[PATCH v2 0/3] Add pause to empty spin loops

[Stephen Hemminger]

On SMT systems, empty spinloops can cause excessive latency due to
the spinning core consuming resources that could be used by other
hardware threads. This series addresses this by adding rte_pause()
calls to busy-wait loops in the cnxk drivers.

The first two patches fix existing empty spinloops in the net/cnxk
and event/cnxk drivers. These were identified using a new coccinelle
script that finds variations of the pattern:

    while (!atomic(&flag));

The third patch adds this coccinelle script to devtools/ so that
similar issues can be detected and fixed automatically.

v2 - rebase for 26.07

Stephen Hemminger (3):
  net/cnxk: add pause to spinloops
  event/cnxk: add pause to spinloops
  devtools/cocci: add script to find empty spinloops

 devtools/cocci/fix_empty_spinloops.cocci | 165 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/event/cnxk/cn10k_worker.c        |   2 +-
 drivers/event/cnxk/cn20k_worker.c        |   2 +-
 drivers/event/cnxk/cnxk_tim_worker.h     |   4 +-
 drivers/net/cnxk/cn10k_tx.h              |   4 +-
 drivers/net/cnxk/cn20k_tx.h              |   4 +-
 6 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 devtools/cocci/fix_empty_spinloops.cocci

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