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authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>2017-08-14 23:07:02 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-08-29 16:14:38 +0300
commit34d54f3d6917f519693dbe873ee59cd06fb515ed (patch)
tree741e660fcb817109ba014b270315cc150d9a9e7c /kernel/locking
parent966a967116e699762dbf4af7f9e0d1955c25aa37 (diff)
downloadlinux-34d54f3d6917f519693dbe873ee59cd06fb515ed.tar.xz
locking/pvqspinlock: Relax cmpxchg's to improve performance on some architectures
All the locking related cmpxchg's in the following functions are replaced with the _acquire variants: - pv_queued_spin_steal_lock() - trylock_clear_pending() This change should help performance on architectures that use LL/SC. The cmpxchg in pv_kick_node() is replaced with a relaxed version with explicit memory barrier to make sure that it is fully ordered in the writing of next->lock and the reading of pn->state whether the cmpxchg is a success or failure without affecting performance in non-LL/SC architectures. On a 2-socket 12-core 96-thread Power8 system with pvqspinlock explicitly enabled, the performance of a locking microbenchmark with and without this patch on a 4.13-rc4 kernel with Xinhui's PPC qspinlock patch were as follows: # of thread w/o patch with patch % Change ----------- --------- ---------- -------- 8 5054.8 Mop/s 5209.4 Mop/s +3.1% 16 3985.0 Mop/s 4015.0 Mop/s +0.8% 32 2378.2 Mop/s 2396.0 Mop/s +0.7% Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pan Xinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502741222-24360-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h24
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
index 4ccfcaae5b89..43555681c40b 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static inline bool pv_queued_spin_steal_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;
if (!(atomic_read(&lock->val) & _Q_LOCKED_PENDING_MASK) &&
- (cmpxchg(&l->locked, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == 0)) {
+ (cmpxchg_acquire(&l->locked, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == 0)) {
qstat_inc(qstat_pv_lock_stealing, true);
return true;
}
@@ -101,16 +101,16 @@ static __always_inline void clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
/*
* The pending bit check in pv_queued_spin_steal_lock() isn't a memory
- * barrier. Therefore, an atomic cmpxchg() is used to acquire the lock
- * just to be sure that it will get it.
+ * barrier. Therefore, an atomic cmpxchg_acquire() is used to acquire the
+ * lock just to be sure that it will get it.
*/
static __always_inline int trylock_clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
{
struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;
return !READ_ONCE(l->locked) &&
- (cmpxchg(&l->locked_pending, _Q_PENDING_VAL, _Q_LOCKED_VAL)
- == _Q_PENDING_VAL);
+ (cmpxchg_acquire(&l->locked_pending, _Q_PENDING_VAL,
+ _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == _Q_PENDING_VAL);
}
#else /* _Q_PENDING_BITS == 8 */
static __always_inline void set_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ static __always_inline int trylock_clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
*/
old = val;
new = (val & ~_Q_PENDING_MASK) | _Q_LOCKED_VAL;
- val = atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->val, old, new);
+ val = atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->val, old, new);
if (val == old)
return 1;
@@ -362,8 +362,18 @@ static void pv_kick_node(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
* observe its next->locked value and advance itself.
*
* Matches with smp_store_mb() and cmpxchg() in pv_wait_node()
+ *
+ * The write to next->locked in arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended()
+ * must be ordered before the read of pn->state in the cmpxchg()
+ * below for the code to work correctly. To guarantee full ordering
+ * irrespective of the success or failure of the cmpxchg(),
+ * a relaxed version with explicit barrier is used. The control
+ * dependency will order the reading of pn->state before any
+ * subsequent writes.
*/
- if (cmpxchg(&pn->state, vcpu_halted, vcpu_hashed) != vcpu_halted)
+ smp_mb__before_atomic();
+ if (cmpxchg_relaxed(&pn->state, vcpu_halted, vcpu_hashed)
+ != vcpu_halted)
return;
/*