similar to: [PATCH 00/11] qspinlock with paravirt support

Hi Waiman, As promised; here is the paravirt stuff I did during the trip to BOS last week. All the !paravirt patches are more or less the same as before (the only real change is the copyright lines in the first patch). The paravirt stuff is 'simple' and KVM only -- the Xen code was a little more convoluted and I've no real way to test that but it should be stright fwd to make work.

Hi Waiman, As promised; here is the paravirt stuff I did during the trip to BOS last week. All the !paravirt patches are more or less the same as before (the only real change is the copyright lines in the first patch). The paravirt stuff is 'simple' and KVM only -- the Xen code was a little more convoluted and I've no real way to test that but it should be stright fwd to make work.

v15->v16: - Remove the lfsr patch and use linear probing as lfsr is not really necessary in most cases. - Move the paravirt PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK code to an asm header. - Add a patch to collect PV qspinlock statistics which also supersedes the PV lock hash debug patch. - Add PV qspinlock performance numbers. v14->v15: - Incorporate PeterZ's v15 qspinlock patch and improve

v15->v16: - Remove the lfsr patch and use linear probing as lfsr is not really necessary in most cases. - Move the paravirt PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK code to an asm header. - Add a patch to collect PV qspinlock statistics which also supersedes the PV lock hash debug patch. - Add PV qspinlock performance numbers. v14->v15: - Incorporate PeterZ's v15 qspinlock patch and improve

v14->v15: - Incorporate PeterZ's v15 qspinlock patch and improve upon the PV qspinlock code by dynamically allocating the hash table as well as some other performance optimization. - Simplified the Xen PV qspinlock code as suggested by David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>. - Add benchmarking data for 3.19 kernel to compare the performance of a spinlock heavy test

v14->v15: - Incorporate PeterZ's v15 qspinlock patch and improve upon the PV qspinlock code by dynamically allocating the hash table as well as some other performance optimization. - Simplified the Xen PV qspinlock code as suggested by David Vrabel <david.vrabel at citrix.com>. - Add benchmarking data for 3.19 kernel to compare the performance of a spinlock heavy test

v13->v14: - Patches 1 & 2: Add queue_spin_unlock_wait() to accommodate commit 78bff1c86 from Oleg Nesterov. - Fix the system hang problem when using PV qspinlock in an over-committed guest due to a racing condition in the pv_set_head_in_tail() function. - Increase the MAYHALT_THRESHOLD from 10 to 1024. - Change kick_cpu into a regular function pointer instead of a

v13->v14: - Patches 1 & 2: Add queue_spin_unlock_wait() to accommodate commit 78bff1c86 from Oleg Nesterov. - Fix the system hang problem when using PV qspinlock in an over-committed guest due to a racing condition in the pv_set_head_in_tail() function. - Increase the MAYHALT_THRESHOLD from 10 to 1024. - Change kick_cpu into a regular function pointer instead of a

v12->v13: - Change patch 9 to generate separate versions of the queue_spin_lock_slowpath functions for bare metal and PV guest. This reduces the performance impact of the PV code on bare metal systems. v11->v12: - Based on PeterZ's version of the qspinlock patch (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/15/63). - Incorporated many of the review comments from Konrad Wilk and Paolo

v12->v13: - Change patch 9 to generate separate versions of the queue_spin_lock_slowpath functions for bare metal and PV guest. This reduces the performance impact of the PV code on bare metal systems. v11->v12: - Based on PeterZ's version of the qspinlock patch (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/15/63). - Incorporated many of the review comments from Konrad Wilk and Paolo

v11->v12: - Based on PeterZ's version of the qspinlock patch (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/15/63). - Incorporated many of the review comments from Konrad Wilk and Paolo Bonzini. - The pvqspinlock code is largely from my previous version with PeterZ's way of going from queue tail to head and his idea of using callee saved calls to KVM and XEN codes. v10->v11: - Use a

v11->v12: - Based on PeterZ's version of the qspinlock patch (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/15/63). - Incorporated many of the review comments from Konrad Wilk and Paolo Bonzini. - The pvqspinlock code is largely from my previous version with PeterZ's way of going from queue tail to head and his idea of using callee saved calls to KVM and XEN codes. v10->v11: - Use a

v10->v11: - Use a simple test-and-set unfair lock to simplify the code, but performance may suffer a bit for large guest with many CPUs. - Take out Raghavendra KT's test results as the unfair lock changes may render some of his results invalid. - Add PV support without increasing the size of the core queue node structure. - Other minor changes to address some of the

v10->v11: - Use a simple test-and-set unfair lock to simplify the code, but performance may suffer a bit for large guest with many CPUs. - Take out Raghavendra KT's test results as the unfair lock changes may render some of his results invalid. - Add PV support without increasing the size of the core queue node structure. - Other minor changes to address some of the

v8->v9: - Integrate PeterZ's version of the queue spinlock patch with some modification: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140310154236.038181843 at infradead.org - Break the more complex patches into smaller ones to ease review effort. - Fix a racing condition in the PV qspinlock code. v7->v8: - Remove one unneeded atomic operation from the slowpath, thus improving

v8->v9: - Integrate PeterZ's version of the queue spinlock patch with some modification: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140310154236.038181843 at infradead.org - Break the more complex patches into smaller ones to ease review effort. - Fix a racing condition in the PV qspinlock code. v7->v8: - Remove one unneeded atomic operation from the slowpath, thus improving

v9->v10: - Make some minor changes to qspinlock.c to accommodate review feedback. - Change author to PeterZ for 2 of the patches. - Include Raghavendra KT's test results in patch 18. v8->v9: - Integrate PeterZ's version of the queue spinlock patch with some modification: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140310154236.038181843 at infradead.org - Break the more complex

v9->v10: - Make some minor changes to qspinlock.c to accommodate review feedback. - Change author to PeterZ for 2 of the patches. - Include Raghavendra KT's test results in patch 18. v8->v9: - Integrate PeterZ's version of the queue spinlock patch with some modification: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140310154236.038181843 at infradead.org - Break the more complex

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 02:47:01PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > From: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long at hp.com> > > This patch extracts the logic for the exchange of new and previous tail > code words into a new xchg_tail() function which can be optimized in a > later patch. And also adds a third try on acquiring the lock. That I think should be a seperate patch. And instead of

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 02:47:01PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > From: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long at hp.com> > > This patch extracts the logic for the exchange of new and previous tail > code words into a new xchg_tail() function which can be optimized in a > later patch. And also adds a third try on acquiring the lock. That I think should be a seperate patch. And instead of