* Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 09:53 -0700, Tim Chen wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 15:16 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > vmstat for mutex implementation: > > > > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu----- > > > > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st > > > > 38 0 0 130957920 47860 199956 0 0 0 56 236342 476975 14 72 14 0 0 > > > > 41 0 0 130938560 47860 219900 0 0 0 0 236816 479676 14 72 14 0 0 > > > > > > > > vmstat for rw-sem implementation (3.10-rc4) > > > > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu----- > > > > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st > > > > 40 0 0 130933984 43232 202584 0 0 0 0 321817 690741 13 71 16 0 0 > > > > 39 0 0 130913904 43232 224812 0 0 0 0 322193 692949 13 71 16 0 0 > > > > > > It appears the main difference is that the rwsem variant context-switches > > > about 36% more than the mutex version, right? > > > > > > I'm wondering how that's possible - the lock is mostly write-locked, > > > correct? So the lock-stealing from Davidlohr Bueso and Michel Lespinasse > > > ought to have brought roughly the same lock-stealing behavior as mutexes > > > do, right? > > > > > > So the next analytical step would be to figure out why rwsem lock-stealing > > > is not behaving in an equivalent fashion on this workload. Do readers come > > > in frequently enough to disrupt write-lock-stealing perhaps? > > Ingo, > > I did some instrumentation on the write lock failure path. I found that > for the exim workload, there are no readers blocking for the rwsem when > write locking failed. The lock stealing is successful for 9.1% of the > time and the rest of the write lock failure caused the writer to go to > sleep. About 1.4% of the writers sleep more than once. Majority of the > writers sleep once. > > It is weird that lock stealing is not successful more often. For this to be comparable to the mutex scalability numbers you'd have to compare wlock-stealing _and_ adaptive spinning for failed-wlock rwsems. Are both techniques applied in the kernel you are running your tests on? Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>