powerpc/qspinlock: paravirt yield to lock owner
authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Sat, 26 Nov 2022 09:59:22 +0000 (19:59 +1000)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Fri, 2 Dec 2022 06:48:49 +0000 (17:48 +1100)
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
arch/powerpc/lib/qspinlock.c

index 4d74db0..18e2157 100644 (file)
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
 #include <asm/qspinlock.h>
+#include <asm/paravirt.h>
 
 #define MAX_NODES      4
 
@@ -24,14 +25,16 @@ static int steal_spins __read_mostly = (1 << 5);
 static bool maybe_stealers __read_mostly = true;
 static int head_spins __read_mostly = (1 << 8);
 
+static bool pv_yield_owner __read_mostly = true;
+
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct qnodes, qnodes);
 
-static __always_inline int get_steal_spins(void)
+static __always_inline int get_steal_spins(bool paravirt)
 {
        return steal_spins;
 }
 
-static __always_inline int get_head_spins(void)
+static __always_inline int get_head_spins(bool paravirt)
 {
        return head_spins;
 }
@@ -46,6 +49,11 @@ static inline int decode_tail_cpu(u32 val)
        return (val >> _Q_TAIL_CPU_OFFSET) - 1;
 }
 
+static inline int get_owner_cpu(u32 val)
+{
+       return (val & _Q_OWNER_CPU_MASK) >> _Q_OWNER_CPU_OFFSET;
+}
+
 /*
  * Try to acquire the lock if it was not already locked. If the tail matches
  * mytail then clear it, otherwise leave it unchnaged. Return previous value.
@@ -150,7 +158,45 @@ static struct qnode *get_tail_qnode(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val)
        BUG();
 }
 
-static inline bool try_to_steal_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
+static __always_inline void yield_to_locked_owner(struct qspinlock *lock, u32 val, bool paravirt)
+{
+       int owner;
+       u32 yield_count;
+
+       BUG_ON(!(val & _Q_LOCKED_VAL));
+
+       if (!paravirt)
+               goto relax;
+
+       if (!pv_yield_owner)
+               goto relax;
+
+       owner = get_owner_cpu(val);
+       yield_count = yield_count_of(owner);
+
+       if ((yield_count & 1) == 0)
+               goto relax; /* owner vcpu is running */
+
+       /*
+        * Read the lock word after sampling the yield count. On the other side
+        * there may a wmb because the yield count update is done by the
+        * hypervisor preemption and the value update by the OS, however this
+        * ordering might reduce the chance of out of order accesses and
+        * improve the heuristic.
+        */
+       smp_rmb();
+
+       if (READ_ONCE(lock->val) == val) {
+               yield_to_preempted(owner, yield_count);
+               /* Don't relax if we yielded. Maybe we should? */
+               return;
+       }
+relax:
+       cpu_relax();
+}
+
+
+static __always_inline bool try_to_steal_lock(struct qspinlock *lock, bool paravirt)
 {
        int iters = 0;
 
@@ -168,16 +214,16 @@ static inline bool try_to_steal_lock(struct qspinlock *lock)
                        if (__queued_spin_trylock_steal(lock))
                                return true;
                } else {
-                       cpu_relax();
+                       yield_to_locked_owner(lock, val, paravirt);
                }
 
                iters++;
-       } while (iters < get_steal_spins());
+       } while (iters < get_steal_spins(paravirt));
 
        return false;
 }
 
-static inline void queued_spin_lock_mcs_queue(struct qspinlock *lock)
+static __always_inline void queued_spin_lock_mcs_queue(struct qspinlock *lock, bool paravirt)
 {
        struct qnodes *qnodesp;
        struct qnode *next, *node;
@@ -235,12 +281,12 @@ again:
                if (!(val & _Q_LOCKED_VAL))
                        break;
 
-               cpu_relax();
+               yield_to_locked_owner(lock, val, paravirt);
                if (!maybe_stealers)
                        continue;
                iters++;
 
-               if (!mustq && iters >= get_head_spins()) {
+               if (!mustq && iters >= get_head_spins(paravirt)) {
                        mustq = true;
                        set_mustq(lock);
                        val |= _Q_MUST_Q_VAL;
@@ -276,10 +322,20 @@ release:
 
 void queued_spin_lock_slowpath(struct qspinlock *lock)
 {
-       if (try_to_steal_lock(lock))
-               return;
-
-       queued_spin_lock_mcs_queue(lock);
+       /*
+        * This looks funny, but it induces the compiler to inline both
+        * sides of the branch rather than share code as when the condition
+        * is passed as the paravirt argument to the functions.
+        */
+       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS) && is_shared_processor()) {
+               if (try_to_steal_lock(lock, true))
+                       return;
+               queued_spin_lock_mcs_queue(lock, true);
+       } else {
+               if (try_to_steal_lock(lock, false))
+                       return;
+               queued_spin_lock_mcs_queue(lock, false);
+       }
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(queued_spin_lock_slowpath);
 
@@ -345,10 +401,29 @@ static int head_spins_get(void *data, u64 *val)
 
 DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(fops_head_spins, head_spins_get, head_spins_set, "%llu\n");
 
+static int pv_yield_owner_set(void *data, u64 val)
+{
+       pv_yield_owner = !!val;
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
+static int pv_yield_owner_get(void *data, u64 *val)
+{
+       *val = pv_yield_owner;
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
+DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(fops_pv_yield_owner, pv_yield_owner_get, pv_yield_owner_set, "%llu\n");
+
 static __init int spinlock_debugfs_init(void)
 {
        debugfs_create_file("qspl_steal_spins", 0600, arch_debugfs_dir, NULL, &fops_steal_spins);
        debugfs_create_file("qspl_head_spins", 0600, arch_debugfs_dir, NULL, &fops_head_spins);
+       if (is_shared_processor()) {
+               debugfs_create_file("qspl_pv_yield_owner", 0600, arch_debugfs_dir, NULL, &fops_pv_yield_owner);
+       }
 
        return 0;
 }