Re: [PATCH -v4 2/8] locking/mutex: Rework mutex::owner

[Jason Low]

On Wed, 2016-10-12 at 10:59 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >+/*
> >+ * Optimistic trylock that only works in the uncontended case. Make sure to
> >+ * follow with a __mutex_trylock() before failing.
> >+ */
> >+static __always_inline bool __mutex_trylock_fast(struct mutex *lock)
> >+{
> >+	unsigned long curr = (unsigned long)current;
> >+
> >+	if (!atomic_long_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->owner, 0UL, curr))
> >+		return true;
> 
> Do we want to do a ccas check for !lock->owner? Although I can see a possible
> case of 'optimizing for the contended' reasons for nay.

Since this is the fast path version that gets used in mutex_lock(),
ect..., I think it would make sense to keep it like it is so that we
optimize it for the "common" case. This trylock function is more likely
to succeed as it is used for the initial attempt to get the mutex, so I
think we could avoid the ccas in the trylock_fast().

Jason