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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-05-24 11:12:58 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2011-05-24 12:10:51 +0200
commit8af088710d1eb3c980e0ef3779c8d47f3f217b48 (patch)
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posix-timers: RCU conversion
Ben Nagy reported a scalability problem with KVM/QEMU that hit very hard a single spinlock (idr_lock) in posix-timers code, on its 48 core machine. Even on a 16 cpu machine (2x4x2), a single test can show 98% of cpu time used in ticket_spin_lock, from lock_timer Ref: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg51526.html Switching to RCU is quite easy, IDR being already RCU ready. idr_lock should be locked only for an insert/delete, not a lookup. Benchmark on a 2x4x2 machine, 16 processes calling timer_gettime(). Before : real 1m18.669s user 0m1.346s sys 1m17.180s After : real 0m3.296s user 0m1.366s sys 0m1.926s Reported-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/posix-timers.c25
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c
index a1b5edf1bf92..4556182527f3 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c
@@ -491,6 +491,13 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void)
return tmr;
}
+static void k_itimer_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+ struct k_itimer *tmr = container_of(head, struct k_itimer, it.rcu);
+
+ kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr);
+}
+
#define IT_ID_SET 1
#define IT_ID_NOT_SET 0
static void release_posix_timer(struct k_itimer *tmr, int it_id_set)
@@ -503,7 +510,7 @@ static void release_posix_timer(struct k_itimer *tmr, int it_id_set)
}
put_pid(tmr->it_pid);
sigqueue_free(tmr->sigq);
- kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr);
+ call_rcu(&tmr->it.rcu, k_itimer_rcu_free);
}
static struct k_clock *clockid_to_kclock(const clockid_t id)
@@ -631,22 +638,18 @@ out:
static struct k_itimer *__lock_timer(timer_t timer_id, unsigned long *flags)
{
struct k_itimer *timr;
- /*
- * Watch out here. We do a irqsave on the idr_lock and pass the
- * flags part over to the timer lock. Must not let interrupts in
- * while we are moving the lock.
- */
- spin_lock_irqsave(&idr_lock, *flags);
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
timr = idr_find(&posix_timers_id, (int)timer_id);
if (timr) {
- spin_lock(&timr->it_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&timr->it_lock, *flags);
if (timr->it_signal == current->signal) {
- spin_unlock(&idr_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return timr;
}
- spin_unlock(&timr->it_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timr->it_lock, *flags);
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idr_lock, *flags);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return NULL;
}