From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
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Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>,
Alexander Fyodorov <halcy@yandex.ru>,
Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>,
Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>,
Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke <thavatchai.makpahibulchoke@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 12:43:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52EA8F41.7000807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1390933151-1797-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com>
On 01/28/2014 01:19 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> This patch introduces a new queue spinlock implementation that can
> serve as an alternative to the default ticket spinlock. Compared with
> the ticket spinlock, this queue spinlock should be almost as fair as
> the ticket spinlock. It has about the same speed in single-thread and
> it can be much faster in high contention situations. Only in light to
> moderate contention where the average queue depth is around 1-2 will
> this queue spinlock be potentially a bit slower due to the higher
> slowpath overhead.
>
> This queue spinlock is especially suit to NUMA machines with a large
> number of cores as the chance of spinlock contention is much higher
> in those machines. The cost of contention is also higher because of
> slower inter-node memory traffic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-30 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-28 18:19 [PATCH v3 0/2] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock Waiman Long
2014-01-28 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock implementation Waiman Long
2014-01-29 0:20 ` Andi Kleen
2014-01-29 0:20 ` Andi Kleen
2014-01-29 2:57 ` George Spelvin
2014-01-29 2:57 ` George Spelvin
2014-01-29 17:57 ` Waiman Long
2014-01-30 17:43 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2014-01-30 19:00 ` Tim Chen
2014-01-30 19:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-30 22:27 ` Tim Chen
2014-01-31 18:26 ` Waiman Long
2014-01-31 19:14 ` George Spelvin
2014-01-31 19:28 ` Waiman Long
2014-01-31 19:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-31 18:16 ` Waiman Long
2014-01-30 19:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-31 18:28 ` Waiman Long
2014-01-31 15:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-01-31 19:24 ` Waiman Long
2014-01-31 19:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-03 11:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-02-06 3:10 ` Waiman Long
2014-02-07 18:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-02-03 8:51 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-01-28 18:19 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] qspinlock, x86: Enable x86-64 to use queue spinlock Waiman Long
2014-01-30 17:45 ` Rik van Riel
2014-01-30 8:55 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte " Raghavendra K T
2014-01-30 15:38 ` Waiman Long
2014-01-30 18:49 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-03 8:51 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-06 3:09 ` Waiman Long
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