From 405963b6a57c60040bc1dad2597f7f4b897954d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Waiman Long Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 11:19:13 -0400 Subject: locking/qrwlock: Don't contend with readers when setting _QW_WAITING The current cmpxchg() loop in setting the _QW_WAITING flag for writers in queue_write_lock_slowpath() will contend with incoming readers causing possibly extra cmpxchg() operations that are wasteful. This patch changes the code to do a byte cmpxchg() to eliminate contention with new readers. A multithreaded microbenchmark running 5M read_lock/write_lock loop on a 8-socket 80-core Westmere-EX machine running 4.0 based kernel with the qspinlock patch have the following execution times (in ms) with and without the patch: With R:W ratio = 5:1 Threads w/o patch with patch % change ------- --------- ---------- -------- 2 990 895 -9.6% 3 2136 1912 -10.5% 4 3166 2830 -10.6% 5 3953 3629 -8.2% 6 4628 4405 -4.8% 7 5344 5197 -2.8% 8 6065 6004 -1.0% 9 6826 6811 -0.2% 10 7599 7599 0.0% 15 9757 9766 +0.1% 20 13767 13817 +0.4% With small number of contending threads, this patch can improve locking performance by up to 10%. With more contending threads, however, the gain diminishes. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Douglas Hatch Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Scott J Norton Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433863153-30722-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar diff --git a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c index 00c12bb..6c5da483 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c @@ -22,6 +22,26 @@ #include #include +/* + * This internal data structure is used for optimizing access to some of + * the subfields within the atomic_t cnts. + */ +struct __qrwlock { + union { + atomic_t cnts; + struct { +#ifdef __LITTLE_ENDIAN + u8 wmode; /* Writer mode */ + u8 rcnts[3]; /* Reader counts */ +#else + u8 rcnts[3]; /* Reader counts */ + u8 wmode; /* Writer mode */ +#endif + }; + }; + arch_spinlock_t lock; +}; + /** * rspin_until_writer_unlock - inc reader count & spin until writer is gone * @lock : Pointer to queue rwlock structure @@ -107,10 +127,10 @@ void queue_write_lock_slowpath(struct qrwlock *lock) * or wait for a previous writer to go away. */ for (;;) { - cnts = atomic_read(&lock->cnts); - if (!(cnts & _QW_WMASK) && - (atomic_cmpxchg(&lock->cnts, cnts, - cnts | _QW_WAITING) == cnts)) + struct __qrwlock *l = (struct __qrwlock *)lock; + + if (!READ_ONCE(l->wmode) && + (cmpxchg(&l->wmode, 0, _QW_WAITING) == 0)) break; cpu_relax_lowlatency(); -- cgit v0.10.2