linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] locking/qspinlock_stat: Track the no MCS node available case

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Date:   Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:04:05 -0500
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        SRINIVAS <srinivas.eeda@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] locking/qspinlock_stat: Track the no MCS node
 available case

On 01/23/2019 04:23 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:49:09PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>> Track the number of slowpath locking operations that are being done
>> without any MCS node available as well renaming lock_index[123] to make
>> them more descriptive.
>>
>> Using these stat counters is one way to find out if a code path is
>> being exercised.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
>> ---
>>  kernel/locking/qspinlock.c      |  3 ++-
>>  kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h | 21 +++++++++++++++------
>>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
>> index 0875053..21ee51b 100644
>> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
>> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
>> @@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
>>  	 * simple enough.
>>  	 */
>>  	if (unlikely(idx >= MAX_NODES)) {
>> +		qstat_inc(qstat_lock_no_node, true);
>>  		while (!queued_spin_trylock(lock))
>>  			cpu_relax();
>>  		goto release;
>> @@ -432,7 +433,7 @@ void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
>>  	/*
>>  	 * Keep counts of non-zero index values:
>>  	 */
>> -	qstat_inc(qstat_lock_idx1 + idx - 1, idx);
>> +	qstat_inc(qstat_lock_use_node2 + idx - 1, idx);
>>  
>>  	/*
>>  	 * Ensure that we increment the head node->count before initialising
>> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h
>> index 42d3d8d..31728f6 100644
>> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h
>> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h
>> @@ -30,6 +30,13 @@
>>   *   pv_wait_node	- # of vCPU wait's at a non-head queue node
>>   *   lock_pending	- # of locking operations via pending code
>>   *   lock_slowpath	- # of locking operations via MCS lock queue
>> + *   lock_use_node2	- # of locking operations that use 2nd percpu node
>> + *   lock_use_node3	- # of locking operations that use 3rd percpu node
>> + *   lock_use_node4	- # of locking operations that use 4th percpu node
>> + *   lock_no_node	- # of locking operations without using percpu node
>> + *
>> + * Subtraccting lock_use_node[234] from lock_slowpath will give you
>> + * lock_use_node1.
> Typo: "subtraccting"
>
> Will

Thanks for catching that.

Cheers,
Longman