Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] qspinlock: Introducing a 4-byte queue spinlock

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/17/2014 12:41 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> v3->v4:
>  - Remove debugging code and fix a configuration error
>  - Simplify the qspinlock structure and streamline the code to make it
>    perform a bit better
>  - Add an x86 version of asm/qspinlock.h for holding x86 specific
>    optimization.
>  - Add an optimized x86 code path for 2 contending tasks to improve
>    low contention performance.
> 
> v2->v3:
>  - Simplify the code by using numerous mode only without an unfair option.
>  - Use the latest smp_load_acquire()/smp_store_release() barriers.
>  - Move the queue spinlock code to kernel/locking.
>  - Make the use of queue spinlock the default for x86-64 without user
>    configuration.
>  - Additional performance tuning.
> 
> v1->v2:
>  - Add some more comments to document what the code does.
>  - Add a numerous CPU mode to support >= 16K CPUs
>  - Add a configuration option to allow lock stealing which can further
>    improve performance in many cases.
>  - Enable wakeup of queue head CPU at unlock time for non-numerous
>    CPU mode.
> 
> This patch set introduces a queue-based spinlock implementation that
> can replace the default ticket spinlock without increasing the size
> of the spinlock data structure. As a result, critical kernel data
> structures that embed spinlock won't increase in size and breaking
> data alignments.
> 

This is starting to look good, so I have pulled it into
tip:x86/spinlocks to start give it some testing mileage.

	-hpa


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