Commit-ID: aa68744f80bfb6f26fbe7f10e42876066f7dac1b Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/aa68744f80bfb6f26fbe7f10e42876066f7dac1b Author: Waiman Long <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 19:09:23 -0500 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:02:00 +0100
locking/qspinlock: Avoid redundant read of next pointer 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]> Cc: Douglas Hatch <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Scott J Norton <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file 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); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
