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* [PATCH RFC 00/12] X86 ticket lock cleanups and improvements
@ 2010-07-17  1:03 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 07/12] x86/spinlocks: replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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  0 siblings, 12 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2010-07-17  1:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel Mailing List
  Cc: Nick Piggin, Peter Zijlstra, Jan Beulich, Avi Kivity, Xen-devel

[ Sorry, resent with sensible threading and Nick's email corrected ]

Hi all,

This series does three things:

 - A general cleanup of the ticketlock implementation, including
   moving most of it into C, removing a pile of inline asm and ifdefs.

 - Convert the PV spinlock mechanism (enabled with
   CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS) to a PV ticketlock mechanism.  The old
   way completely replaced the spinlock implementation, changing all
   the spinlock calls into indirect ones via paravirt-ops.  This was
   overkill, and caused noticable performance regressions on some
   microarchitectures.

   The new scheme keeps the ticketlock algorithm, and uses the
   standard ticketlock code for both native and PV uses.  But it adds
   a couple of pvops hooks for the slow paths: one when we've been
   waiting a long time on a lock, and one when we're unlocking a lock
   which has people waiting on it.

 - A Xen implementation of these new pvop hooks, which shows how much
   simpler they make the backend code.

I've benchmarked these changes with lmbench lat_mmap, which shows that
- at worst - these changes have no detremental effect to performance
when run native.  In some cases there are surprising improvements
(running native with the pvop hooks enabled was noticably faster than
without, for example).  (I tried also using mmap-perf, but it seems to
hang indefinitely when I run it on 4 threads.)

The patches are against v2.6.33, but merge cleanly with current
linux-2.6.git.

Thanks,
	J

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (12):
  x86/ticketlock: clean up types and accessors
  x86/ticketlock: convert spin loop to C
  x86/ticketlock: Use C for __ticket_spin_unlock
  x86/ticketlock: make large and small ticket versions of spin_lock the
    same
  x86/ticketlock: make __ticket_spin_lock common
  x86/ticketlock: make __ticket_spin_trylock common
  x86/spinlocks: replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks
  x86/ticketlock: collapse a layer of functions
  xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks
  x86/pvticketlock: keep count of blocked cpus
  x86/pvticketlock: use callee-save for lock_spinning
  x86/pvticketlock: use callee-save for unlock_kick as well

 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h       |   30 +---
 arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h |    8 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h       |  241 ++++++++++++++--------------
 arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock_types.h |   26 +++-
 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt-spinlocks.c  |   15 +--
 arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c               |  282 +++++----------------------------
 6 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 410 deletions(-)

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* [PATCH RFC 08/12] x86/ticketlock: collapse a layer of functions
@ 2010-07-14 23:30 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2010-07-14 23:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Kernel Mailing List
  Cc: Nick Piggin, Peter Zijlstra, Jan Beulich, Avi Kivity, Xen-devel

Now that the paravirtualization layer doesn't exist at the spinlock
level any more, we can collapse the __ticket_ functions into the arch_
functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h |   35 +++++------------------------------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
index 06815f3..a79dfee 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static __always_inline void __ticket_unlock_kick(struct arch_spinlock *lock, __t
 		____ticket_unlock_kick(lock, next);
 }
 
-static __always_inline void __ticket_spin_lock(struct arch_spinlock *lock)
+static __always_inline void arch_spin_lock(struct arch_spinlock *lock)
 {
 	register struct __raw_tickets inc;
 
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ static __always_inline void __ticket_spin_lock(struct arch_spinlock *lock)
 	barrier();		/* make sure nothing creeps before the lock is taken */
 }
 
-static __always_inline int __ticket_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
+static __always_inline int arch_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
 	union {
 		struct __raw_tickets tickets;
@@ -150,53 +150,28 @@ static __always_inline int __ticket_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static __always_inline void __ticket_spin_unlock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
+static __always_inline void arch_spin_unlock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
 	__ticket_t next = lock->tickets.head + 1;
 	__ticket_unlock_release(lock);
 	__ticket_unlock_kick(lock, next);
 }
 
-static inline int __ticket_spin_is_locked(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
+static inline int arch_spin_is_locked(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
 	struct __raw_tickets tmp = ACCESS_ONCE(lock->tickets);
 
 	return !!(tmp.tail ^ tmp.head);
 }
 
-static inline int __ticket_spin_is_contended(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
+static inline int arch_spin_is_contended(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
 {
 	struct __raw_tickets tmp = ACCESS_ONCE(lock->tickets);
 
 	return ((tmp.tail - tmp.head) & TICKET_MASK) > 1;
 }
-
-static inline int arch_spin_is_locked(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
-{
-	return __ticket_spin_is_locked(lock);
-}
-
-static inline int arch_spin_is_contended(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
-{
-	return __ticket_spin_is_contended(lock);
-}
 #define arch_spin_is_contended	arch_spin_is_contended
 
-static __always_inline void arch_spin_lock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
-{
-	__ticket_spin_lock(lock);
-}
-
-static __always_inline int arch_spin_trylock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
-{
-	return __ticket_spin_trylock(lock);
-}
-
-static __always_inline void arch_spin_unlock(arch_spinlock_t *lock)
-{
-	__ticket_spin_unlock(lock);
-}
-
 static __always_inline void arch_spin_lock_flags(arch_spinlock_t *lock,
 						  unsigned long flags)
 {
-- 
1.7.1.1

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2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 11/12] x86/pvticketlock: use callee-save for lock_spinning Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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2010-07-20 15:38   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-07-20 16:17     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-06 17:47       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-06 20:03         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 10/12] x86/pvticketlock: keep count of blocked cpus Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-03  8:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-03  9:44     ` Nick Piggin
2010-08-03 15:45     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 01/12] x86/ticketlock: clean up types and accessors Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 08/12] x86/ticketlock: collapse a layer of functions Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 09/12] xen/pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-09-26 11:39   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-09-26 22:34     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-01-18 16:27       ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2011-01-19  1:28         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 05/12] x86/ticketlock: make __ticket_spin_lock common Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 04/12] x86/ticketlock: make large and small ticket versions of spin_lock the same Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 02/12] x86/ticketlock: convert spin loop to C Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-02 15:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-02 15:17     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-06 12:43       ` Jan Beulich
2010-08-06 14:53         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-06 20:17           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-06 20:33             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-06 21:09               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-06 22:03                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 06/12] x86/ticketlock: make __ticket_spin_trylock common Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-17  1:03 ` [PATCH RFC 12/12] x86/pvticketlock: use callee-save for unlock_kick as well Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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