From 4282494a20cdcaf38d553f2c2ff6f252084f979c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guo Ren Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 21:19:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] locking/qspinlock: Micro-optimize pending state waiting for unlock When we're pending, we only care about lock value. The xchg_tail wouldn't affect the pending state. That means the hardware thread could stay in a sleep state and leaves the rest execution units' resources of pipeline to other hardware threads. This situation is the SMT scenarios in the same core. Not an entering low-power state situation. Of course, the granularity between cores is "cacheline", but the granularity between SMT hw threads of the same core could be "byte" which internal LSU handles. For example, when a hw-thread yields the resources of the core to other hw-threads, this patch could help the hw-thread stay in the sleep state and prevent it from being woken up by other hw-threads xchg_tail. Signed-off-by: Guo Ren Signed-off-by: Guo Ren Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Waiman Long Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105021952.3090070-1-guoren@kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index 2b23378775fe..ebe6b8ec7cb3 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ void __lockfunc queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val) /* * We're pending, wait for the owner to go away. * - * 0,1,1 -> 0,1,0 + * 0,1,1 -> *,1,0 * * this wait loop must be a load-acquire such that we match the * store-release that clears the locked bit and create lock @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ void __lockfunc queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val) * barriers. */ if (val & _Q_LOCKED_MASK) - atomic_cond_read_acquire(&lock->val, !(VAL & _Q_LOCKED_MASK)); + smp_cond_load_acquire(&lock->locked, !VAL); /* * take ownership and clear the pending bit.