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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2020-07-24 15:14:20 +0200
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2020-07-26 16:01:23 +0200
commitaa65ff6b18e0366db1790609956a4ac7308c5668 (patch)
tree98fe1ff898cadd1de9508cb6213750838b641289 /include/asm-generic
parentpowerpc: Move spinlock implementation to simple_spinlock (diff)
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powerpc/64s: Implement queued spinlocks and rwlocks
These have shown significantly improved performance and fairness when spinlock contention is moderate to high on very large systems. With this series including subsequent patches, on a 16 socket 1536 thread POWER9, a stress test such as same-file open/close from all CPUs gets big speedups, 11620op/s aggregate with simple spinlocks vs 384158op/s (33x faster), where the difference in throughput between the fastest and slowest thread goes from 7x to 1.4x. Thanks to the fast path being identical in terms of atomics and barriers (after a subsequent optimisation patch), single threaded performance is not changed (no measurable difference). On smaller systems, performance and fairness seems to be generally improved. Using dbench on tmpfs as a test (that starts to run into kernel spinlock contention), a 2-socket OpenPOWER POWER9 system was tested with bare metal and KVM guest configurations. Results can be found here: https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/305#issuecomment-663487453 Observations are: - Queued spinlocks are equal when contention is insignificant, as expected and as measured with microbenchmarks. - When there is contention, on bare metal queued spinlocks have better throughput and max latency at all points. - When virtualised, queued spinlocks are slightly worse approaching peak throughput, but significantly better throughput and max latency at all points beyond peak, until queued spinlock maximum latency rises when clients are 2x vCPUs. The regressions haven't been analysed very well yet, there are a lot of things that can be tuned, particularly the paravirtualised locking, but the numbers already look like a good net win even on relatively small systems. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200724131423.1362108-4-npiggin@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
index fde943d180e0..fb0a814d4395 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <asm-generic/qspinlock_types.h>
+#ifndef queued_spin_is_locked
/**
* queued_spin_is_locked - is the spinlock locked?
* @lock: Pointer to queued spinlock structure
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ static __always_inline int queued_spin_is_locked(struct qspinlock *lock)
*/
return atomic_read(&lock->val);
}
+#endif
/**
* queued_spin_value_unlocked - is the spinlock structure unlocked?