coverage: Add coverage_try_clear() for performance-critical threads.
For performance-critical threads like pmd threads, we currently make them
never call coverage_clear() to avoid contention over the global mutex
'coverage_mutex'. So, even though pmd thread still keeps updating their
thread-local coverage count, the count is never attributed to the global
total. But it is useful to have them available.
This commit makes this happen by implementing a non-contending version
of the clear function, coverage_try_clear(). The function will use
the ovs_mutex_trylock() and return immediately if the mutex cannot
be acquired. Since threads like pmd thread are always busy-looping,
the lock will eventually be acquired.
Requested-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Wang <alexw@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Daniele Di Proietto <diproiettod@vmware.com