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Martijn Coenen 148ade2c4d ANDROID: binder: Add thread->process_todo flag.
This flag determines whether the thread should currently
process the work in the thread->todo worklist.

The prime usecase for this is improving the performance
of synchronous transactions: all synchronous transactions
post a BR_TRANSACTION_COMPLETE to the calling thread,
but there's no reason to return that command to userspace
right away - userspace anyway needs to wait for the reply.

Likewise, a synchronous transaction that contains a binder
object can cause a BC_ACQUIRE/BC_INCREFS to be returned to
userspace; since the caller must anyway hold a strong/weak
ref for the duration of the call, postponing these commands
until the reply comes in is not a problem.

Note that this flag is not used to determine whether a
thread can handle process work; a thread should never pick
up process work when thread work is still pending.

Before patch:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark                           Time           CPU Iterations
------------------------------------------------------------------
BM_sendVec_binderize/4          45959 ns      20288 ns      34351
BM_sendVec_binderize/8          45603 ns      20080 ns      34909
BM_sendVec_binderize/16         45528 ns      20113 ns      34863
BM_sendVec_binderize/32         45551 ns      20122 ns      34881
BM_sendVec_binderize/64         45701 ns      20183 ns      34864
BM_sendVec_binderize/128        45824 ns      20250 ns      34576
BM_sendVec_binderize/256        45695 ns      20171 ns      34759
BM_sendVec_binderize/512        45743 ns      20211 ns      34489
BM_sendVec_binderize/1024       46169 ns      20430 ns      34081

After patch:
------------------------------------------------------------------
Benchmark                           Time           CPU Iterations
------------------------------------------------------------------
BM_sendVec_binderize/4          42939 ns      17262 ns      40653
BM_sendVec_binderize/8          42823 ns      17243 ns      40671
BM_sendVec_binderize/16         42898 ns      17243 ns      40594
BM_sendVec_binderize/32         42838 ns      17267 ns      40527
BM_sendVec_binderize/64         42854 ns      17249 ns      40379
BM_sendVec_binderize/128        42881 ns      17288 ns      40427
BM_sendVec_binderize/256        42917 ns      17297 ns      40429
BM_sendVec_binderize/512        43184 ns      17395 ns      40411
BM_sendVec_binderize/1024       43119 ns      17357 ns      40432

Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-28 16:33:03 +01:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.