3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: David Vrabel <[email protected]> commit 7eb7ce4d2e8991aff4ecb71a81949a907ca755ac upstream. In xen_restore_fl_direct(), xen_force_evtchn_callback() was being called even if no events were pending. This resulted in (depending on workload) about a 100 times as many xen_version hypercalls as necessary. Fix this by correcting the sense of the conditional jump. This seems to give a significant performance benefit for some workloads. There is some subtle tricksy "..since the check here is trying to check both pending and masked in a single cmpw, but I think this is correct. It will call check_events now only when the combined mask+pending word is 0x0001 (aka unmasked, pending)." (Ian) Acked-by: Ian Campbell <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S b/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S index 79d7362..3e45aa0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S +++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ ENTRY(xen_restore_fl_direct) /* check for unmasked and pending */ cmpw $0x0001, PER_CPU_VAR(xen_vcpu_info) + XEN_vcpu_info_pending - jz 1f + jnz 1f 2: call check_events 1: ENDPATCH(xen_restore_fl_direct) -- 1.7.10 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
