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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead•org>
To: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	paulmck@linux•vnet.ibm.com, mingo@redhat•com, mpe@ellerman•id.au,
	paulus@samba•org, benh@kernel•crashing.org, Waiman.Long@hpe•com,
	boqun.feng@gmail•com, will.deacon@arm•com, dave@stgolabs•net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq_lock()
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:21:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160627142155.GP30921@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467049290-32359-4-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 01:41:30PM -0400, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> @@ -118,8 +123,17 @@ bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock)
>  	while (!READ_ONCE(node->locked)) {
>  		/*
>  		 * If we need to reschedule bail... so we can block.
> +		 * An over-committed guest with more vCPUs than pCPUs
> +		 * might fall in this loop and cause a huge overload.
> +		 * This is because vCPU A(prev) hold the osq lock and yield out
> +		 * vCPU B(node) wait ->locked to be set, IOW, it wait utill
> +		 * vCPU A run and unlock the osq lock. Such spin is meaningless
> +		 * use vcpu_is_preempted to detech such case. IF arch does not
> +		 * support vcpu preempted check, vcpu_is_preempted is a macro
> +		 * defined by false.

Or you could mention lock holder preemption and everybody will know what
you're talking about.

>  		 */
> -		if (need_resched())
> +		if (need_resched() ||
> +			vcpu_is_preempted(node_cpu(node->prev)))

Did you really need that linebreak?

>  			goto unqueue;
>  
>  		cpu_relax_lowlatency();
> -- 
> 2.4.11
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2016-06-27 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-27 17:41 [PATCH 0/3] implement vcpu preempted check Pan Xinhui
2016-06-27 17:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] kernel/sched: introduce vcpu preempted check interface Pan Xinhui
2016-06-27 14:00   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-27 14:02     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-28  3:14       ` xinhui
2016-06-28  7:00     ` Heiko Carstens
2016-06-28  9:47       ` xinhui
2016-06-27 14:05   ` Boqun Feng
2016-06-28  3:15     ` xinhui
2016-06-27 17:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/spinlock: support vcpu preempted check Pan Xinhui
2016-06-27 14:17   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-28  3:23     ` xinhui
2016-06-27 14:58   ` Boqun Feng
2016-06-28  3:39     ` xinhui
2016-06-28  5:03       ` Boqun Feng
2016-06-28  5:38         ` xinhui
2016-06-27 17:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq_lock() Pan Xinhui
2016-06-27 14:21   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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