From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SRINIVAS <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: Question about qspinlock nest
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:06:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190118200657.GE27931@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abf2dfe7-e148-b011-764d-b9effa573d5d@redhat.com>
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 09:50:12AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 01/18/2019 05:02 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >
> >> e.g. We can't take an SError during the SError handler.
> >>
> >> But we can take this SError/NMI on another CPU while the first one is still
> >> running the handler.
> >>
> >> These multiple NMIlike notifications mean having multiple locks/fixmap-slots,
> >> one per notification. This is where the qspinlock node limit comes in, as we
> >> could have more than 4 contexts.
> > Right; so Waiman was going to do a patch that reverts to test-and-set or
> > something along those lines once we hit the queue limit, which seems
> > like a good way out. Actually hitting that nesting level should be
> > exceedingly rare.
>
> Yes, I am working on a patch to support arbitrary levels of nesting. It
> is easy for PV qspinlock as lock stealing is supported.
>
> For native qspinlock, we cannot do lock stealing without incurring a
> certain amount of overhead in the regular slowpath code. It was up to
> 10% in my own testing. So I am exploring an alternative that can do the
> job without incurring any noticeable performance degradation in the
> slowpath. I ran into a race condition which I am still trying to find
> out where that comes from. Hopefully, I will have something to post next
> week.
Where does the overhead come from? Surely that's not just checking that
bound?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-18 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-10 8:02 Question about qspinlock nest Zhenzhong Duan
2019-01-10 14:43 ` Waiman Long
2019-01-10 18:25 ` James Morse
2019-01-10 19:23 ` Waiman Long
2019-01-10 20:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-11 18:32 ` James Morse
2019-01-14 13:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-14 13:54 ` James Morse
2019-01-14 21:07 ` Waiman Long
2019-01-18 10:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-18 10:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-18 14:50 ` Waiman Long
2019-01-18 20:06 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2019-01-18 21:30 ` Waiman Long
[not found] ` <2eca6f60-3e8b-a389-27cb-8adbd9676607@oracle.com>
2019-01-11 9:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-11 17:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-01-11 16:59 ` Waiman Long
2019-01-10 20:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-14 9:25 Zhenzhong Duan
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