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Mateusz Guzik f5fe24ef17 lockref: stop doing cpu_relax in the cmpxchg loop 
On the x86-64 architecture even a failing cmpxchg grants exclusive
access to the cacheline, making it preferable to retry the failed op
immediately instead of stalling with the pause instruction.

To illustrate the impact, below are benchmark results obtained by
running various will-it-scale tests on top of the 6.2-rc3 kernel and
Cascade Lake (2 sockets * 24 cores * 2 threads) CPU.

All results in ops/s.  Note there is some variance in re-runs, but the
code is consistently faster when contention is present.

  open3 ("Same file open/close"):
  proc          stock       no-pause
     1         805603         814942       (+%1)
     2        1054980        1054781       (-0%)
     8        1544802        1822858      (+18%)
    24        1191064        2199665      (+84%)
    48         851582        1469860      (+72%)
    96         609481        1427170     (+134%)

  fstat2 ("Same file fstat"):
  proc          stock       no-pause
     1        3013872        3047636       (+1%)
     2        4284687        4400421       (+2%)
     8        3257721        5530156      (+69%)
    24        2239819        5466127     (+144%)
    48        1701072        5256609     (+209%)
    96        1269157        6649326     (+423%)

Additionally, a kernel with a private patch to help access() scalability:
access2 ("Same file access"):

  proc          stock        patched      patched
                                         +nopause
    24        2378041        2005501      5370335  (-15% / +125%)

That is, fixing the problems in access itself *reduces* scalability
after the cacheline ping-pong only happens in lockref with the pause
instruction.

Note that fstat and access benchmarks are not currently integrated into
will-it-scale, but interested parties can find them in pull requests to
said project.

Code at hand has a rather tortured history.  First modification showed
up in commit d472d9d98b ("lockref: Relax in cmpxchg loop"), written
with Itanium in mind.  Later it got patched up to use an arch-dependent
macro to stop doing it on s390 where it caused a significant regression.
Said macro had undergone revisions and was ultimately eliminated later,
going back to cpu_relax.

While I intended to only remove cpu_relax for x86-64, I got the
following comment from Linus:

    I would actually prefer just removing it entirely and see if
    somebody else hollers. You have the numbers to prove it hurts on
    real hardware, and I don't think we have any numbers to the
    contrary.

    So I think it's better to trust the numbers and remove it as a
    failure, than say "let's just remove it on x86-64 and leave
    everybody else with the potentially broken code"

Additionally, Will Deacon (maintainer of the arm64 port, one of the
architectures previously benchmarked):

    So, from the arm64 side of the fence, I'm perfectly happy just
    removing the cpu_relax() calls from lockref.

As such, come back full circle in history and whack it altogether.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAGudoHHx0Nqg6DE70zAVA75eV-HXfWyhVMWZ-aSeOofkA_=WdA@mail.gmail.com/
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> # ia64
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> # powerpc
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> # arm64
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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