Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758847Ab3FMX0A (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:26:00 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-f171.google.com ([209.85.223.171]:44257 "EHLO mail-ie0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752483Ab3FMXZ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:25:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20130613152238.GB5146@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20130609193657.GA13392@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130611170249.GA1091@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20130612154008.GA9714@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <51B934AD.1070807@cn.fujitsu.com> <20130613152238.GB5146@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:25:57 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC ticketlock] v3 Auto-queued ticketlock From: Lai Jiangshan To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, walken@google.com, waiman.long@hp.com, davidlohr.bueso@hp.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 11089 Lines: 245 On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:55:41AM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: >> On 06/12/2013 11:40 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> > Breaking up locks is better than implementing high-contention locks, but >> > if we must have high-contention locks, why not make them automatically >> > switch between light-weight ticket locks at low contention and queued >> > locks at high contention? After all, this would remove the need for >> > the developer to predict which locks will be highly contended. >> > >> > This commit allows ticket locks to automatically switch between pure >> > ticketlock and queued-lock operation as needed. If too many CPUs are >> > spinning on a given ticket lock, a queue structure will be allocated >> > and the lock will switch to queued-lock operation. When the lock becomes >> > free, it will switch back into ticketlock operation. The low-order bit >> > of the head counter is used to indicate that the lock is in queued mode, >> > which forces an unconditional mismatch between the head and tail counters. >> > This approach means that the common-case code path under conditions of >> > low contention is very nearly that of a plain ticket lock. >> > >> > A fixed number of queueing structures is statically allocated in an >> > array. The ticket-lock address is used to hash into an initial element, >> > but if that element is already in use, it moves to the next element. If >> > the entire array is already in use, continue to spin in ticket mode. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney >> > [ paulmck: Eliminate duplicate code and update comments (Steven Rostedt). ] >> > [ paulmck: Address Eric Dumazet review feedback. ] >> > [ paulmck: Use Lai Jiangshan idea to eliminate smp_mb(). ] >> > [ paulmck: Expand ->head_tkt from s32 to s64 (Waiman Long). ] >> > [ paulmck: Move cpu_relax() to main spin loop (Steven Rostedt). ] >> > [ paulmck: Reduce queue-switch contention (Waiman Long). ] >> > [ paulmck: __TKT_SPIN_INC for __ticket_spin_trylock() (Steffen Persvold). ] >> > [ paulmck: Type safety fixes (Steven Rostedt). ] >> > [ paulmck: Pre-check cmpxchg() value (Waiman Long). ] >> > [ paulmck: smp_mb() downgrade to smp_wmb() (Lai Jiangshan). ] >> >> >> Hi, Paul, >> >> I simplify the code and remove the search by encoding the index of struct tkt_q_head >> into lock->tickets.head. >> >> A) lock->tickets.head(when queued-lock): >> --------------------------------- >> index of struct tkt_q_head |0|1| >> --------------------------------- > > Interesting approach! It might reduce queued-mode overhead a bit in > some cases, though I bet that in the common case the first queue element > examined is the right one. More on this below. > >> The bit0 = 1 for queued, and the bit1 = 0 is reserved for __ticket_spin_unlock(), >> thus __ticket_spin_unlock() will not change the higher bits of lock->tickets.head. >> >> B) tqhp->head is for the real value of lock->tickets.head. >> if the last bit of tqhp->head is 1, it means it is the head ticket when started queuing. > > But don't you also need the xadd() in __ticket_spin_unlock() to become > a cmpxchg() for this to work? Or is your patch missing your changes to > arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h? Either way, this is likely to increase > the no-contention overhead, which might be counterproductive. Wouldn't > hurt to get measurements, though. No, don't need to change __ticket_spin_unlock() in my idea. bit1 in the tickets.head is reserved for __ticket_spin_unlock(), __ticket_spin_unlock() only changes the bit1, it will not change the higher bits. tkt_q_do_wake() will restore the tickets.head. This approach avoids cmpxchg in __ticket_spin_unlock(). > > Given the results that Davidlohr posted, I believe that the following > optimizations would also provide some improvement: > > 1. Move the call to tkt_spin_pass() from __ticket_spin_lock() > to a separate linker section in order to reduce the icache > penalty exacted by the spinloop. This is likely to be causing > some of the performance reductions in the cases where ticket > locks are not highly contended. > > 2. Limit the number of elements searched for in the array of > queues. However, this would help only if a number of ticket > locks were in queued mode at the same time. > > 3. Dynamically allocate the queue array at boot. This might > also reduce cache pressure, again, at least in cases where > there are a number of ticket locks in queued mode at the > same time. > > Frederic just reminded me that I owe him some energy-efficiency improvements > for adaptive ticks, so I won't get to these very quickly. Please feel free > to take these on -- the patch clearly does well under high contention, so > reducing the no-contention penalty could really help. > > Thanx, Paul > >> Thanks, >> Lai >> >> kernel/tktqlock.c | 51 +++++++++++++-------------------------------------- >> 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/kernel/tktqlock.c b/kernel/tktqlock.c >> index 912817c..1329d0f 100644 >> --- a/kernel/tktqlock.c >> +++ b/kernel/tktqlock.c >> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ struct tkt_q { >> >> struct tkt_q_head { >> arch_spinlock_t *ref; /* Pointer to spinlock if in use. */ >> - s64 head_tkt; /* Head ticket when started queuing. */ >> + __ticket_t head; /* Real head when queued. */ >> struct tkt_q *spin; /* Head of queue. */ >> struct tkt_q **spin_tail; /* Tail of queue. */ >> }; >> @@ -77,15 +77,8 @@ static unsigned long tkt_q_hash(arch_spinlock_t *lock) >> */ >> static struct tkt_q_head *tkt_q_find_head(arch_spinlock_t *lock) >> { >> - int i; >> - int start; >> - >> - start = i = tkt_q_hash(lock); >> - do >> - if (ACCESS_ONCE(tkt_q_heads[i].ref) == lock) >> - return &tkt_q_heads[i]; >> - while ((i = tkt_q_next_slot(i)) != start); >> - return NULL; >> + BUILD_BUG_ON(TKT_Q_NQUEUES > (1 << (TICKET_SHIFT - 2))); >> + return &tkt_q_heads[ACCESS_ONCE(lock->tickets.head) >> 2]; >> } >> >> /* >> @@ -101,11 +94,11 @@ static bool tkt_q_try_unqueue(arch_spinlock_t *lock, struct tkt_q_head *tqhp) >> >> /* Pick up the ticket values. */ >> asold = ACCESS_ONCE(*lock); >> - if ((asold.tickets.head & ~0x1) == asold.tickets.tail) { >> + if (tqhp->head == asold.tickets.tail) { >> >> /* Attempt to mark the lock as not having a queue. */ >> asnew = asold; >> - asnew.tickets.head &= ~0x1; >> + asnew.tickets.head = tqhp->head; >> if (cmpxchg(&lock->head_tail, >> asold.head_tail, >> asnew.head_tail) == asold.head_tail) { >> @@ -128,12 +121,9 @@ void tkt_q_do_wake(arch_spinlock_t *lock) >> struct tkt_q_head *tqhp; >> struct tkt_q *tqp; >> >> - /* >> - * If the queue is still being set up, wait for it. Note that >> - * the caller's xadd() provides the needed memory ordering. >> - */ >> - while ((tqhp = tkt_q_find_head(lock)) == NULL) >> - cpu_relax(); >> + tqhp = tkt_q_find_head(lock); >> + ACCESS_ONCE(lock->tickets.head) -= __TKT_SPIN_INC; >> + ACCESS_ONCE(tqhp->head) = (tqhp->head & ~0x1) + __TKT_SPIN_INC; >> >> for (;;) { >> >> @@ -145,9 +135,7 @@ void tkt_q_do_wake(arch_spinlock_t *lock) >> return; /* No element, successfully removed queue. */ >> cpu_relax(); >> } >> - if (ACCESS_ONCE(tqhp->head_tkt) != -1) >> - ACCESS_ONCE(tqhp->head_tkt) = -1; >> - smp_mb(); /* Order pointer fetch and assignment against handoff. */ >> + smp_mb(); /* Order modification, pointer fetch and assignment against handoff. */ >> ACCESS_ONCE(tqp->cpu) = -1; >> } >> EXPORT_SYMBOL(tkt_q_do_wake); >> @@ -169,10 +157,7 @@ bool tkt_q_do_spin(arch_spinlock_t *lock, struct __raw_tickets inc) >> */ >> smp_mb(); /* See above block comment. */ >> >> - /* If there no longer is a queue, leave. */ >> tqhp = tkt_q_find_head(lock); >> - if (tqhp == NULL) >> - return false; >> >> /* Initialize our queue element. */ >> tq.cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(); >> @@ -180,9 +165,8 @@ bool tkt_q_do_spin(arch_spinlock_t *lock, struct __raw_tickets inc) >> tq.next = NULL; >> >> /* Check to see if we already hold the lock. */ >> - if (ACCESS_ONCE(tqhp->head_tkt) == inc.tail) { >> + if (ACCESS_ONCE(tqhp->head) == (inc.tail | 0x1)) { >> /* The last holder left before queue formed, we hold lock. */ >> - tqhp->head_tkt = -1; >> return true; >> } >> >> @@ -290,16 +274,14 @@ tkt_q_init_contend(int i, arch_spinlock_t *lock, struct __raw_tickets inc) >> * Record the head counter in case one of the spinning >> * CPUs already holds the lock but doesn't realize it yet. >> */ >> - tqhp->head_tkt = asold.tickets.head; >> + tqhp->head = asold.tickets.head | 0x1; >> >> /* The low-order bit in the head counter says "queued". */ >> - asnew.tickets.head |= 0x1; >> + asnew.tickets.head = (i << 2) + 0x1; >> } while (cmpxchg(&lock->head_tail, >> asold.head_tail, >> asnew.head_tail) != asold.head_tail); >> >> - /* Point the queue at the lock and go spin on it. */ >> - ACCESS_ONCE(tqhp->ref) = lock; >> return tkt_q_do_spin(lock, inc); >> } >> >> @@ -321,15 +303,8 @@ bool tkt_q_start_contend(arch_spinlock_t *lock, struct __raw_tickets inc) >> * the lock with the corresponding queue. >> */ >> do { >> - /* >> - * Use 0x1 to mark the queue in use, but also avoiding >> - * any spinners trying to use it before we get it all >> - * initialized. >> - */ >> if (!tkt_q_heads[i].ref && >> - cmpxchg(&tkt_q_heads[i].ref, >> - NULL, >> - (arch_spinlock_t *)0x1) == NULL) { >> + cmpxchg(&tkt_q_heads[i].ref, NULL, lock) == NULL) { >> >> /* Succeeded, now go initialize it. */ >> return tkt_q_init_contend(i, lock, inc); >> > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/