4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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commit b247be3fe89b6aba928bf80f4453d1c4ba8d2063 upstream.
On x86, atomic_cond_read_relaxed will busy-wait with a cpu_relax() loop, so it is desirable to increase the number of times we spin on the qspinlock lockword when it is found to be transitioning from pending to locked.
According to Waiman Long:
| Ideally, the spinning times should be at least a few times the typical | cacheline load time from memory which I think can be down to 100ns or | so for each cacheline load with the newest systems or up to several | hundreds ns for older systems.
which in his benchmarking corresponded to 512 iterations.
Suggested-by: Waiman Long longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Acked-by: Waiman Long longman@redhat.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-5-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.c... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h index e07cc206919d..8b1ba1607091 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/qspinlock.h @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ #include <asm-generic/qspinlock_types.h> #include <asm/paravirt.h>
+#define _Q_PENDING_LOOPS (1 << 9) + #define queued_spin_unlock queued_spin_unlock /** * queued_spin_unlock - release a queued spinlock