linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] fast queue spinlocks

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Message-ID: <CANN689EN66sbBth9PeTSVwwYC9bbyX7QiwT_t+18JB7YRFjw3A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:17:54 -0800
From:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
To:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] fast queue spinlocks

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com> wrote:
> Additionally I will attach (as a reply to this email) graphs showing total
> spinlock throughput for a microbenchmark consisting of N threads doing
> lock/unlock operations in a tight loop. We can see that the proposed
> fast queue spinlock is comparable to ticket spinlocks for low number
> of threads, scales much better for high number of threads, and is always
> faster than the MCS strawman proposal (which did have the issue of being
> kinda slow at around 2-3 threads).
> mach1 is a 4 socket AMD Barcelona system (16 cores total)
> mach2 is a 2 socket Intel Westmere system (12 cores / 24 threads total)
> mach3 is a 2 socket Intel Sandybridge system (16 cores / 32 threads total)

Graphs are attached (admittedly not the most interesting benchmark).

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.

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