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It was discovered that a constant stream of readers with occassional writers pounding on a rwsem may cause many of the readers to enter the slowpath unnecessarily thus increasing latency and lowering performance. In the current code, a reader entering the slowpath critical section will unconditionally set the WAITING_BIAS, if not set yet, and clear its active count even if no one is in the wait queue and no writer is present. This causes some incoming readers to observe the presence of waiters in the wait queue and hence have to go into the slowpath themselves. With sufficient numbers of readers and a relatively short lock hold time, the WAITING_BIAS may be repeatedly turned on and off and a substantial portion of the readers will go into the slowpath sustaining a rather long queue in the wait queue spinlock and repeated WAITING_BIAS on/off cycle until the logjam is broken opportunistically. To avoid this situation from happening, an additional check is added to detect the special case that the reader in the critical section is the only one in the wait queue and no writer is present. When that happens, it can just exit the slowpath and return immediately as its active count has already been set in the lock. Other incoming readers won't observe the presence of waiters and so will not be forced into the slowpath. The issue was found in a customer site where they had an application that pounded on the pread64 syscalls heavily on an XFS filesystem. The application was run in a recent 4-socket boxes with a lot of CPUs. They saw significant spinlock contention in the rwsem_down_read_failed() call. With this patch applied, the system CPU usage went down from 85% to 57%, and the spinlock contention in the pread64 syscalls was gone. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532459425-19204-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
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.