Hi All, this is the fairlock patchset. You can apply them and build successfully. patches are based on linux-next qspinlock can avoid waiter starved issue. It has about the same speed in single-thread and it can be much faster in high contention situations especially when the spinlock is embedded within the data structure to be protected. v8 -> v9: mv qspinlocm config entry to platforms/kconfig fix comments and remove unnecessary codes, thanks boqun reviewing. v7 -> v8: add one patch to drop a function call under native qspinlock unlock. Enabling qspinlock or not is a complier option now. rebase onto linux-next(4.9-rc7) v6 -> v7: rebase onto 4.8-rc4 v1 -> v6: too many details. snip. some benchmark result below perf bench these numbers are ops per sec, So the higher the better. ******************************************* on pSeries with 32 vcpus, 32Gb memory, pHyp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ test case | pv-qspinlock | qspinlock | current-spinlock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ futex hash | 618572 | 552332 | 553788 futex lock-pi | 364 | 364 | 364 sched pipe | 78984 | 76060 | 81454 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ unix bench: these numbers are scores, So the higher the better. ************************************************ on PowerNV with 16 cores(cpus) (smt off), 32Gb memory: ------------- pv-qspinlock and qspinlock have very similar results because pv-qspinlock use native version which is only having one callback overhead ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ test case | pv-qspinlock and qspinlock | current-spinlock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Execl Throughput 761.1 761.4 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1259.8 1286.6 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 782.2 790.3 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2741.5 2817.4 Pipe Throughput 1063.2 1036.7 Pipe-based Context Switching 284.7 281.1 Process Creation 679.6 649.1 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1933.2 1922.9 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 5003.3 4899.8 System Call Overhead 900.6 896.8 ========================== System Benchmarks Index Score 1139.3 1133.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- ******************************************* on pSeries with 32 vcpus, 32Gb memory, pHyp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ test case | pv-qspinlock | qspinlock | current-spinlock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Execl Throughput 877.1 891.2 872.8 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1390.4 1399.2 1395.0 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 882.4 889.5 881.8 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 3112.3 3113.4 3121.7 Pipe Throughput 1095.8 1162.6 1158.5 Pipe-based Context Switching 194.9 192.7 200.7 Process Creation 518.4 526.4 509.1 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1401.9 1413.9 1402.2 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 3215.6 3246.6 3229.1 System Call Overhead 833.2 892.4 888.1 ==================================== System Benchmarks Index Score 1033.7 1052.5 1047.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ****************************************** on pSeries with 32 vcpus, 16Gb memory, KVM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ test case | pv-qspinlock | qspinlock | current-spinlock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Execl Throughput 497.4 518.7 497.8 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 1368.8 1390.1 1343.3 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 857.7 859.8 831.4 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 2851.7 2838.1 2785.5 Pipe Throughput 1221.9 1265.3 1250.4 Pipe-based Context Switching 529.8 578.1 564.2 Process Creation 408.4 421.6 287.6 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 1201.8 1215.3 1185.8 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 3758.4 3799.3 3878.9 System Call Overhead 1008.3 1122.6 1134.2 ===================================== System Benchmarks Index Score 1072.0 1108.9 1050.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pan Xinhui (6): powerpc/qspinlock: powerpc support qspinlock powerpc: platforms/Kconfig: Add qspinlock build config powerpc: lib/locks.c: Add cpu yield/wake helper function powerpc/pv-qspinlock: powerpc support pv-qspinlock powerpc: pSeries: Add pv-qspinlock build config/make powerpc/pv-qspinlock: Optimise native unlock path arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock.h | 93 ++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 52 +++++++ .../powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock_paravirt_types.h | 13 ++ arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h | 35 +++-- arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock_types.h | 4 + arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/powerpc/kernel/paravirt.c | 157 +++++++++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/lib/locks.c | 123 ++++++++++++++++ arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig | 9 ++ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/Kconfig | 8 ++ arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 5 + 11 files changed, 487 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock.h create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock_paravirt.h create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/qspinlock_paravirt_types.h create mode 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