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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2007-03-23 15:12:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-04-13 03:55:15 +1000 |
| commit | dbf8eefa2b814d6922492120bfa46d4bc42ceb20 (patch) | |
| tree | bb70c85fdcbce38001e9a5d9f1bb556e1eb4379f /arch/powerpc | |
| parent | 28066ae91b2050d79531a6f2d5e35dd8f666bafd (diff) | |
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[POWERPC] spufs: don't yield CPU in spu_yield
There is no reason to yield the CPU in spu_yield - if the backing
thread reenters spu_run it gets added to the end of the runqueue for
it's priority. So the yield is just a slowdown for the case where
we have higher priority contexts waiting.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c index 39823cec0844..c9561582ce2a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c @@ -438,7 +438,6 @@ void spu_deactivate(struct spu_context *ctx) void spu_yield(struct spu_context *ctx) { struct spu *spu; - int need_yield = 0; if (mutex_trylock(&ctx->state_mutex)) { if ((spu = ctx->spu) != NULL) { @@ -447,13 +446,10 @@ void spu_yield(struct spu_context *ctx) pr_debug("%s: yielding SPU %d NODE %d\n", __FUNCTION__, spu->number, spu->node); spu_deactivate(ctx); - need_yield = 1; } } mutex_unlock(&ctx->state_mutex); } - if (unlikely(need_yield)) - yield(); } int __init spu_sched_init(void) |