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Commit 1a993670 authored by Davidlohr Bueso's avatar Davidlohr Bueso Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/rwsem: Check for active lock before bailing on spinning



37e95624 ("locking/rwsem: Allow conservative optimistic
spinning when readers have lock") forced the default for
optimistic spinning to be disabled if the lock owner was
nil, which makes much sense for readers. However, while
it is not our priority, we can make some optimizations
for write-mostly workloads. We can bail the spinning step
and still be conservative if there are any active tasks,
otherwise there's really no reason not to spin, as the
semaphore is most likely unlocked.

This patch recovers most of a Unixbench 'execl' benchmark
throughput by sleeping less and making better average system
usage:

  before:
  CPU     %user     %nice   %system   %iowait    %steal     %idle
  all      0.60      0.00      8.02      0.00      0.00     91.38

  after:
  CPU     %user     %nice   %system   %iowait    %steal     %idle
  all      1.22      0.00     70.18      0.00      0.00     28.60

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1422609267-15102-6-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent b3fd4f03
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