From 08295b3b5beec9aac0f7a9db86f0fc3792039da3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Hellstrom Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:17:38 +0200 Subject: locking: Implement an algorithm choice for Wound-Wait mutexes The current Wound-Wait mutex algorithm is actually not Wound-Wait but Wait-Die. Implement also Wound-Wait as a per-ww-class choice. Wound-Wait is, contrary to Wait-Die a preemptive algorithm and is known to generate fewer backoffs. Testing reveals that this is true if the number of simultaneous contending transactions is small. As the number of simultaneous contending threads increases, Wait-Wound becomes inferior to Wait-Die in terms of elapsed time. Possibly due to the larger number of held locks of sleeping transactions. Update documentation and callers. Timings using git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/ww_mutex_test tag patch-18-06-15 Each thread runs 100000 batches of lock / unlock 800 ww mutexes randomly chosen out of 100000. Four core Intel x86_64: Algorithm #threads Rollbacks time Wound-Wait 4 ~100 ~17s. Wait-Die 4 ~150000 ~19s. Wound-Wait 16 ~360000 ~109s. Wait-Die 16 ~450000 ~82s. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Gustavo Padovan Cc: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Sean Paul Cc: David Airlie Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Kate Stewart Cc: Philippe Ombredanne Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Co-authored-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Ingo Molnar --- lib/locking-selftest.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/locking-selftest.c b/lib/locking-selftest.c index b5c1293ce147..1e1bbf171eca 100644 --- a/lib/locking-selftest.c +++ b/lib/locking-selftest.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ */ static unsigned int debug_locks_verbose; -static DEFINE_WW_CLASS(ww_lockdep); +static DEFINE_WD_CLASS(ww_lockdep); static int __init setup_debug_locks_verbose(char *str) { -- cgit v1.2.3