Queued waiters which are not at the head of the queue don't spin on
the lock word but their qnode lock word, waiting for the previous queued
CPU to release them. Add an option which allows these waiters to yield
to the previous CPU if its vCPU is preempted.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221126095932.1234527-9-npiggin@gmail.com
Waiters spinning on the lock word should yield to the lock owner if the
vCPU is preempted. This improves performance when the hypervisor has
oversubscribed physical CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221126095932.1234527-8-npiggin@gmail.com
Store the owner CPU number in the lock word so it may be yielded to,
as powerpc's paravirtualised simple spinlocks do.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221126095932.1234527-7-npiggin@gmail.com
Give the queue head the ability to stop stealers. After a number of
spins without successfully acquiring the lock, the queue head sets
this, which halts stealing and will assure it is the next owner.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221126095932.1234527-6-npiggin@gmail.com
Allow new waiters to "steal" the lock before queueing. That is, to
acquire it while other CPUs have queued.
This particularly helps paravirt performance when physical CPUs are
oversubscribed, by keeping the lock from becoming a strict FIFO and
vCPU preemption causing queue train wrecks.
The new __queued_spin_trylock_steal() function is put in qspinlock.h
to save having to move it, because it will be used there by a later
change.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221126095932.1234527-5-npiggin@gmail.com
This uses more optimal ll/sc style access patterns (rather than
cmpxchg), and also sets the EH=1 lock hint on those operations
which acquire ownership of the lock.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221126095932.1234527-4-npiggin@gmail.com
This forms the basis of the qspinlock slow path.
Like generic qspinlocks and unlike the vanilla MCS algorithm, the lock
owner does not participate in the queue, only waiters. The first waiter
spins on the lock word, then when the lock is released it takes
ownership and unqueues the next waiter. This is how qspinlocks can be
implemented with the spinlock API -- lock owners don't need a node, only
waiters do.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221126095932.1234527-2-npiggin@gmail.com
Add a powerpc specific implementation of queued spinlocks. This is the
build framework with a very simple (non-queued) spinlock implementation
to begin with. Later changes add queueing, and other features and
optimisations one-at-a-time. It is done this way to more easily see how
the queued spinlocks are built, and to make performance and correctness
bisects more useful.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Drop paravirt.h & processor.h changes to fix 32-bit build]
[mpe: Fix 32-bit build of qspinlock.o & disallow GENERIC_LOCKBREAK per Nick]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CONLLQB6DCJU.2ZPOS7T6S5GRR@bobo
