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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2013-08-09 19:51:49 +0530
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2013-08-09 07:53:05 -0700
commit545ac13892ab391049a92108cf59a0d05de7e28c (patch)
treee993b90bcbedd44b77c895cf7fcee89ee5fe9d51 /arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c
parentc095ba7224d8edc71dcef0d655911399a8bd4a3f (diff)
x86, spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks
Rather than outright replacing the entire spinlock implementation in order to paravirtualize it, keep the ticket lock implementation but add a couple of pvops hooks on the slow patch (long spin on lock, unlocking a contended lock). Ticket locks have a number of nice properties, but they also have some surprising behaviours in virtual environments. They enforce a strict FIFO ordering on cpus trying to take a lock; however, if the hypervisor scheduler does not schedule the cpus in the correct order, the system can waste a huge amount of time spinning until the next cpu can take the lock. (See Thomas Friebel's talk "Prevent Guests from Spinning Around" http://www.xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf for more details.) To address this, we add two hooks: - __ticket_spin_lock which is called after the cpu has been spinning on the lock for a significant number of iterations but has failed to take the lock (presumably because the cpu holding the lock has been descheduled). The lock_spinning pvop is expected to block the cpu until it has been kicked by the current lock holder. - __ticket_spin_unlock, which on releasing a contended lock (there are more cpus with tail tickets), it looks to see if the next cpu is blocked and wakes it if so. When compiled with CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS disabled, a set of stub functions causes all the extra code to go away. Results: ======= setup: 32 core machine with 32 vcpu KVM guest (HT off) with 8GB RAM base = 3.11-rc patched = base + pvspinlock V12 +-----------------+----------------+--------+ dbench (Throughput in MB/sec. Higher is better) +-----------------+----------------+--------+ | base (stdev %)|patched(stdev%) | %gain | +-----------------+----------------+--------+ | 15035.3 (0.3) |15150.0 (0.6) | 0.8 | | 1470.0 (2.2) | 1713.7 (1.9) | 16.6 | | 848.6 (4.3) | 967.8 (4.3) | 14.0 | | 652.9 (3.5) | 685.3 (3.7) | 5.0 | +-----------------+----------------+--------+ pvspinlock shows benefits for overcommit ratio > 1 for PLE enabled cases, and undercommits results are flat Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-2-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Tested-by: Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com> [ Raghavendra: Changed SPIN_THRESHOLD, fixed redefinition of arch_spinlock_t] Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c15
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c
index 676b8c77a976..c2e010e5fbce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c
@@ -7,21 +7,10 @@
#include <asm/paravirt.h>
-static inline void
-default_spin_lock_flags(arch_spinlock_t *lock, unsigned long flags)
-{
- arch_spin_lock(lock);
-}
-
struct pv_lock_ops pv_lock_ops = {
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
- .spin_is_locked = __ticket_spin_is_locked,
- .spin_is_contended = __ticket_spin_is_contended,
-
- .spin_lock = __ticket_spin_lock,
- .spin_lock_flags = default_spin_lock_flags,
- .spin_trylock = __ticket_spin_trylock,
- .spin_unlock = __ticket_spin_unlock,
+ .lock_spinning = paravirt_nop,
+ .unlock_kick = paravirt_nop,
#endif
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pv_lock_ops);