With optimistic prefetch of the next node cacheline, the next pointer
may have been properly inititalized. As a result, the reading
of node->next in the contended path may be redundant. This patch
eliminates the redundant read if the next pointer value is not NULL.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <waiman.l...@hpe.com>
---
kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
index 365b203..9862078 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
@@ -396,6 +396,7 @@ queue:
* p,*,* -> n,*,*
*/
old = xchg_tail(lock, tail);
+ next = NULL;
/*
* if there was a previous node; link it and wait until reaching the
@@ -463,10 +464,12 @@ queue:
}
/*
- * contended path; wait for next, release.
+ * contended path; wait for next if not observed yet, release.
*/
- while (!(next = READ_ONCE(node->next)))
- cpu_relax();
+ if (!next) {
+ while (!(next = READ_ONCE(node->next)))
+ cpu_relax();
+ }
arch_mcs_spin_unlock_contended(&next->locked);
pv_kick_node(lock, next);
--
1.7.1
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