[PATCH v2 0/7] Enable queued rwlock and queued spinlock for SPARC
From: Babu Moger
Date: Fri May 19 2017 - 20:19:00 EST
This series of patches enables queued rwlock and queued spinlock support
for SPARC. These features were introduced some time ago in upstream.
Here are some of the earlier discussions.
https://lwn.net/Articles/572765/
https://lwn.net/Articles/582200/
https://lwn.net/Articles/561775/
https://lwn.net/Articles/590243/
Tests: Ran AIM7 benchmark to verify the performance on various workloads.
https://github.com/davidlohr/areaim. Same benchmark was used when this
feature was introduced and enabled on x86. Here are the test results.
Kernel 4.11.0-rc6 4.11.0-rc6 + Change
baseline queued locks
(Avg No.of jobs) (Avg No.of jobs)
Workload
High systime 10-100 user 17290.48 17295.18 +0.02
High systime 200-1000 users 109814.95 110248.87 +0.39
High systime 1200-2000 users 107912.40 127923.16 +18.54
Disk IO 10-100 users 168910.16 158834.17 -5.96
Disk IO 200-1000 users 242781.74 281285.80 +15.85
Disk IO 1200-2000 users 228518.23 218421.23 -4.41
Disk IO 10-100 users 183933.77 207928.67 +13.04
Disk IO 200-1000 users 491981.56 500162.33 +1.66
Disk IO 1200-2000 users 463395.66 467312.70 +0.84
fserver 10-100 users 254177.53 270283.08 +6.33
fserver IO 200-1000 users 269017.35 324812.2 +20.74
fserver IO 1200-2000 users 229538.87 284713.77 +24.03
Disk I/O results are little bit in negative territory. But majority of the
performance changes are in positive and it is significant in some cases.
Changes:
v1->v2:
Addressed the comments from David Miller.
1. Added CPU_BIG_ENDIAN for all SPARC
2. Removed #ifndef __LINUX_SPINLOCK_TYPES_H guard from spinlock_types.h
3. Removed check for CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCKS in SPARC64 as it is the
default definition for SPARC64 now. Cleaned-up the previous arch_read_xxx
and arch_write_xxx definitions as it is defined now in qrwlock.h.
4. Removed check for CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS in SPARC64 as it is the default
definition now for SPARC64 now. Cleaned-up the previous arch_spin_xxx
definitions as it is defined in qspinlock.h.
v1: Initial version
Babu Moger (7):
kernel/locking: Fix compile error with qrwlock.c
arch/sparc: Remove the check #ifndef __LINUX_SPINLOCK_TYPES_H
arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
arch/sparc: Introduce cmpxchg_u8 SPARC
arch/sparc: Enable queued rwlocks for SPARC
arch/sparc: Introduce xchg16 for SPARC
arch/sparc: Enable queued spinlock support for SPARC
arch/sparc/Kconfig | 6 +
arch/sparc/include/asm/cmpxchg_64.h | 76 ++++++++++--
arch/sparc/include/asm/qrwlock.h | 7 +
arch/sparc/include/asm/qspinlock.h | 7 +
arch/sparc/include/asm/spinlock_64.h | 208 +------------------------------
arch/sparc/include/asm/spinlock_types.h | 12 ++-
include/asm-generic/qrwlock_types.h | 6 +-
kernel/locking/qrwlock.c | 1 +
8 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 222 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/sparc/include/asm/qrwlock.h
create mode 100644 arch/sparc/include/asm/qspinlock.h