linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 3/4] locking/osq: Drop the overhead of osq

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Message-Id: <1469101514-49475-4-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:45:13 -0400
From:	Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel-request@...ts.xenproject.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, mpe@...erman.id.au,
	mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	will.deacon@....com, kernellwp@...il.com, jgross@...e.com,
	pbonzini@...hat.com, bsingharora@...il.com,
	Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 3/4] locking/osq: Drop the overhead of osq_lock()

An over-committed guest with more vCPUs than pCPUs has a heavy overhead in
osq_lock().

This is because vCPU A hold the osq lock and yield out, vCPU B wait per_cpu
node->locked to be set. IOW, vCPU B wait vCPU A to run and unlock the osq
lock.

Kernel has an interface bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu) to see if a vCPU is
currently running or not. So break the spin loops on true condition.

test case:
perf record -a perf bench sched messaging -g 400 -p && perf report

before patch:
18.09%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] osq_lock
12.28%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] rwsem_spin_on_owner
 5.27%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] mutex_unlock
 3.89%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] wait_consider_task
 3.64%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] _raw_write_lock_irq
 3.41%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] mutex_spin_on_owner.is
 2.49%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] system_call

after patch:
20.68%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
 8.45%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] mutex_unlock
 4.12%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] system_call
 3.01%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] system_call_common
 2.83%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] copypage_power7
 2.64%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] rwsem_spin_on_owner
 2.00%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] osq_lock

Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/locking/osq_lock.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
index 05a3785..858a0ed 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ static inline int encode_cpu(int cpu_nr)
 	return cpu_nr + 1;
 }
 
+static inline int node_cpu(struct optimistic_spin_node *node)
+{
+	return node->cpu - 1;
+}
+
 static inline struct optimistic_spin_node *decode_cpu(int encoded_cpu_val)
 {
 	int cpu_nr = encoded_cpu_val - 1;
@@ -118,8 +123,11 @@ bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock)
 	while (!READ_ONCE(node->locked)) {
 		/*
 		 * If we need to reschedule bail... so we can block.
+		 * Use vcpu_is_preempted to detech lock holder preemption issue
+		 * and break the loop. vcpu_is_preempted is a macro defined by
+		 * false if arch does not support vcpu preempted check,
 		 */
-		if (need_resched())
+		if (need_resched() || vcpu_is_preempted(node_cpu(node->prev)))
 			goto unqueue;
 
 		cpu_relax_lowlatency();
-- 
2.4.11