Re: [PATCH 2/2] ipc/sem: sem_lock with hysteresis
From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Tue Jun 21 2016 - 16:30:45 EST
On Sat, 18 Jun 2016, Manfred Spraul wrote:
sysv sem has two lock modes: One with per-semaphore locks, one lock mode
with a single big lock for the whole array.
When switching from the per-semaphore locks to the big lock, all
per-semaphore locks must be scanned for ongoing operations.
The patch adds a hysteresis for switching from the big lock to the per
semaphore locks. This reduces how often the per-semaphore locks must
be scanned.
Isn't this very arbitrary depending on the workload? Ie the other way around:
when we have a lot more simple ops going on not so good. While I'm more worried
about combinations that could cause enough complex ops to always delay taking
the finer grained lock, this change also obviously makes simple ops more expensive
on newly created segments.
In general I don't trust magic numbers much. What sort of numbers have you seen
with this patch? Is this a real concern (particularly because a lot of the sem->lock
work was because real world workloads were doing a lot more simple ops afaicr)?
Thanks,
Davidlohr