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When running workloads that have high contention in mutexes on an 8 socket machine, mutex spinners would often spin for a long time with no lock owner. The main reason why this is occuring is in __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(), if __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock(), then the owner needs to acquire the mutex->wait_lock before releasing the mutex (setting lock->count to 1). When the wait_lock is contended, this delays the mutex from being released. We should be able to release the mutex without holding the wait_lock. Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: chegu_vinod@hp.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: tglx@linutronix.de Cc: riel@redhat.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: davidlohr@hp.com Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: aswin@hp.com Cc: scott.norton@hp.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390936396-3962-4-git-send-email-jason.low2@hp.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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| lglock.c | ||
| lockdep.c | ||
| lockdep_internals.h | ||
| lockdep_proc.c | ||
| lockdep_states.h | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mcs_spinlock.h | ||
| mutex-debug.c | ||
| mutex-debug.h | ||
| mutex.c | ||
| mutex.h | ||
| percpu-rwsem.c | ||
| rtmutex-debug.c | ||
| rtmutex-debug.h | ||
| rtmutex-tester.c | ||
| rtmutex.c | ||
| rtmutex.h | ||
| rtmutex_common.h | ||
| rwsem-spinlock.c | ||
| rwsem-xadd.c | ||
| rwsem.c | ||
| semaphore.c | ||
| spinlock.c | ||
| spinlock_debug.c | ||