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Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which

On 02/09/2015 02:44 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On 02/06/2015 06:49 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: [...] > >> Linus suggested that we should not do any writes to lock after unlock(), >> and we can move slowpath clearing to fastpath lock. > > Yep, that seems like a sound approach. Current approach seem to be working now. (though we could not avoid read). Related question:

On 02/09/2015 02:44 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On 02/06/2015 06:49 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: [...] > >> Linus suggested that we should not do any writes to lock after unlock(), >> and we can move slowpath clearing to fastpath lock. > > Yep, that seems like a sound approach. Current approach seem to be working now. (though we could not avoid read). Related question:

On 02/10, Raghavendra K T wrote: > > On 02/10/2015 06:23 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); >> if (READ_ONCE(lock->tickets.tail) & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) .. >> >> into something like >> >> val = xadd((&lock->ticket.head_tail, TICKET_LOCK_INC << TICKET_SHIFT);

On 02/10, Raghavendra K T wrote: > > On 02/10/2015 06:23 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); >> if (READ_ONCE(lock->tickets.tail) & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG) .. >> >> into something like >> >> val = xadd((&lock->ticket.head_tail, TICKET_LOCK_INC << TICKET_SHIFT);

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is

Paravirt spinlock clears slowpath flag after doing unlock. As explained by Linus currently it does: prev = *lock; add_smp(&lock->tickets.head, TICKET_LOCK_INC); /* add_smp() is a full mb() */ if (unlikely(lock->tickets.tail & TICKET_SLOWPATH_FLAG)) __ticket_unlock_slowpath(lock, prev); which is

Paravirtualized spinlocks produce some overhead even if the kernel is running on bare metal. The main reason are the more complex locking and unlocking functions. Especially unlocking is no longer just one instruction but so complex that it is no longer inlined. This patch series addresses this issue by adding two more pvops functions to reduce the size of the inlined spinlock functions. When

Paravirtualized spinlocks produce some overhead even if the kernel is running on bare metal. The main reason are the more complex locking and unlocking functions. Especially unlocking is no longer just one instruction but so complex that it is no longer inlined. This patch series addresses this issue by adding two more pvops functions to reduce the size of the inlined spinlock functions. When

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:04:22PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: >> So we have 3 choices, >> 1. xadd >> 2. continue with current approach. >> 3. a read before unlock and also after that. > > For the truly paranoid we have probe_kernel_address(), suppose the lock > was in

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:04:22PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: >> So we have 3 choices, >> 1. xadd >> 2. continue with current approach. >> 3. a read before unlock and also after that. > > For the truly paranoid we have probe_kernel_address(), suppose the lock > was in

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. (targeted for 3.5 window) Changes in V7: - Reabsed patches to 3.4-rc3 - Added jumplabel split patch (originally from Andrew Jones rebased to 3.4-rc3 - jumplabel changes from Ingo and Jason taken and now using

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge at citrix.com> This series replaces the existing paravirtualized spinlock mechanism with a paravirtualized ticketlock mechanism. (targeted for 3.5 window) Changes in V7: - Reabsed patches to 3.4-rc3 - Added jumplabel split patch (originally from Andrew Jones rebased to 3.4-rc3 - jumplabel changes from Ingo and Jason taken and now using