linux-stable/kernel/locking
Waiman Long 91d2a812df locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner
When the handoff bit is set by a writer, no other tasks other than
the setting writer itself is allowed to acquire the lock. If the
to-be-handoff'ed writer goes to sleep, there will be a wakeup latency
period where the lock is free, but no one can acquire it. That is less
than ideal.

To reduce that latency, the handoff writer will now optimistically spin
on the owner if it happens to be a on-cpu writer. It will spin until
it releases the lock and the to-be-handoff'ed writer can then acquire
the lock immediately without any delay. Of course, if the owner is not
a on-cpu writer, the to-be-handoff'ed writer will have to sleep anyway.

The optimistic spinning code is also modified to not stop spinning
when the handoff bit is set. This will prevent an occasional setting of
handoff bit from causing a bunch of optimistic spinners from entering
into the wait queue causing significant reduction in throughput.

On a 1-socket 22-core 44-thread Skylake system, the AIM7 shared_memory
workload was run with 7000 users. The throughput (jobs/min) of the
following kernels were as follows:

 1) 5.2-rc6
    - 8,092,486
 2) 5.2-rc6 + tip's rwsem patches
    - 7,567,568
 3) 5.2-rc6 + tip's rwsem patches + this patch
    - 7,954,545

Using perf-record(1), the %cpu time used by rwsem_down_write_slowpath(),
rwsem_down_write_failed() and their callees for the 3 kernels were 1.70%,
5.46% and 2.08% respectively.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625143913.24154-1-longman@redhat.com
2019-08-06 12:49:15 +02:00
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lock_events.c locking/lock_events: Don't show pvqspinlock events on bare metal 2019-04-10 10:56:05 +02:00
lock_events.h locking/lock_events: Use raw_cpu_{add,inc}() for stats 2019-06-03 12:32:56 +02:00
lock_events_list.h locking/rwsem: Adaptive disabling of reader optimistic spinning 2019-06-17 12:28:09 +02:00
lockdep.c locking/lockdep: Report more stack trace statistics 2019-07-25 15:43:28 +02:00
lockdep_internals.h locking/lockdep: Report more stack trace statistics 2019-07-25 15:43:28 +02:00
lockdep_proc.c locking/lockdep: Report more stack trace statistics 2019-07-25 15:43:28 +02:00
lockdep_states.h locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation 2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
locktorture.c torture: Allow inter-stutter interval to be specified 2019-05-28 09:06:09 -07:00
Makefile locking/rwsem: Merge rwsem.h and rwsem-xadd.c into rwsem.c 2019-06-17 12:27:57 +02:00
mcs_spinlock.h locking/mcs: Use smp_cond_load_acquire() in MCS spin loop 2018-04-27 09:48:49 +02:00
mutex-debug.c locking/mutex: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep 2018-11-12 09:06:22 -08:00
mutex-debug.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mutex.c locking/mutex: Test for initialized mutex 2019-07-25 15:39:27 +02:00
mutex.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
osq_lock.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
percpu-rwsem.c Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2019-06-28 19:46:47 +02:00
qrwlock.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157 2019-05-30 11:26:37 -07:00
qspinlock.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157 2019-05-30 11:26:37 -07:00
qspinlock_paravirt.h locking/qspinlock_stat: Introduce generic lockevent_*() counting APIs 2019-04-10 10:56:03 +02:00
qspinlock_stat.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157 2019-05-30 11:26:37 -07:00
rtmutex-debug.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rtmutex.c docs: locking: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-07-15 08:53:27 -03:00
rtmutex.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rtmutex_common.h locking/rtmutex: Handle non enqueued waiters gracefully in remove_waiter() 2018-03-28 23:01:30 +02:00
rwsem.c locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner 2019-08-06 12:49:15 +02:00
rwsem.h locking/rwsem: Merge rwsem.h and rwsem-xadd.c into rwsem.c 2019-06-17 12:27:57 +02:00
semaphore.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 436 2019-06-05 17:37:17 +02:00
spinlock.c asm-generic/mmiowb: Add generic implementation of mmiowb() tracking 2019-04-08 11:59:39 +01:00
spinlock_debug.c mmiowb: Hook up mmiowb helpers to spinlocks and generic I/O accessors 2019-04-08 11:59:47 +01:00
test-ww_mutex.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 9 2019-05-21 11:28:40 +02:00