Instead of polling for mcslock to be updated, use wait event scheme
for this case.
Signed-off-by: Feifei Wang <feifei.wa...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.w...@arm.com>
---
lib/eal/include/generic/rte_mcslock.h | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/eal/include/generic/rte_mcslock.h
b/lib/eal/include/generic/rte_mcslock.h
index 34f33c64a5..b4e07648ff 100644
--- a/lib/eal/include/generic/rte_mcslock.h
+++ b/lib/eal/include/generic/rte_mcslock.h
@@ -116,8 +116,9 @@ rte_mcslock_unlock(rte_mcslock_t **msl, rte_mcslock_t *me)
/* More nodes added to the queue by other CPUs.
* Wait until the next pointer is set.
*/
- while (__atomic_load_n(&me->next, __ATOMIC_RELAXED) == NULL)
- rte_pause();
+ uintptr_t *next;
+ next = (uintptr_t *)&me->next;
+ rte_wait_event(next, UINTPTR_MAX, ==, 0, __ATOMIC_RELAXED);
}
/* Pass lock to next waiter. */
--
2.25.1
