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| author | Jason Low | 2014-01-28 11:13:14 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar | 2014-03-11 12:14:54 +0100 |
| commit | 1d8fe7dc8078b23e060ec62ccb4cdc1ac3c41bf8 (patch) | |
| tree | 1640ad75e3eea39dee169b8c415d53cd599e830c /kernel | |
| parent | 47667fa1502e4d759df87e9cc7fbc0f202483361 (diff) | |
locking/mutexes: Unlock the mutex without the wait_lock
When running workloads that have high contention in mutexes on an 8 socket
machine, mutex spinners would often spin for a long time with no lock owner.
The main reason why this is occuring is in __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(),
if __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock(), then the owner needs to acquire the
mutex->wait_lock before releasing the mutex (setting lock->count to 1). When
the wait_lock is contended, this delays the mutex from being released.
We should be able to release the mutex without holding the wait_lock.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: davidlohr@hp.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: scott.norton@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390936396-3962-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/locking/mutex.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c index 82dad2ccd40b..dc3d6f2bbe2a 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c +++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c @@ -671,10 +671,6 @@ __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(atomic_t *lock_count, int nested) struct mutex *lock = container_of(lock_count, struct mutex, count); unsigned long flags; - spin_lock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags); - mutex_release(&lock->dep_map, nested, _RET_IP_); - debug_mutex_unlock(lock); - /* * some architectures leave the lock unlocked in the fastpath failure * case, others need to leave it locked. In the later case we have to @@ -683,6 +679,10 @@ __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(atomic_t *lock_count, int nested) if (__mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock()) atomic_set(&lock->count, 1); + spin_lock_mutex(&lock->wait_lock, flags); + mutex_release(&lock->dep_map, nested, _RET_IP_); + debug_mutex_unlock(lock); + if (!list_empty(&lock->wait_list)) { /* get the first entry from the wait-list: */ struct mutex_waiter *waiter = |