linux/Documentation
Thomas Hellstrom 08295b3b5b locking: Implement an algorithm choice for Wound-Wait mutexes
The current Wound-Wait mutex algorithm is actually not Wound-Wait but
Wait-Die. Implement also Wound-Wait as a per-ww-class choice. Wound-Wait
is, contrary to Wait-Die a preemptive algorithm and is known to generate
fewer backoffs. Testing reveals that this is true if the
number of simultaneous contending transactions is small.
As the number of simultaneous contending threads increases, Wait-Wound
becomes inferior to Wait-Die in terms of elapsed time.
Possibly due to the larger number of held locks of sleeping transactions.

Update documentation and callers.

Timings using git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/ww_mutex_test
tag patch-18-06-15

Each thread runs 100000 batches of lock / unlock 800 ww mutexes randomly
chosen out of 100000. Four core Intel x86_64:

Algorithm    #threads       Rollbacks  time
Wound-Wait   4              ~100       ~17s.
Wait-Die     4              ~150000    ~19s.
Wound-Wait   16             ~360000    ~109s.
Wait-Die     16             ~450000    ~82s.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Co-authored-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-07-03 09:44:36 +02:00
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ABI ABI: sysfs-devices-system-cpu: remove a broken reference 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
accelerators ocxl: Document new OCXL IOCTLs 2018-06-03 20:40:33 +10:00
accounting
acpi ACPI / Documentation: update ACPI customize method feature docs 2018-06-06 08:48:00 +02:00
admin-guide kernel-parameters.txt: fix pointers to sound parameters 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
aoe
arm ARM: Device-tree updates 2018-06-11 17:57:38 -07:00
arm64 ARM: 2018-04-09 11:42:31 -07:00
auxdisplay Doc: misc-devices: move lcd-panel-cgram.txt to auxdisplay/ 2018-04-12 16:08:02 +02:00
backlight
block block: remov blk_queue_invalidate_tags 2018-06-15 08:13:35 -06:00
blockdev zram: introduce zram memory tracking 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
bpf bpf, doc: howto use/run the BPF selftests 2018-05-14 23:02:58 -07:00
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroup-v1 page cache: use xa_lock 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
cma
connector
console
core-api Printk changes for 4.18 2018-06-06 16:04:55 -07:00
cpu-freq cpufreq: Drop cpufreq_table_validate_and_show() 2018-04-10 08:40:45 +02:00
cpuidle cpuidle: Add definition of residency to sysfs documentation 2018-04-09 13:44:37 +02:00
crypto docs: crypto_engine.rst: Fix two parse warnings 2018-06-15 12:48:59 -03:00
dev-tools doc: dev-tools: kselftest.rst: update contributing new tests 2018-04-27 16:56:15 -06:00
device-mapper dm: add writecache target 2018-06-08 11:59:51 -04:00
devicetree drm-misc-next for 4.19: 2018-06-28 13:29:07 +10:00
doc-guide MAINTAINERS & files: Canonize the e-mails I use at files 2018-05-04 06:21:06 -04:00
driver-api docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
driver-model
early-userspace
EDID
extcon
fault-injection
fb
features Kbuild: rename HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR config variable 2018-06-15 07:15:28 +09:00
filesystems The main piece is a set of libceph changes that revamps how OSD 2018-06-15 07:24:58 +09:00
firmware_class
fmc
gpio
gpu Merge branch 'drm-next-4.19' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux into drm-next 2018-06-22 13:19:05 +10:00
hid
hwmon docs: Fix more broken references 2018-06-15 18:11:26 -03:00
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ia64
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ioctl SCSI misc on 20180610 2018-06-10 13:01:12 -07:00
isdn
kbuild Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables 2018-06-14 12:21:18 +09:00
kdump
kernel-hacking
laptops platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: silence HKEY 0x6032, 0x60f0, 0x6030 2018-05-07 15:10:31 +03:00
leds
lightnvm
livepatch livepatch: Remove not longer valid limitations from the documentation 2018-05-24 15:37:57 +02:00
locking locking: Implement an algorithm choice for Wound-Wait mutexes 2018-07-03 09:44:36 +02:00
m68k
maintainer docs: Fix more broken references 2018-06-15 18:11:26 -03:00
md
media media: cec: improve cec status documentation 2018-05-25 15:34:50 -04:00
memory-devices
mic
mips
misc-devices Mostly small fixes and cleanups, plus a non-trivial fix for charlcd 2018-06-07 14:01:16 -07:00
mmc
mtd
namespaces
netlabel
networking docs: can.rst: fix a footnote reference 2018-06-15 12:48:59 -03:00
nfc
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openrisc
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PCI PCI/AER: Handle ERR_FATAL with removal and re-enumeration of devices 2018-05-17 16:44:13 -05:00
pcmcia
perf
phy
platform
power firmware: Fix firmware documentation for recent file renames 2018-04-23 13:03:26 +02:00
powerpc
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process There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, 2018-06-04 12:34:27 -07:00
pti
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RCU doc: Ensure whatisRCU.txt actually says what RCU is 2018-05-15 10:28:12 -07:00
riscv perf: riscv: Add Document for Future Porting Guide 2018-06-04 14:02:11 -07:00
s390
scheduler sched/deadline/Documentation: Add overrun signal and GRUB-PA documentation 2018-05-14 09:12:27 +02:00
scsi block: remove BLK_EH_HANDLED 2018-05-29 08:59:21 -06:00
security Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables 2018-06-14 12:21:18 +09:00
serial
sh
sound sound updates for 4.18 2018-06-06 09:08:38 -07:00
sparc
sphinx Documentation: rstFlatTable.py: fix a broken reference 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
sphinx-static
spi
sysctl Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-06-06 18:39:49 -07:00
target
thermal
timers
trace docs: Fix some broken references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
translations fix a series of Documentation/ broken file name references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
usb
userspace-api audit/stable-4.18 PR 20180605 2018-06-06 16:34:00 -07:00
virtual KVM: docs: nVMX: Remove known limitations as they do not exist now 2018-06-01 19:18:28 +02:00
vm docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. 2018-05-29 06:45:55 -06:00
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kobject.txt
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pwm.txt
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rfkill.txt
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static-keys.txt
SubmittingPatches
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