linux/include
Thomas Hellstrom 08295b3b5b locking: Implement an algorithm choice for Wound-Wait mutexes
The current Wound-Wait mutex algorithm is actually not Wound-Wait but
Wait-Die. Implement also Wound-Wait as a per-ww-class choice. Wound-Wait
is, contrary to Wait-Die a preemptive algorithm and is known to generate
fewer backoffs. Testing reveals that this is true if the
number of simultaneous contending transactions is small.
As the number of simultaneous contending threads increases, Wait-Wound
becomes inferior to Wait-Die in terms of elapsed time.
Possibly due to the larger number of held locks of sleeping transactions.

Update documentation and callers.

Timings using git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/ww_mutex_test
tag patch-18-06-15

Each thread runs 100000 batches of lock / unlock 800 ww mutexes randomly
chosen out of 100000. Four core Intel x86_64:

Algorithm    #threads       Rollbacks  time
Wound-Wait   4              ~100       ~17s.
Wait-Die     4              ~150000    ~19s.
Wound-Wait   16             ~360000    ~109s.
Wait-Die     16             ~450000    ~82s.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Co-authored-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-07-03 09:44:36 +02:00
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acpi Additional ACPI updates for 4.18-rc1 2018-06-13 07:32:10 -07:00
asm-generic int-ll64.h: define u{8,16,32,64} and s{8,16,32,64} based on uapi header 2018-06-07 17:34:38 -07:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-06-05 15:51:21 -07:00
drm drm-misc-next for 4.19: 2018-06-28 13:29:07 +10:00
dt-bindings drm-misc-next for 4.19: 2018-06-28 13:29:07 +10:00
keys docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
kvm
linux locking: Implement an algorithm choice for Wound-Wait mutexes 2018-07-03 09:44:36 +02:00
math-emu
media media: v4l2-core: push taking ioctl mutex down to ioctl handler 2018-05-28 16:31:44 -04:00
memory
misc ocxl: Expose the thread_id needed for wait on POWER9 2018-06-03 20:40:32 +10:00
net sctp: define sctp_packet_gso_append to build GSO frames 2018-06-14 10:25:53 -07:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Convert infiniband uverbs to struct_size 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20180610 2018-06-10 13:01:12 -07:00
soc ARM: SoC: late updates 2018-06-11 18:19:45 -07:00
sound sound updates for 4.18 2018-06-06 09:08:38 -07:00
target
trace NFS client updates for Linux 4.18 2018-06-12 10:09:03 -07:00
uapi Merge branch 'drm-next-4.19' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next 2018-06-22 13:19:05 +10:00
video fbdev changes for v4.18: 2018-06-17 05:00:24 +09:00
xen docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00