On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:35 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> double_lock balance() currently favors logically lower cpus since they
> often do not have to release their own lock to acquire a second lock.
> The result is that logically higher cpus can get starved when there is
> a lot of pressure on the RQs. This can result in higher latencies on
> higher cpu-ids.
>
> This patch makes the algorithm more fair by forcing all paths to have
> to release both locks before acquiring them again. Since callsites to
> double_lock_balance already consider it a potential preemption/reschedule
> point, they have the proper logic to recheck for atomicity violations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> kernel/sched.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
> index df6b447..850b454 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -2782,21 +2782,43 @@ static void double_rq_unlock(struct rq *rq1, struct rq *rq2)
> __release(rq2->lock);
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
> +
> /*
> - * double_lock_balance - lock the busiest runqueue, this_rq is locked already.
> + * fair double_lock_balance: Safely acquires both rq->locks in a fair
> + * way at the expense of forcing extra atomic operations in all
> + * invocations. This assures that the double_lock is acquired using the
> + * same underlying policy as the spinlock_t on this architecture, which
> + * reduces latency compared to the unfair variant below. However, it
> + * also adds more overhead and therefore may reduce throughput.
> */
> -static int double_lock_balance(struct rq *this_rq, struct rq *busiest)
> +static inline int _double_lock_balance(struct rq *this_rq, struct rq *busiest)
> + __releases(this_rq->lock)
> + __acquires(busiest->lock)
> + __acquires(this_rq->lock)
> +{
> + spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock);
> + double_rq_lock(this_rq, busiest);
> +
> + return 1;
> +}
Right - so to belabour Nick's point:
if (!spin_trylock(&busiest->lock)) {
spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock);
double_rq_lock(this_rq, busiest);
}
might unfairly treat someone who is waiting on this_rq if I understand
it right?
I suppose one could then write it like:
if (spin_is_contended(&this_rq->lock) || !spin_trylock(&busiest->lock)) {
spin_unlock(&this_rq->lock);
double_rq_lock(this_rq, busiest);
}
But, I'm not sure that's worth the effort at that point..
Anyway - I think all this is utterly defeated on CONFIG_PREEMPT by the
spin with IRQs enabled logic in kernel/spinlock.c.
Making this an -rt only patch...
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