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authorWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>2015-06-19 11:50:01 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-07-06 14:11:28 +0200
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locking/qrwlock: Better optimization for interrupt context readers
The qrwlock is fair in the process context, but becoming unfair when in the interrupt context to support use cases like the tasklist_lock. The current code isn't that well-documented on what happens when in the interrupt context. The rspin_until_writer_unlock() will only spin if the writer has gotten the lock. If the writer is still in the waiting state, the increment in the reader count will cause the writer to remain in the waiting state and the new interrupt context reader will get the lock and return immediately. The current code, however, does an additional read of the lock value which is not necessary as the information has already been there in the fast path. This may sometime cause an additional cacheline transfer when the lock is highly contended. This patch passes the lock value information gotten in the fast path to the slow path to eliminate the additional read. It also documents the action for the interrupt context readers more clearly. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434729002-57724-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/qrwlock.c13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
index 49057d413b6e..d9c36c5f5711 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qrwlock.c
@@ -62,20 +62,21 @@ rspin_until_writer_unlock(struct qrwlock *lock, u32 cnts)
/**
* queued_read_lock_slowpath - acquire read lock of a queue rwlock
* @lock: Pointer to queue rwlock structure
+ * @cnts: Current qrwlock lock value
*/
-void queued_read_lock_slowpath(struct qrwlock *lock)
+void queued_read_lock_slowpath(struct qrwlock *lock, u32 cnts)
{
- u32 cnts;
-
/*
* Readers come here when they cannot get the lock without waiting
*/
if (unlikely(in_interrupt())) {
/*
- * Readers in interrupt context will spin until the lock is
- * available without waiting in the queue.
+ * Readers in interrupt context will get the lock immediately
+ * if the writer is just waiting (not holding the lock yet).
+ * The rspin_until_writer_unlock() function returns immediately
+ * in this case. Otherwise, they will spin until the lock
+ * is available without waiting in the queue.
*/
- cnts = smp_load_acquire((u32 *)&lock->cnts);
rspin_until_writer_unlock(lock, cnts);
return;
}