tree 5ee80fa60fcbf93d241ad31f9faa0dd24bdb5e37
parent 9de667af6e92ab709850dfc4ab25e48093e351ba
author Earl Ou <shunhsingou@google.com> 1600754790 +0800
committer Earl Ou <shunhsingou@google.com> 1601260241 +0000

base,sim: implement a faster mutex for single thread case

This change applies an atomic variable to check if we really need to
obtain a mutex, and uses a condition variable to notify.

See about 5% improvement in the simulation speed.

Change-Id: I7e165987dcb587b27fae90978b9b3fde6f5563ef
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/34915
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Cooper <richard.cooper@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>