locking/pvqspinlock: Queue node adaptive spinning

In an overcommitted guest where some vCPUs have to be halted to make
forward progress in other areas, it is highly likely that a vCPU later
in the spinlock queue will be spinning while the ones earlier in the
queue would have been halted. The spinning in the later vCPUs is then
just a waste of precious CPU cycles because they are not going to
get the lock soon as the earlier ones have to be woken up and take
their turn to get the lock.

This patch implements an adaptive spinning mechanism where the vCPU
will call pv_wait() if the previous vCPU is not running.

Linux kernel builds were run in KVM guest on an 8-socket, 4
cores/socket Westmere-EX system and a 4-socket, 8 cores/socket
Haswell-EX system. Both systems are configured to have 32 physical
CPUs. The kernel build times before and after the patch were:

		    Westmere			Haswell
  Patch		32 vCPUs    48 vCPUs	32 vCPUs    48 vCPUs
  -----		--------    --------    --------    --------
  Before patch   3m02.3s     5m00.2s     1m43.7s     3m03.5s
  After patch    3m03.0s     4m37.5s	 1m43.0s     2m47.2s

For 32 vCPUs, this patch doesn't cause any noticeable change in
performance. For 48 vCPUs (over-committed), there is about 8%
performance improvement.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447114167-47185-8-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Waiman Long
2015-11-09 19:09:27 -05:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 1c4941fd53
commit cd0272fab7
3 changed files with 50 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
* pv_lock_stealing - # of lock stealing operations
* pv_spurious_wakeup - # of spurious wakeups
* pv_wait_again - # of vCPU wait's that happened after a vCPU kick
* pv_wait_early - # of early vCPU wait's
* pv_wait_head - # of vCPU wait's at the queue head
* pv_wait_node - # of vCPU wait's at a non-head queue node
*
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ enum qlock_stats {
qstat_pv_lock_stealing,
qstat_pv_spurious_wakeup,
qstat_pv_wait_again,
qstat_pv_wait_early,
qstat_pv_wait_head,
qstat_pv_wait_node,
qstat_num, /* Total number of statistical counters */
@@ -70,6 +72,7 @@ static const char * const qstat_names[qstat_num + 1] = {
[qstat_pv_latency_wake] = "pv_latency_wake",
[qstat_pv_lock_stealing] = "pv_lock_stealing",
[qstat_pv_wait_again] = "pv_wait_again",
[qstat_pv_wait_early] = "pv_wait_early",
[qstat_pv_wait_head] = "pv_wait_head",
[qstat_pv_wait_node] = "pv_wait_node",
[qstat_reset_cnts] = "reset_counters",