Currently we emit a consume-load in atomic_rcu_read. Because of
limitations in current compilers, this is overkill for non-Alpha hosts
and it is only useful to make Thread Sanitizer work.
This patch leaves the consume-load in atomic_rcu_read when
compiling with Thread Sanitizer enabled, and resorts to a
relaxed load + smp_read_barrier_depends otherwise.
On an RMO host architecture, such as aarch64, the performance
improvement of this change is easily measurable. For instance,
qht-bench performs an atomic_rcu_read on every lookup. Performance
before and after applying this patch:
$ tests/qht-bench -d 5 -n 1
Before: 9.78 MT/s
After: 10.96 MT/s
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Message-Id: <1464120374-8950-4-git-send-email-cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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