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Waiman Long 34d54f3d69 locking/pvqspinlock: Relax cmpxchg's to improve performance on some architectures
All the locking related cmpxchg's in the following functions are
replaced with the _acquire variants:

 - pv_queued_spin_steal_lock()
 - trylock_clear_pending()

This change should help performance on architectures that use LL/SC.

The cmpxchg in pv_kick_node() is replaced with a relaxed version
with explicit memory barrier to make sure that it is fully ordered
in the writing of next->lock and the reading of pn->state whether
the cmpxchg is a success or failure without affecting performance in
non-LL/SC architectures.

On a 2-socket 12-core 96-thread Power8 system with pvqspinlock
explicitly enabled, the performance of a locking microbenchmark
with and without this patch on a 4.13-rc4 kernel with Xinhui's PPC
qspinlock patch were as follows:

  # of thread     w/o patch    with patch      % Change
  -----------     ---------    ----------      --------
       8         5054.8 Mop/s  5209.4 Mop/s     +3.1%
      16         3985.0 Mop/s  4015.0 Mop/s     +0.8%
      32         2378.2 Mop/s  2396.0 Mop/s     +0.7%

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pan Xinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502741222-24360-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-08-29 15:14:38 +02:00
arch smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data 2017-08-29 15:14:38 +02:00
block smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data 2017-08-29 15:14:38 +02:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
Documentation Documentation/locking/atomic: Finish the document... 2017-08-25 11:06:33 +02:00
drivers smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data 2017-08-29 15:14:38 +02:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-08-25 11:04:51 +02:00
include smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data 2017-08-29 15:14:38 +02:00
init futex: Allow for compiling out PI support 2017-08-01 14:36:35 +02:00
ipc ipc: add missing container_of()s for randstruct 2017-08-02 17:16:12 -07:00
kernel locking/pvqspinlock: Relax cmpxchg's to improve performance on some architectures 2017-08-29 15:14:38 +02:00
lib locking/lockdep/selftests: Add mixed read-write ABBA tests 2017-08-25 11:06:31 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-08-25 11:04:51 +02:00
net Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-08-25 11:04:51 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup 2017-07-31 22:02:47 -07:00
scripts Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-08-25 11:04:51 +02:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound ALSA: emu10k1: Fix forgotten user-copy conversion in init code 2017-08-18 10:59:02 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'linus' into locking/core, to pick up fixes 2017-08-25 11:04:51 +02:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.13-rc4 2017-08-03 17:59:58 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-08-20 09:07:56 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild fixes for v4.13 2017-08-24 14:22:27 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.