Re: [PATCH] iommu/iova: avoid false sharing on fq_timer_on

[Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>]

On 30/08/2019 11:49, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Looks good to me, but adding Robin for his opinion.

Sounds reasonable to me too - that should also be true for the majority 
of Arm systems that we know of. Will suggested that atomic_try_cmpxchg() 
might be relevant, but AFAICS that's backwards compared to what we want 
to do here, which I guess is more of an "atomic_unlikely_cmpxchg".

Acked-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>

Cheers,
Robin.

> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 06:13:38AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> In commit 14bd9a607f90 ("iommu/iova: Separate atomic variables
>> to improve performance") Jinyu Qi identified that the atomic_cmpxchg()
>> in queue_iova() was causing a performance loss and moved critical fields
>> so that the false sharing would not impact them.
>>
>> However, avoiding the false sharing in the first place seems easy.
>> We should attempt the atomic_cmpxchg() no more than 100 times
>> per second. Adding an atomic_read() will keep the cache
>> line mostly shared.
>>
>> This false sharing came with commit 9a005a800ae8
>> ("iommu/iova: Add flush timer").
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>> Cc: Jinyu Qi <jinyuqi@huawei.com>
>> Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
>> ---
>>   drivers/iommu/iova.c | 4 +++-
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iova.c b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
>> index 3e1a8a6755723a927a7942a7429ab7e6c19a0027..41c605b0058f9615c2dbdd83f1de2404a9b1d255 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iommu/iova.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iova.c
>> @@ -577,7 +577,9 @@ void queue_iova(struct iova_domain *iovad,
>>   
>>   	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fq->lock, flags);
>>   
>> -	if (atomic_cmpxchg(&iovad->fq_timer_on, 0, 1) == 0)
>> +	/* Avoid false sharing as much as possible. */
>> +	if (!atomic_read(&iovad->fq_timer_on) &&
>> +	    !atomic_cmpxchg(&iovad->fq_timer_on, 0, 1))
>>   		mod_timer(&iovad->fq_timer,
>>   			  jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(IOVA_FQ_TIMEOUT));
>>   }
>> -- 
>> 2.23.0.187.g17f5b7556c-goog