On 07/01/2016 09:16 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
Lock contention in the hot path of moving between existing patched
TranslationBlocks is the main drag in multithreaded performance. This
patch pushes the tb_lock() usage down to the two places that really need
it:

  - code generation (tb_gen_code)
  - jump patching (tb_add_jump)

The rest of the code doesn't really need to hold a lock as it is either
using per-CPU structures, atomically updated or designed to be used in
concurrent read situations (qht_lookup).

To keep things simple I removed the #ifdef CONFIG_USER_ONLY stuff as the
locks become NOPs anyway until the MTTCG work is completed.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>

---
v3
  - fix merge conflicts with Sergey's patch
v4
  - revert name tweaking
  - drop test jmp_list_next outside lock
  - mention lock NOPs in comments
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 cpu-exec.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net>


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