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Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock
Date 2016-06-25 18:10 +0200
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On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 11:21:30PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > 
> > 	int vpc = vcpu_preempt_count();
> > 
> > 	...
> > 
> > 	for (;;) {
> > 
> > 		/* the big spin loop */
> > 
> > 		if (need_resched() || vpc != vcpu_preempt_count())
> 
> So on PPC, we have lppaca::yield_count to detect when an vcpu is

Which sounds like just the value we want.. And I suspect that on x86 KVM
and Xen have similar numbers stashed away someplace.

> preempted, if the yield_count is even, the vcpu is running, otherwise it
> is preempted(__spin_yield() is a user of this).
> 
> Therefore it makes more sense we
> 
> 		if (need_resched() || vcpu_is_preempted(old))
> 
> here, and implement vcpu_is_preempted() on PPC as
> 
> bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
> {
> 	return !!(be32_to_cpu(lppaca_of(cpu).yield_count) & 1)
> }
> 
> Thoughts?

That works here, but it would not work for the need_resched() in
mutex_spin_on_owner() and mutex_optimistic_spin() which need equal
treatment.

Because those too we want to limit.

The count thing, while a little more cumbersome, is more widely
applicable than just the one OSQ case where we happen to have a cpu
number.

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[PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-25 15:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-25 16:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-25 17:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-25 18:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-25 18:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock panxinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-25 19:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-25 21:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock panxinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-26 07:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-27 10:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-27 12:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-25 18:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-25 20:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-25 18:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-25 18:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock panxinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-25 19:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-25 21:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-25 21:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 04:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock panxinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-26 07:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 08:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock panxinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-26 09:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 16:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock panxinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-26 18:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 09:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock panxinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-26 09:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-26 16:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock panxinhui <xinhui@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-26 17:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-27 08:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-06-27 09:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-27 10:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq lock Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> - 2016-06-27 12:30 +0200

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