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[PATCH] Prefetch kernel stacks to speed up context switch

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For architecture like ia64, the switch stack structure is fairly large
(currently 528 bytes).  For context switch intensive application, we found
that significant amount of cache misses occurs in switch_to() function.
The following patch adds a hook in the schedule() function to prefetch
switch stack structure as soon as 'next' task is determined.  This allows
maximum overlap in prefetch cache lines for that structure.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Chen, Kenneth W 2005-09-09 13:02:02 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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include/asm-ia64/system.h
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@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ extern void ia64_load_extra (struct task_struct *task);
*/
#define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW
#define ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH_SWITCH_STACK
#define ia64_platform_is(x) (strcmp(x, platform_name) == 0)
void cpu_idle_wait(void);