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linux/lib/rwsem.c
Davidlohr Bueso 9607a85b67 rwsem: check counter to avoid cmpxchg calls
This patch tries to reduce the amount of cmpxchg calls in the writer
failed path by checking the counter value first before issuing the
instruction.  If ->count is not set to RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS then there is
no point wasting a cmpxchg call.

Furthermore, Michel states "I suppose it helps due to the case where
someone else steals the lock while we're trying to acquire
sem->wait_lock."

Two very different workloads and machines were used to see how this
patch improves throughput: pgbench on a quad-core laptop and aim7 on a
large 8 socket box with 80 cores.

Some results comparing Michel's fast-path write lock stealing
(tps-rwsem) on a quad-core laptop running pgbench:

  | db_size | clients  |  tps-rwsem     |   tps-patch  |
  +---------+----------+----------------+--------------+
  | 160 MB   |       1 |           6906 |         9153 | + 32.5
  | 160 MB   |       2 |          15931 |        22487 | + 41.1%
  | 160 MB   |       4 |          33021 |        32503 |
  | 160 MB   |       8 |          34626 |        34695 |
  | 160 MB   |      16 |          33098 |        34003 |
  | 160 MB   |      20 |          31343 |        31440 |
  | 160 MB   |      30 |          28961 |        28987 |
  | 160 MB   |      40 |          26902 |        26970 |
  | 160 MB   |      50 |          25760 |        25810 |
  ------------------------------------------------------
  | 1.6 GB   |       1 |           7729 |         7537 |
  | 1.6 GB   |       2 |          19009 |        23508 | + 23.7%
  | 1.6 GB   |       4 |          33185 |        32666 |
  | 1.6 GB   |       8 |          34550 |        34318 |
  | 1.6 GB   |      16 |          33079 |        32689 |
  | 1.6 GB   |      20 |          31494 |        31702 |
  | 1.6 GB   |      30 |          28535 |        28755 |
  | 1.6 GB   |      40 |          27054 |        27017 |
  | 1.6 GB   |      50 |          25591 |        25560 |
  ------------------------------------------------------
  | 7.6 GB   |       1 |           6224 |         7469 | + 20.0%
  | 7.6 GB   |       2 |          13611 |        12778 |
  | 7.6 GB   |       4 |          33108 |        32927 |
  | 7.6 GB   |       8 |          34712 |        34878 |
  | 7.6 GB   |      16 |          32895 |        33003 |
  | 7.6 GB   |      20 |          31689 |        31974 |
  | 7.6 GB   |      30 |          29003 |        28806 |
  | 7.6 GB   |      40 |          26683 |        26976 |
  | 7.6 GB   |      50 |          25925 |        25652 |
  ------------------------------------------------------

For the aim7 worloads, they overall improved on top of Michel's
patchset.  For full graphs on how the rwsem series plus this patch
behaves on a large 8 socket machine against a vanilla kernel:

  http://stgolabs.net/rwsem-aim7-results.tar.gz

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-07 16:11:51 -07:00

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/* rwsem.c: R/W semaphores: contention handling functions
*
* Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com).
* Derived from arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
*
* Writer lock-stealing by Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
* and Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
*/
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
/*
* Initialize an rwsem:
*/
void __init_rwsem(struct rw_semaphore *sem, const char *name,
struct lock_class_key *key)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
/*
* Make sure we are not reinitializing a held semaphore:
*/
debug_check_no_locks_freed((void *)sem, sizeof(*sem));
lockdep_init_map(&sem->dep_map, name, key, 0);
#endif
sem->count = RWSEM_UNLOCKED_VALUE;
raw_spin_lock_init(&sem->wait_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sem->wait_list);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__init_rwsem);
enum rwsem_waiter_type {
RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE,
RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_READ
};
struct rwsem_waiter {
struct list_head list;
struct task_struct *task;
enum rwsem_waiter_type type;
};
enum rwsem_wake_type {
RWSEM_WAKE_ANY, /* Wake whatever's at head of wait list */
RWSEM_WAKE_READERS, /* Wake readers only */
RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED /* Waker thread holds the read lock */
};
/*
* handle the lock release when processes blocked on it that can now run
* - if we come here from up_xxxx(), then:
* - the 'active part' of count (&0x0000ffff) reached 0 (but may have changed)
* - the 'waiting part' of count (&0xffff0000) is -ve (and will still be so)
* - there must be someone on the queue
* - the spinlock must be held by the caller
* - woken process blocks are discarded from the list after having task zeroed
* - writers are only woken if downgrading is false
*/
static struct rw_semaphore *
__rwsem_do_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, enum rwsem_wake_type wake_type)
{
struct rwsem_waiter *waiter;
struct task_struct *tsk;
struct list_head *next;
long oldcount, woken, loop, adjustment;
waiter = list_entry(sem->wait_list.next, struct rwsem_waiter, list);
if (waiter->type == RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE) {
if (wake_type == RWSEM_WAKE_ANY)
/* Wake writer at the front of the queue, but do not
* grant it the lock yet as we want other writers
* to be able to steal it. Readers, on the other hand,
* will block as they will notice the queued writer.
*/
wake_up_process(waiter->task);
goto out;
}
/* Writers might steal the lock before we grant it to the next reader.
* We prefer to do the first reader grant before counting readers
* so we can bail out early if a writer stole the lock.
*/
adjustment = 0;
if (wake_type != RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED) {
adjustment = RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS;
try_reader_grant:
oldcount = rwsem_atomic_update(adjustment, sem) - adjustment;
if (unlikely(oldcount < RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)) {
/* A writer stole the lock. Undo our reader grant. */
if (rwsem_atomic_update(-adjustment, sem) &
RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK)
goto out;
/* Last active locker left. Retry waking readers. */
goto try_reader_grant;
}
}
/* Grant an infinite number of read locks to the readers at the front
* of the queue. Note we increment the 'active part' of the count by
* the number of readers before waking any processes up.
*/
woken = 0;
do {
woken++;
if (waiter->list.next == &sem->wait_list)
break;
waiter = list_entry(waiter->list.next,
struct rwsem_waiter, list);
} while (waiter->type != RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE);
adjustment = woken * RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS - adjustment;
if (waiter->type != RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE)
/* hit end of list above */
adjustment -= RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
if (adjustment)
rwsem_atomic_add(adjustment, sem);
next = sem->wait_list.next;
loop = woken;
do {
waiter = list_entry(next, struct rwsem_waiter, list);
next = waiter->list.next;
tsk = waiter->task;
smp_mb();
waiter->task = NULL;
wake_up_process(tsk);
put_task_struct(tsk);
} while (--loop);
sem->wait_list.next = next;
next->prev = &sem->wait_list;
out:
return sem;
}
/*
* wait for the read lock to be granted
*/
struct rw_semaphore __sched *rwsem_down_read_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
long count, adjustment = -RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS;
struct rwsem_waiter waiter;
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
/* set up my own style of waitqueue */
waiter.task = tsk;
waiter.type = RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_READ;
get_task_struct(tsk);
raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
adjustment += RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &sem->wait_list);
/* we're now waiting on the lock, but no longer actively locking */
count = rwsem_atomic_update(adjustment, sem);
/* If there are no active locks, wake the front queued process(es).
*
* If there are no writers and we are first in the queue,
* wake our own waiter to join the existing active readers !
*/
if (count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS ||
(count > RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS &&
adjustment != -RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS))
sem = __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_ANY);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
/* wait to be given the lock */
while (true) {
set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
if (!waiter.task)
break;
schedule();
}
tsk->state = TASK_RUNNING;
return sem;
}
/*
* wait until we successfully acquire the write lock
*/
struct rw_semaphore __sched *rwsem_down_write_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
long count, adjustment = -RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS;
struct rwsem_waiter waiter;
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
/* set up my own style of waitqueue */
waiter.task = tsk;
waiter.type = RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE;
raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
adjustment += RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &sem->wait_list);
/* we're now waiting on the lock, but no longer actively locking */
count = rwsem_atomic_update(adjustment, sem);
/* If there were already threads queued before us and there are no
* active writers, the lock must be read owned; so we try to wake
* any read locks that were queued ahead of us. */
if (count > RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS &&
adjustment == -RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS)
sem = __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_READERS);
/* wait until we successfully acquire the lock */
set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
while (true) {
if (!(count & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK)) {
/* Try acquiring the write lock. */
count = RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS;
if (!list_is_singular(&sem->wait_list))
count += RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
if (sem->count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS &&
cmpxchg(&sem->count, RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, count) ==
RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
break;
}
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
/* Block until there are no active lockers. */
do {
schedule();
set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
} while ((count = sem->count) & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK);
raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
}
list_del(&waiter.list);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
tsk->state = TASK_RUNNING;
return sem;
}
/*
* handle waking up a waiter on the semaphore
* - up_read/up_write has decremented the active part of count if we come here
*/
struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
unsigned long flags;
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
/* do nothing if list empty */
if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
sem = __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_ANY);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
return sem;
}
/*
* downgrade a write lock into a read lock
* - caller incremented waiting part of count and discovered it still negative
* - just wake up any readers at the front of the queue
*/
struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_downgrade_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
unsigned long flags;
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
/* do nothing if list empty */
if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
sem = __rwsem_do_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
return sem;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_down_read_failed);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_down_write_failed);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_wake);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_downgrade_wake);