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Waiman Long authored
Currently, all the lock waiters entering the slowpath will do one lock stealing attempt to acquire the lock. That helps performance, especially in VMs with over-committed vCPUs. However, the current pvqspinlocks still don't perform as good as unfair locks in many cases. On the other hands, unfair locks do have the problem of lock starvation that pvqspinlocks don't have. This patch combines the best attributes of an unfair lock and a pvqspinlock into a hybrid lock with 2 modes - queued mode & unfair mode. A lock waiter goes into the unfair mode when there are waiters in the wait queue but the pending bit isn't set. Otherwise, it will go into the queued mode waiting in the queue for its turn. On a 2-socket 36-core E5-2699 v3 system (HT off), a kernel build (make -j<n>) was done in a VM with unpinned vCPUs 3 times with the best time selected and <n> is the number of vCPUs available. The build times of the original pvqspinlock, hybrid pvqspinlock and unfair lock with various number of vCPUs are as follows: vCPUs pvqlock hybrid pvqlock unfair lock ----- ------- -------------- ----------- 30 342.1s 329.1s 329.1s 36 314.1s 305.3s 307.3s 45 345.0s 302.1s 306.6s 54 365.4s 308.6s 307.8s 72 358.9s 293.6s 303.9s 108 343.0s 285.9s 304.2s The hybrid pvqspinlock performs better or comparable to the unfair lock. By turning on QUEUED_LOCK_STAT, the table below showed the number of lock acquisitions in unfair mode and queue mode after a kernel build with various number of vCPUs. vCPUs queued mode unfair mode ----- ----------- ----------- 30 9,130,518 294,954 36 10,856,614 386,809 45 8,467,264 11,475,373 54 6,409,987 19,670,855 72 4,782,063 25,712,180 It can be seen that as the VM became more and more over-committed, the ratio of locks acquired in unfair mode increases. This is all done automatically to get the best overall performance as possible. Using a kernel locking microbenchmark with number of locking threads equals to the number of vCPUs available on the same machine, the minimum, average and maximum (min/avg/max) numbers of locking operations done per thread in a 5-second testing interval are shown below: vCPUs hybrid pvqlock unfair lock ----- -------------- ----------- 36 822,135/881,063/950,363 75,570/313,496/ 690,465 54 542,435/581,664/625,937 35,460/204,280/ 457,172 72 397,500/428,177/499,299 17,933/150,679/ 708,001 108 257,898/288,150/340,871 3,085/181,176/1,257,109 It can be seen that the hybrid pvqspinlocks are more fair and performant than the unfair locks in this test. The table below shows the kernel build times on a smaller 2-socket 16-core 32-thread E5-2620 v4 system. vCPUs pvqlock hybrid pvqlock unfair lock ----- ------- -------------- ----------- 16 436.8s 433.4s 435.6s 36 366.2s 364.8s 364.5s 48 423.6s 376.3s 370.2s 64 433.1s 376.6s 376.8s Again, the performance of the hybrid pvqspinlock was comparable to that of the unfair lock. Signed-off-by:Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
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