From: Waiman Long Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:12:16 +0000 (-0400) Subject: locking/rwsem: Reduce spinlock contention in wakeup after up_read()/up_write() X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v4.3/legacy-v2-signed~211^2~23 X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=59aabfc7e959f5f213e4e5cc7567ab4934da2adf;p=pandora-kernel.git locking/rwsem: Reduce spinlock contention in wakeup after up_read()/up_write() In up_write()/up_read(), rwsem_wake() will be called whenever it detects that some writers/readers are waiting. The rwsem_wake() function will take the wait_lock and call __rwsem_do_wake() to do the real wakeup. For a heavily contended rwsem, doing a spin_lock() on wait_lock will cause further contention on the heavily contended rwsem cacheline resulting in delay in the completion of the up_read/up_write operations. This patch makes the wait_lock taking and the call to __rwsem_do_wake() optional if at least one spinning writer is present. The spinning writer will be able to take the rwsem and call rwsem_wake() later when it calls up_write(). With the presence of a spinning writer, rwsem_wake() will now try to acquire the lock using trylock. If that fails, it will just quit. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-by: Jason Low Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Douglas Hatch Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Scott J Norton Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430428337-16802-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed