linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.0 016/220] sched/idle/x86: Optimize unnecessary mwait

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Message-Id: <20150502185855.081844017@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Sat,  2 May 2015 20:58:51 +0200
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ian Malone <ibmalone@...il.com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.0 016/220] sched/idle/x86: Optimize unnecessary mwait_idle() resched IPIs

4.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>

commit f8e617f4582995f7c25ef25b4167213120ad122b upstream.

To fully take advantage of MWAIT, apparently the CLFLUSH instruction needs
another quirk on certain CPUs: proper barriers around it on certain machines.

On a Q6600 SMP system, pipe-test scheduling performance, cross core,
improves significantly:

  3.8.13                   487.2 KHz    1.000
  3.13.0-master            415.5 KHz     .852
  3.13.0-master+           415.2 KHz     .852     + restore mwait_idle
  3.13.0-master++          488.5 KHz    1.002     + restore mwait_idle + IPI fix

Since X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR is already a quirk, don't create a separate
quirk for the extra smp_mb()s.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@...ine.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Ian Malone <ibmalone@...il.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390061684.5566.4.camel@marge.simpson.net
[ Ported to recent kernel, added comments about the quirk. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -429,18 +429,22 @@ static int prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt(con

 static void mwait_idle(void)
 {
-	if (!need_resched()) {
-		if (this_cpu_has(X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR))
+	if (!current_set_polling_and_test()) {
+		if (this_cpu_has(X86_BUG_CLFLUSH_MONITOR)) {
+			smp_mb(); /* quirk */
 			clflush((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags);
+			smp_mb(); /* quirk */
+		}

 		__monitor((void *)&current_thread_info()->flags, 0, 0);
-		smp_mb();
 		if (!need_resched())
 			__sti_mwait(0, 0);
 		else
 			local_irq_enable();
-	} else
+	} else {
 		local_irq_enable();
+	}
+	__current_clr_polling();
 }

 void select_idle_routine(const struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)

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