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Waiman Long cf69482d62 locking/rwsem: Enable readers spinning on writer
This patch enables readers to optimistically spin on a
rwsem when it is owned by a writer instead of going to sleep
directly.  The rwsem_can_spin_on_owner() function is extracted
out of rwsem_optimistic_spin() and is called directly by
rwsem_down_read_slowpath() and rwsem_down_write_slowpath().

With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the total
locking rates (in kops/s) on a 8-socket IvyBrige-EX system with equal
numbers of readers and writers before and after the patch were as
follows:

   # of Threads  Pre-patch    Post-patch
   ------------  ---------    ----------
        4          1,674        1,684
        8          1,062        1,074
       16            924          900
       32            300          458
       64            195          208
      128            164          168
      240            149          143

The performance change wasn't significant in this case, but this change
is required by a follow-on patch.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-13-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-06-17 12:28:05 +02:00
arch x86/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() 2019-06-17 12:09:59 +02:00
block blk-mq: remove WARN_ON(!q->elevator) from blk_mq_sched_free_requests 2019-06-13 03:05:58 -06:00
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Documentation x86/atomic: Fix smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() 2019-06-17 12:09:59 +02:00
drivers locking/lockdep: Rename lockdep_assert_held_exclusive() -> lockdep_assert_held_write() 2019-06-17 12:09:24 +02:00
fs locking/lockdep: Rename lockdep_assert_held_exclusive() -> lockdep_assert_held_write() 2019-06-17 12:09:24 +02:00
include locking/rwsem: Clarify usage of owner's nonspinaable bit 2019-06-17 12:28:03 +02:00
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kernel locking/rwsem: Enable readers spinning on writer 2019-06-17 12:28:05 +02:00
lib locking/rwsem: Make owner available even if !CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER 2019-06-17 12:27:54 +02:00
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scripts scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: prefix addr2line with $CROSS_COMPILE 2019-06-13 17:34:56 -10:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.