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author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2011-05-24 11:12:58 +0200 |
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committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2011-05-24 12:10:51 +0200 |
commit | 8af088710d1eb3c980e0ef3779c8d47f3f217b48 (patch) | |
tree | e122a2e65684f0a40d263ba73afe3d54a2c5993a /kernel | |
parent | d762f4383100c2a87b1a3f2d678cd3b5425655b4 (diff) |
posix-timers: RCU conversion
Ben Nagy reported a scalability problem with KVM/QEMU that hit very hard
a single spinlock (idr_lock) in posix-timers code, on its 48 core
machine.
Even on a 16 cpu machine (2x4x2), a single test can show 98% of cpu time
used in ticket_spin_lock, from lock_timer
Ref: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg51526.html
Switching to RCU is quite easy, IDR being already RCU ready. idr_lock
should be locked only for an insert/delete, not a lookup.
Benchmark on a 2x4x2 machine, 16 processes calling timer_gettime().
Before :
real 1m18.669s
user 0m1.346s
sys 1m17.180s
After :
real 0m3.296s
user 0m1.366s
sys 0m1.926s
Reported-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ben Nagy <ben@iagu.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/posix-timers.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/posix-timers.c b/kernel/posix-timers.c index a1b5edf1bf9..4556182527f 100644 --- a/kernel/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-timers.c @@ -491,6 +491,13 @@ static struct k_itimer * alloc_posix_timer(void) return tmr; } +static void k_itimer_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head) +{ + struct k_itimer *tmr = container_of(head, struct k_itimer, it.rcu); + + kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr); +} + #define IT_ID_SET 1 #define IT_ID_NOT_SET 0 static void release_posix_timer(struct k_itimer *tmr, int it_id_set) @@ -503,7 +510,7 @@ static void release_posix_timer(struct k_itimer *tmr, int it_id_set) } put_pid(tmr->it_pid); sigqueue_free(tmr->sigq); - kmem_cache_free(posix_timers_cache, tmr); + call_rcu(&tmr->it.rcu, k_itimer_rcu_free); } static struct k_clock *clockid_to_kclock(const clockid_t id) @@ -631,22 +638,18 @@ out: static struct k_itimer *__lock_timer(timer_t timer_id, unsigned long *flags) { struct k_itimer *timr; - /* - * Watch out here. We do a irqsave on the idr_lock and pass the - * flags part over to the timer lock. Must not let interrupts in - * while we are moving the lock. - */ - spin_lock_irqsave(&idr_lock, *flags); + + rcu_read_lock(); timr = idr_find(&posix_timers_id, (int)timer_id); if (timr) { - spin_lock(&timr->it_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&timr->it_lock, *flags); if (timr->it_signal == current->signal) { - spin_unlock(&idr_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); return timr; } - spin_unlock(&timr->it_lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timr->it_lock, *flags); } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&idr_lock, *flags); + rcu_read_unlock(); return NULL; } |