descriptor in software 
>> handler
>> as short as possible and quickly return it back to hardware queue.
>> Descriptors coming into driver from hardware after pop and return back
>> by push to reduce descriptor lifetime in driver collect statistics on 
>> percpu.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vasyl Gomonovych <gomonovych at gmail.com>
>> ---
> This is really good idea. Have you tested this patch ? If not it needs
> to be tested on Keystone SOCs to make sure all works.
> 
Thanks for confirming the tests done with rapidIO offlist. Will queue
this patch for next merge window.

Regards,
Santosh