From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Waiman Long , Will Deacon , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , boqun.feng@gmail.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 28/61] locking/qspinlock/x86: Increase _Q_PENDING_LOOPS upper bound Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:18:28 +0100 Message-Id: <20181220085844.858853635@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20181220085843.743900603@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20181220085843.743900603@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ commit b247be3fe89b6aba928bf80f4453d1c4ba8d2063 upstream. On x86, atomic_cond_read_relaxed will busy-wait with a cpu_relax() loop, so it is desirable to increase the number of times we spin on the qspinlock lockword when it is found to be transitioning from pending to locked. According to Waiman Long: | Ideally, the spinning times should be at least a few times the typical | cacheline load time from memory which I think can be down to 100ns or | so for each cacheline load with the newest systems or up to several | hundreds ns for older systems. which in his benchmarking corresponded to 512 iterations. Suggested-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Waiman Long Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-5-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h index e07cc206919d..8b1ba1607091 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ #include #include +#define _Q_PENDING_LOOPS (1 << 9) + #define queued_spin_unlock queued_spin_unlock /** * queued_spin_unlock - release a queued spinlock -- 2.19.1