From: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>
To: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>,
Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Matthew R Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] anon_vmas: Convert the rwsem to an rwlock_t
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:35:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5249D26C.8020208@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380568987.3467.198.camel@schen9-DESK>
On 09/30/2013 03:23 PM, Tim Chen wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-30 at 20:14 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:10:27AM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
>>> Here's the exim workload data:
>>>
>>> rwsem improvment:
>>> Waimain's patch: +2.0%
>>> Alex+Tim's patchset: +4.8%
>>> Waiman+Alex+Tim: +5.3%
>>>
>>> convert rwsem to rwlock_t for root anon_vma lock
>>> Ingo's patch +11.7%
>>>
>> What happens if you stuff Waiman's qrwlock patches on top of that?
>> admittedly and oft mentioned in this thread, our current rwlock_t is
>> somewhat suboptimal under a number of conditions.
> I've tested with Waiman's qrwlock patches on top of Ingo's patches.
> It does not affect the throughput for exim and I still get
> about +11.7% throughput change (same as with Ingo's patch only).
>
> Tim
>
My qrwlock doesn't enable qrwlock by default. You have to use menuconfig
to explicitly enable it. Have you done that when you build the test
kernel? I am thinking of explicitly enabling it for x86 if the anon-vma
lock is converted back to a rwlock.
-Longman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-30 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-27 19:00 [PATCH] rwsem: reduce spinlock contention in wakeup code path Waiman Long
2013-09-27 19:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-27 19:39 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-09-27 21:49 ` Tim Chen
2013-09-28 6:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-28 7:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-28 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-28 19:13 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-28 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-28 19:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-28 19:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-28 19:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-30 16:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-30 16:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-01 7:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 8:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-01 8:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 15:58 ` Waiman Long
2013-10-01 7:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 20:03 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-28 19:37 ` [PATCH] anon_vmas: Convert the rwsem to an rwlock_t Ingo Molnar
2013-09-28 19:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-28 19:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-28 19:52 ` [PATCH, v2] " Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 11:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-30 11:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-30 17:03 ` Andrew Morton
2013-09-30 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-30 17:10 ` Tim Chen
2013-09-30 18:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-30 19:23 ` Tim Chen
2013-09-30 19:35 ` Waiman Long [this message]
2013-09-30 19:47 ` Tim Chen
2013-09-30 22:03 ` Tim Chen
2013-10-01 2:41 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-30 8:52 ` [PATCH] " Andrea Arcangeli
2013-09-30 14:40 ` Jerome Glisse
2013-09-30 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-30 19:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2013-09-30 18:21 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 19:04 ` Jerome Glisse
2013-09-29 23:06 ` [PATCH] rwsem: reduce spinlock contention in wakeup code path Davidlohr Bueso
2013-09-29 23:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-30 0:40 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2013-09-30 0:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-30 6:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 1:11 ` Michel Lespinasse
2013-09-30 7:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 16:03 ` Waiman Long
2013-09-30 10:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-01 7:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 8:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-27 19:32 ` Peter Hurley
2013-09-28 0:46 ` Waiman Long
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