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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] powerpc: always enable queued spinlocks for 64s, disable for others
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 22:34:51 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210118123451.1452206-1-npiggin@gmail.com> (raw)

Queued spinlocks have shown to have good performance and fairness
properties even on smaller (2 socket) POWER systems. This selects
them automatically for 64s. For other platforms they are de-selected,
the standard spinlock is far simpler and smaller code, and single
chips with a handful of cores is unlikely to show any improvement.

CONFIG_EXPERT still allows this to be changed, e.g., to help debug
performance or correctness issues.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
---
Since v1, made the condition simpler as suggested by Christophe.
Verified this works as expected for a bunch of old configs
(e.g., updates old !EXPERT configs to PPC_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y if they
were previously =n).

Thanks,
Nick

 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 107bb4319e0e..eebb4a8c156c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -505,18 +505,14 @@ config HOTPLUG_CPU
 	  Say N if you are unsure.
 
 config PPC_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
-	bool "Queued spinlocks"
+	bool "Queued spinlocks" if EXPERT
 	depends on SMP
+	default PPC_BOOK3S_64
 	help
 	  Say Y here to use queued spinlocks which give better scalability and
 	  fairness on large SMP and NUMA systems without harming single threaded
 	  performance.
 
-	  This option is currently experimental, the code is more complex and
-	  less tested so it defaults to "N" for the moment.
-
-	  If unsure, say "N".
-
 config ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE
 	def_bool y
 	depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
-- 
2.23.0


             reply	other threads:[~2021-01-18 12:42 UTC|newest]

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2021-01-18 12:34 Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2021-02-03 11:40 ` [PATCH v2] powerpc: always enable queued spinlocks for 64s, disable for others Michael Ellerman

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