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Message-ID: <20130624084645.GL28407@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:46:45 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>,
Matthew R Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] rwsem: do optimistic spinning for writer lock
acquisition
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 04:51:40PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> Introduce in this patch optimistic spinning for writer lock
> acquisition in read write semaphore. The logic is
> similar to the optimistic spinning in mutex but without
> the MCS lock queueing of the spinner. This provides a
> better chance for a writer to acquire the lock before
> being we block it and put it to sleep.
>
> Disabling of pre-emption during optimistic spinning
> was suggested by Davidlohr Bueso. It
> improved performance of aim7 for his test suite.
>
> Combined with the patch to avoid unnecesary cmpxchg,
> in testing by Davidlohr Bueso on aim7 workloads
> on 8 socket 80 cores system, he saw improvements of
> alltests (+14.5%), custom (+17%), disk (+11%), high_systime
> (+5%), shared (+15%) and short (+4%), most of them after around 500
> users when he implemented i_mmap as rwsem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
> Makefile | 2 +-
> include/linux/rwsem.h | 3 +
> init/Kconfig | 9 +++
> kernel/rwsem.c | 29 +++++++++-
> lib/rwsem.c | 148 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 5 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 49aa84b..7d1ef64 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> VERSION = 3
> PATCHLEVEL = 10
> SUBLEVEL = 0
> -EXTRAVERSION = -rc4
> +EXTRAVERSION = -rc4-optspin4
> NAME = Unicycling Gorilla
>
> # *DOCUMENTATION*
I'm fairly sure we don't want to commit this hunk ;-)
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