kernel_optimize_test/kernel/locking/lock_events_list.h
Waiman Long 4f23dbc1e6 locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation
Because of writer lock stealing, it is possible that a constant
stream of incoming writers will cause a waiting writer or reader to
wait indefinitely leading to lock starvation.

This patch implements a lock handoff mechanism to disable lock stealing
and force lock handoff to the first waiter or waiters (for readers)
in the queue after at least a 4ms waiting period unless it is a RT
writer task which doesn't need to wait. The waiting period is used to
avoid discouraging lock stealing too much to affect performance.

The setting and clearing of the handoff bit is serialized by the
wait_lock. So racing is not possible.

A rwsem microbenchmark was run for 5 seconds on a 2-socket 40-core
80-thread Skylake system with a v5.1 based kernel and 240 write_lock
threads with 5us sleep critical section.

Before the patch, the min/mean/max numbers of locking operations for
the locking threads were 1/7,792/173,696. After the patch, the figures
became 5,842/6,542/7,458.  It can be seen that the rwsem became much
more fair, though there was a drop of about 16% in the mean locking
operations done which was a tradeoff of having better fairness.

Making the waiter set the handoff bit right after the first wakeup can
impact performance especially with a mixed reader/writer workload. With
the same microbenchmark with short critical section and equal number of
reader and writer threads (40/40), the reader/writer locking operation
counts with the current patch were:

  40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,793/1,794/1,796
  40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,793/34,956/86,081

By making waiter set handoff bit immediately after wakeup:

  40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 43/44/46
  40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 43/1,263/3,191

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-8-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-06-17 12:27:59 +02:00

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
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* Authors: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
*/
#ifndef LOCK_EVENT
#define LOCK_EVENT(name) LOCKEVENT_ ## name,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
/*
* Locking events for PV qspinlock.
*/
LOCK_EVENT(pv_hash_hops) /* Average # of hops per hashing operation */
LOCK_EVENT(pv_kick_unlock) /* # of vCPU kicks issued at unlock time */
LOCK_EVENT(pv_kick_wake) /* # of vCPU kicks for pv_latency_wake */
LOCK_EVENT(pv_latency_kick) /* Average latency (ns) of vCPU kick */
LOCK_EVENT(pv_latency_wake) /* Average latency (ns) of kick-to-wakeup */
LOCK_EVENT(pv_lock_stealing) /* # of lock stealing operations */
LOCK_EVENT(pv_spurious_wakeup) /* # of spurious wakeups in non-head vCPUs */
LOCK_EVENT(pv_wait_again) /* # of wait's after queue head vCPU kick */
LOCK_EVENT(pv_wait_early) /* # of early vCPU wait's */
LOCK_EVENT(pv_wait_head) /* # of vCPU wait's at the queue head */
LOCK_EVENT(pv_wait_node) /* # of vCPU wait's at non-head queue node */
#endif /* CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS */
/*
* Locking events for qspinlock
*
* Subtracting lock_use_node[234] from lock_slowpath will give you
* lock_use_node1.
*/
LOCK_EVENT(lock_pending) /* # of locking ops via pending code */
LOCK_EVENT(lock_slowpath) /* # of locking ops via MCS lock queue */
LOCK_EVENT(lock_use_node2) /* # of locking ops that use 2nd percpu node */
LOCK_EVENT(lock_use_node3) /* # of locking ops that use 3rd percpu node */
LOCK_EVENT(lock_use_node4) /* # of locking ops that use 4th percpu node */
LOCK_EVENT(lock_no_node) /* # of locking ops w/o using percpu node */
#endif /* CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS */
/*
* Locking events for rwsem
*/
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_sleep_reader) /* # of reader sleeps */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_sleep_writer) /* # of writer sleeps */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_wake_reader) /* # of reader wakeups */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_wake_writer) /* # of writer wakeups */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_opt_wlock) /* # of write locks opt-spin acquired */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_opt_fail) /* # of failed opt-spinnings */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_rlock) /* # of read locks acquired */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_rlock_fast) /* # of fast read locks acquired */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_rlock_fail) /* # of failed read lock acquisitions */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_rlock_handoff) /* # of read lock handoffs */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_wlock) /* # of write locks acquired */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_wlock_fail) /* # of failed write lock acquisitions */
LOCK_EVENT(rwsem_wlock_handoff) /* # of write lock handoffs */