9ae949fa38
Our sysv sems have been using the notion of lockless wakeups for a
while, ever since commit 0a2b9d4c7967 ("ipc/sem.c: move wake_up_process
out of the spinlock section"), in order to reduce the sem_lock hold
times. This in-house pending queue can be replaced by wake_q (just like
all the rest of ipc now), in that it provides the following advantages:
o Simplifies and gets rid of unnecessary code.
o We get rid of the IN_WAKEUP complexities. Given that wake_q_add()
grabs reference to the task, if awoken due to an unrelated event,
between the wake_q_add() and wake_up_q() window, we cannot race with
sys_exit and the imminent call to wake_up_process().
o By not spinning IN_WAKEUP, we no longer need to disable preemption.
In consequence, the wakeup paths (after schedule(), that is) must
acknowledge an external signal/event, as well spurious wakeup occurring
during the pending wakeup window. Obviously no changes in semantics
that could be visible to the user. The fastpath is _only_ for when we
know for sure that we were awoken due to a the waker's successful semop
call (queue.status is not -EINTR).
On a 48-core Haswell, running the ipcscale 'waitforzero' test, the
following is seen with increasing thread counts:
v4.8-rc5 v4.8-rc5
semopv2
Hmean sembench-sem-2 574733.00 ( 0.00%) 578322.00 ( 0.62%)
Hmean sembench-sem-8 811708.00 ( 0.00%) 824689.00 ( 1.59%)
Hmean sembench-sem-12 842448.00 ( 0.00%) 845409.00 ( 0.35%)
Hmean sembench-sem-21 933003.00 ( 0.00%) 977748.00 ( 4.80%)
Hmean sembench-sem-48 935910.00 ( 0.00%) 1004759.00 ( 7.36%)
Hmean sembench-sem-79 937186.00 ( 0.00%) 983976.00 ( 4.99%)
Hmean sembench-sem-234 974256.00 ( 0.00%) 1060294.00 ( 8.83%)
Hmean sembench-sem-265 975468.00 ( 0.00%) 1016243.00 ( 4.18%)
Hmean sembench-sem-296 991280.00 ( 0.00%) 1042659.00 ( 5.18%)
Hmean sembench-sem-327 975415.00 ( 0.00%) 1029977.00 ( 5.59%)
Hmean sembench-sem-358 1014286.00 ( 0.00%) 1049624.00 ( 3.48%)
Hmean sembench-sem-389 972939.00 ( 0.00%) 1043127.00 ( 7.21%)
Hmean sembench-sem-420 981909.00 ( 0.00%) 1056747.00 ( 7.62%)
Hmean sembench-sem-451 990139.00 ( 0.00%) 1051609.00 ( 6.21%)
Hmean sembench-sem-482 965735.00 ( 0.00%) 1040313.00 ( 7.72%)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: merge fix for WAKE_Q to DEFINE_WAKE_Q rename]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161122210410.5eca9fc2@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474225896-10066-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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