tree f6c805c01be475f21de0cdcada8f69c9076ea61e
parent 21bc4f9b34cc1eab3610955207f72c52495ae8ed
author David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> 1114662051 -0700
committer Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> 1114662051 -0700

[IA64] Reschedule fsys_bubble_down().

Improvements come from eliminating srlz.i, not scheduling AR/CR-reads
too early (while there are others still pending), scheduling the
backing-store switch as well as possible, splitting the BBB bundle
into a MIB/MBB pair.

Why is it safe to eliminate the srlz.i?  Observe
that we used to clear bits ~PSR_PRESERVED_BITS in PSR.L.  Since
PSR_PRESERVED_BITS==PSR.{UP,MFL,MFH,PK,DT,PP,SP,RT,IC}, we
ended up clearing PSR.{BE,AC,I,DFL,DFH,DI,DB,SI,TB}.  However,

 PSR.BE : already is turned off in __kernel_syscall_via_epc()
 PSR.AC : don't care (kernel normally turns PSR.AC on)
 PSR.I  : already turned off by the time fsys_bubble_down gets invoked
 PSR.DFL: always 0 (kernel never turns it on)
 PSR.DFH: don't care --- kernel never touches f32-f127 on its own
	  initiative
 PSR.DI : always 0 (kernel never turns it on)
 PSR.SI : always 0 (kernel never turns it on)
 PSR.DB : don't care --- kernel never enables kernel-level breakpoints
 PSR.TB : must be 0 already; if it wasn't zero on entry to
	  __kernel_syscall_via_epc, the branch to fsys_bubble_down
	  will trigger a taken branch; the taken-trap-handler then
	  converts the syscall into a break-based system-call.

In other words: all the bits we're clearying are either 0 already or
are don't cares!  Thus, we don't have to write PSR.L at all and we
don't have to do a srlz.i either.

Good for another ~20 cycle improvement for EPC-based heavy-weight
syscalls.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>