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2015-05-08locking/rwsem: Reduce spinlock contention in wakeup after up_read()/up_write()Waiman Long1-0/+44
In up_write()/up_read(), rwsem_wake() will be called whenever it detects that some writers/readers are waiting. The rwsem_wake() function will take the wait_lock and call __rwsem_do_wake() to do the real wakeup. For a heavily contended rwsem, doing a spin_lock() on wait_lock will cause further contention on the heavily contended rwsem cacheline resulting in delay in the completion of the up_read/up_write operations. This patch makes the wait_lock taking and the call to __rwsem_do_wake() optional if at least one spinning writer is present. The spinning writer will be able to take the rwsem and call rwsem_wake() later when it calls up_write(). With the presence of a spinning writer, rwsem_wake() will now try to acquire the lock using trylock. If that fails, it will just quit. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430428337-16802-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-03-07locking/rwsem: Fix lock optimistic spinning when owner is not runningJason Low1-20/+11
Ming reported soft lockups occurring when running xfstest due to the following tip:locking/core commit: b3fd4f03ca0b ("locking/rwsem: Avoid deceiving lock spinners") When doing optimistic spinning in rwsem, threads should stop spinning when the lock owner is not running. While a thread is spinning on owner, if the owner reschedules, owner->on_cpu returns false and we stop spinning. However, this commit essentially caused the check to get ignored because when we break out of the spin loop due to !on_cpu, we continue spinning if sem->owner != NULL. This patch fixes this by making sure we stop spinning if the owner is not running. Furthermore, just like with mutexes, refactor the code such that we don't have separate checks for owner_running(). This makes it more straightforward in terms of why we exit the spin on owner loop and we would also avoid needing to "guess" why we broke out of the loop to make this more readable. Reported-and-tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425714331.2475.388.camel@j-VirtualBox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-24locking: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() usageDavidlohr Bueso1-5/+5
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 <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424662301.6539.18.camel@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-18locking/rwsem: Check for active lock before bailing on spinningDavidlohr Bueso1-10/+17
37e9562453b ("locking/rwsem: Allow conservative optimistic spinning when readers have lock") forced the default for optimistic spinning to be disabled if the lock owner was nil, which makes much sense for readers. However, while it is not our priority, we can make some optimizations for write-mostly workloads. We can bail the spinning step and still be conservative if there are any active tasks, otherwise there's really no reason not to spin, as the semaphore is most likely unlocked. This patch recovers most of a Unixbench 'execl' benchmark throughput by sleeping less and making better average system usage: before: CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle all 0.60 0.00 8.02 0.00 0.00 91.38 after: CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle all 1.22 0.00 70.18 0.00 0.00 28.60 Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422609267-15102-6-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-18locking/rwsem: Avoid deceiving lock spinnersDavidlohr Bueso1-6/+15
When readers hold the semaphore, the ->owner is nil. As such, and unlike mutexes, '!owner' does not necessarily imply that the lock is free. This will cause writers to potentially spin excessively as they've been mislead to thinking they have a chance of acquiring the lock, instead of blocking. This patch therefore enhances the counter check when the owner is not set by the time we've broken out of the loop. Otherwise we can return true as a new owner has the lock and thus we want to continue spinning. While at it, we can make rwsem_spin_on_owner() less ambiguos and return right away under need_resched conditions. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422609267-15102-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-18locking/rwsem: Set lock ownership ASAPDavidlohr Bueso1-2/+6
In order to optimize the spinning step, we need to set the lock owner as soon as the lock is acquired; after a successful counter cmpxchg operation, that is. This is particularly useful as rwsems need to set the owner to nil for readers, so there is a greater chance of falling out of the spinning. Currently we only set the owner much later in the game, in the more generic level -- latency can be specially bad when waiting for a node->next pointer when releasing the osq in up_write calls. As such, update the owner inside rwsem_try_write_lock (when the lock is obtained after blocking) and rwsem_try_write_lock_unqueued (when the lock is obtained while spinning). This requires creating a new internal rwsem.h header to share the owner related calls. Also cleanup some headers for mutex and rwsem. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422609267-15102-4-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-18locking/rwsem: Document barrier need when waking tasksDavidlohr Bueso1-0/+7
The need for the smp_mb() in __rwsem_do_wake() should be properly documented. Applies to both xadd and spinlock variants. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422609267-15102-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-02-04locking/rwsem: Use task->state helpersDavidlohr Bueso1-2/+1
Call __set_task_state() instead of assigning the new state directly. These interfaces also aid CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP environments, keeping track of who last changed the state. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422257769-14083-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-10-03locking/rwsem: Avoid double checking before try acquiring write lockJason Low1-9/+11
Commit 9b0fc9c09f1b ("rwsem: skip initial trylock in rwsem_down_write_failed") checks for if there are known active lockers in order to avoid write trylocking using expensive cmpxchg() when it likely wouldn't get the lock. However, a subsequent patch was added such that we directly check for sem->count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS right before trying that cmpxchg(). Thus, commit 9b0fc9c09f1b now just adds overhead. This patch modifies it so that we only do a check for if count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS. Also, add a comment on why we do an "extra check" of count before the cmpxchg(). Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410913017.2447.22.camel@j-VirtualBox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-09-16locking/rwsem: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL() lines to follow function definitionDavidlohr Bueso1-4/+3
rw-semaphore is the only type of lock doing this ugliness of exporting at the end of the file. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: dave@stgolabs.net Cc: peterz@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410500066-5909-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-17arch, locking: Ciao arch_mutex_cpu_relax()Davidlohr Bueso1-2/+2
The arch_mutex_cpu_relax() function, introduced by 34b133f, is hacky and ugly. It was added a few years ago to address the fact that common cpu_relax() calls include yielding on s390, and thus impact the optimistic spinning functionality of mutexes. Nowadays we use this function well beyond mutexes: rwsem, qrwlock, mcs and lockref. Since the macro that defines the call is in the mutex header, any users must include mutex.h and the naming is misleading as well. This patch (i) renames the call to cpu_relax_lowlatency ("relax, but only if you can do it with very low latency") and (ii) defines it in each arch's asm/processor.h local header, just like for regular cpu_relax functions. On all archs, except s390, cpu_relax_lowlatency is simply cpu_relax, and thus we can take it out of mutex.h. While this can seem redundant, I believe it is a good choice as it allows us to move out arch specific logic from generic locking primitives and enables future(?) archs to transparently define it, similarly to System Z. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Bharat Bhushan <r65777@freescale.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com> Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Steven Miao <realmz6@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> Cc: adi-buildroot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-am33-list@redhat.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net Cc: linux-m32r-ja@ml.linux-m32r.org Cc: linux-m32r@ml.linux-m32r.org Cc: linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404079773.2619.4.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-16locking/rwsem: Add CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNERDavidlohr Bueso1-2/+2
Just like with mutexes (CONFIG_MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER), encapsulate the dependencies for rwsem optimistic spinning. No logical changes here as it continues to depend on both SMP and the XADD algorithm variant. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> [ Also make it depend on ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1405112406-13052-2-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-16locking/spinlocks/mcs: Introduce and use init macro and function for osq locksJason Low1-1/+1
Currently, we initialize the osq lock by directly setting the lock's values. It would be preferable if we use an init macro to do the initialization like we do with other locks. This patch introduces and uses a macro and function for initializing the osq lock. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1405358872-3732-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-16locking/spinlocks/mcs: Convert osq lock to atomic_t to reduce overheadJason Low1-1/+1
The cancellable MCS spinlock is currently used to queue threads that are doing optimistic spinning. It uses per-cpu nodes, where a thread obtaining the lock would access and queue the local node corresponding to the CPU that it's running on. Currently, the cancellable MCS lock is implemented by using pointers to these nodes. In this patch, instead of operating on pointers to the per-cpu nodes, we store the CPU numbers in which the per-cpu nodes correspond to in atomic_t. A similar concept is used with the qspinlock. By operating on the CPU # of the nodes using atomic_t instead of pointers to those nodes, this can reduce the overhead of the cancellable MCS spinlock by 32 bits (on 64 bit systems). Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1405358872-3732-3-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-07-16locking/rwsem: Allow conservative optimistic spinning when readers have lockJason Low1-5/+5
Commit 4fc828e24cd9 ("locking/rwsem: Support optimistic spinning") introduced a major performance regression for workloads such as xfs_repair which mix read and write locking of the mmap_sem across many threads. The result was xfs_repair ran 5x slower on 3.16-rc2 than on 3.15 and using 20x more system CPU time. Perf profiles indicate in some workloads that significant time can be spent spinning on !owner. This is because we don't set the lock owner when readers(s) obtain the rwsem. In this patch, we'll modify rwsem_can_spin_on_owner() such that we'll return false if there is no lock owner. The rationale is that if we just entered the slowpath, yet there is no lock owner, then there is a possibility that a reader has the lock. To be conservative, we'll avoid spinning in these situations. This patch reduced the total run time of the xfs_repair workload from about 4 minutes 24 seconds down to approximately 1 minute 26 seconds, back to close to the same performance as on 3.15. Retesting of AIM7, which were some of the workloads used to test the original optimistic spinning code, confirmed that we still get big performance gains with optimistic spinning, even with this additional regression fix. Davidlohr found that while the 'custom' workload took a performance hit of ~-14% to throughput for >300 users with this additional patch, the overall gain with optimistic spinning is still ~+45%. The 'disk' workload even improved by ~+15% at >1000 users. Tested-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1404532172.2572.30.camel@j-VirtualBox Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-06-05locking/rwsem: Fix checkpatch.pl warningsAndrew Morton1-3/+3
WARNING: line over 80 characters #205: FILE: kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c:275: + old = cmpxchg(&sem->count, count, count + RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS); WARNING: line over 80 characters #376: FILE: kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c:434: + * If there were already threads queued before us and there are no WARNING: line over 80 characters #377: FILE: kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c:435: + * active writers, the lock must be read owned; so we try to wake total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 417 lines checked Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pn6pslaplw031lykweojsn8c@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-06-05locking/rwsem: Support optimistic spinningDavidlohr Bueso1-29/+196
We have reached the point where our mutexes are quite fine tuned for a number of situations. This includes the use of heuristics and optimistic spinning, based on MCS locking techniques. Exclusive ownership of read-write semaphores are, conceptually, just about the same as mutexes, making them close cousins. To this end we need to make them both perform similarly, and right now, rwsems are simply not up to it. This was discovered by both reverting commit 4fc3f1d6 (mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable) and similarly, converting some other mutexes (ie: i_mmap_mutex) to rwsems. This creates a situation where users have to choose between a rwsem and mutex taking into account this important performance difference. Specifically, biggest difference between both locks is when we fail to acquire a mutex in the fastpath, optimistic spinning comes in to play and we can avoid a large amount of unnecessary sleeping and overhead of moving tasks in and out of wait queue. Rwsems do not have such logic. This patch, based on the work from Tim Chen and I, adds support for write-side optimistic spinning when the lock is contended. It also includes support for the recently added cancelable MCS locking for adaptive spinning. Note that is is only applicable to the xadd method, and the spinlock rwsem variant remains intact. Allowing optimistic spinning before putting the writer on the wait queue reduces wait queue contention and provided greater chance for the rwsem to get acquired. With these changes, rwsem is on par with mutex. The performance benefits can be seen on a number of workloads. For instance, on a 8 socket, 80 core 64bit Westmere box, aim7 shows the following improvements in throughput: +--------------+---------------------+-----------------+ | Workload | throughput-increase | number of users | +--------------+---------------------+-----------------+ | alltests | 20% | >1000 | | custom | 27%, 60% | 10-100, >1000 | | high_systime | 36%, 30% | >100, >1000 | | shared | 58%, 29% | 10-100, >1000 | +--------------+---------------------+-----------------+ There was also improvement on smaller systems, such as a quad-core x86-64 laptop running a 30Gb PostgreSQL (pgbench) workload for up to +60% in throughput for over 50 clients. Additionally, benefits were also noticed in exim (mail server) workloads. Furthermore, no performance regression have been seen at all. Based-on-work-from: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> [peterz: rej fixup due to comment patches, sched/rt.h header] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: "Paul E.McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "Scott J Norton" <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399055055.6275.15.camel@buesod1.americas.hpqcorp.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-05-04rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count fieldTim Chen1-0/+49
It took me quite a while to understand how rwsem's count field mainifested itself in different scenarios. Add comments to provide a quick reference to the the rwsem's count field for each scenario where readers and writers are contending for the lock. Hopefully it will be useful for future maintenance of the code and for people to get up to speed on how the logic in the code works. Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399060437.2970.146.camel@schen9-DESK Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-14asmlinkage: Mark rwsem functions that can be called from assembler asmlinkageAndi Kleen1-0/+4
Mark the rwsem functions that can be called from assembler asmlinkage. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391845930-28580-9-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-11-06locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/Peter Zijlstra1-0/+293
Notably: changed lib/rwsem* targets from lib- to obj-, no idea about the ramifications of that. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-g0kynfh5feriwc6p3h6kpbw6@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>