linux-stable/kernel/locking
Waiman Long d3681e269f locking/rwsem: Wake up almost all readers in wait queue
When the front of the wait queue is a reader, other readers
immediately following the first reader will also be woken up at the
same time. However, if there is a writer in between. Those readers
behind the writer will not be woken up.

Because of optimistic spinning, the lock acquisition order is not FIFO
anyway. The lock handoff mechanism will ensure that lock starvation
will not happen.

Assuming that the lock hold times of the other readers still in the
queue will be about the same as the readers that are being woken up,
there is really not much additional cost other than the additional
latency due to the wakeup of additional tasks by the waker. Therefore
all the readers up to a maximum of 256 in the queue are woken up when
the first waiter is a reader to improve reader throughput. This is
somewhat similar in concept to a phase-fair R/W lock.

With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the total
locking rates (in kops/s) on a 8-socket IvyBridge-EX system with
equal numbers of readers and writers before and after this patch were
as follows:

   # of Threads  Pre-Patch   Post-patch
   ------------  ---------   ----------
        4          1,641        1,674
        8            731        1,062
       16            564          924
       32             78          300
       64             38          195
      240             50          149

There is no performance gain at low contention level. At high contention
level, however, this patch gives a pretty decent performance boost.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-11-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-06-17 12:28:02 +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: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation 2019-06-17 12:27:59 +02:00
lockdep.c locking/lockdep: Remove unnecessary DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON() 2019-06-17 12:09:37 +02:00
lockdep_internals.h locking/lockdep: Test all incompatible scenarios at once in check_irq_usage() 2019-04-29 08:29:20 +02:00
lockdep_proc.c locking/lockdep: Introduce lockdep_next_lockchain() and lock_chain_count() 2019-02-28 07:55:44 +01:00
lockdep_states.h locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation 2017-08-10 12:29:03 +02:00
locktorture.c locktorture: NULL cxt.lwsa and cxt.lrsa to allow bad-arg detection 2019-03-26 14:42:53 -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 treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files 2019-05-21 10:50:45 +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 treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files 2019-05-21 10:50:45 +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 treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files 2019-05-21 10:50:45 +02:00
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: Wake up almost all readers in wait queue 2019-06-17 12:28:02 +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