24 Feb, 2015
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With the new standardized functions, we can replace all
ACCESS_ONCE() calls across relevant locking - this includes
lockref and seqlock while at it.ACCESS_ONCE() does not work reliably on non-scalar types.
For example gcc 4.6 and 4.7 might remove the volatile tag
for such accesses during the SRA (scalar replacement of
aggregates) step:https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145
Update the new calls regardless of if it is a scalar type,
this is cleaner than having three alternatives.Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424662301.6539.18.camel@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
14 Jan, 2015
2 commits
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Both mutexes and rwsems took a performance hit when we switched
over from the original mcs code to the cancelable variant (osq).
The reason being the use of smp_load_acquire() when polling for
node->locked. This is not needed as reordering is not an issue,
as such, relax the barrier semantics. Paul describes the scenario
nicely: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/19/405- If we start polling before the insertion is complete, all that
happens is that the first few polls have no chance of seeing a lock
grant.- Ordering the polling against the initialization -- the above
xchg() is already doing that for us.The smp_load_acquire() when unqueuing make sense. In addition,
we don't need to worry about leaking the critical region as
osq is only used internally.This impacts both regular and large levels of concurrency,
ie on a 40 core system with a disk intensive workload:disk-1 804.83 ( 0.00%) 828.16 ( 2.90%)
disk-61 8063.45 ( 0.00%) 18181.82 (125.48%)
disk-121 7187.41 ( 0.00%) 20119.17 (179.92%)
disk-181 6933.32 ( 0.00%) 20509.91 (195.82%)
disk-241 6850.81 ( 0.00%) 20397.80 (197.74%)
disk-301 6815.22 ( 0.00%) 20287.58 (197.68%)
disk-361 7080.40 ( 0.00%) 20205.22 (185.37%)
disk-421 7076.13 ( 0.00%) 19957.33 (182.04%)
disk-481 7083.25 ( 0.00%) 19784.06 (179.31%)
disk-541 7038.39 ( 0.00%) 19610.92 (178.63%)
disk-601 7072.04 ( 0.00%) 19464.53 (175.23%)
disk-661 7010.97 ( 0.00%) 19348.23 (175.97%)
disk-721 7069.44 ( 0.00%) 19255.33 (172.37%)
disk-781 7007.58 ( 0.00%) 19103.14 (172.61%)
disk-841 6981.18 ( 0.00%) 18964.22 (171.65%)
disk-901 6968.47 ( 0.00%) 18826.72 (170.17%)
disk-961 6964.61 ( 0.00%) 18708.02 (168.62%)Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420573509-24774-7-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
We have two flavors of the MCS spinlock: standard and cancelable (OSQ).
While each one is independent of the other, we currently mix and match
them. This patch:- Moves the OSQ code out of mcs_spinlock.h (which only deals with the traditional
version) into include/linux/osq_lock.h. No unnecessary code is added to the
more global header file, anything locks that make use of OSQ must include
it anyway.- Renames mcs_spinlock.c to osq_lock.c. This file only contains osq code.
- Introduces a CONFIG_LOCK_SPIN_ON_OWNER in order to only build osq_lock
if there is support for it.Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Jason Low
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Mikulas Patocka
Cc: Waiman Long
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1420573509-24774-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar