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authorHitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>2010-10-05 18:01:51 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-10-18 18:44:25 +0200
commit620162505e5d46bc4494b1761743e4b0b3bf8e16 (patch)
tree462e6d2ecdcfdaa117c5b926325a0ce1d565571e /include/linux
parentf2f108eb4511f22a6f7568090cfcf4e7b2dc0f62 (diff)
lockdep: Add improved subclass caching
Current lockdep_map only caches one class with subclass == 0, and looks up hash table of classes when subclass != 0. It seems that this has no problem because the case of subclass != 0 is rare. But locks of struct rq are acquired with subclass == 1 when task migration is executed. Task migration is high frequent event, so I modified lockdep to cache subclasses. I measured the score of perf bench sched messaging. This patch has slightly but certain (order of milli seconds or 10 milli seconds) effect when lots of tasks are running. I'll show the result in the tail of this description. NR_LOCKDEP_CACHING_CLASSES specifies how many classes can be cached in the instances of lockdep_map. I discussed with Peter Zijlstra in LinuxCon Japan about this approach and he taught me that caching every subclasses(8) is cleary waste of memory. So number of cached classes should be configurable. === Score comparison of benchmarks === # "min" means best score, and "max" means worst score for i in `seq 1 10`; do ./perf bench -f simple sched messaging; done before: min: 0.565000, max: 0.583000, avg: 0.572500 after: min: 0.559000, max: 0.568000, avg: 0.563300 # with more processes for i in `seq 1 10`; do ./perf bench -f simple sched messaging -g 40; done before: min: 2.274000, max: 2.298000, avg: 2.286300 after: min: 2.242000, max: 2.270000, avg: 2.259700 Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1286269311-28336-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/lockdep.h13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
index 06aed8305bf..2186a64ee4b 100644
--- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -32,6 +32,17 @@ extern int lock_stat;
#define MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES 8UL
/*
+ * NR_LOCKDEP_CACHING_CLASSES ... Number of classes
+ * cached in the instance of lockdep_map
+ *
+ * Currently main class (subclass == 0) and signle depth subclass
+ * are cached in lockdep_map. This optimization is mainly targeting
+ * on rq->lock. double_rq_lock() acquires this highly competitive with
+ * single depth.
+ */
+#define NR_LOCKDEP_CACHING_CLASSES 2
+
+/*
* Lock-classes are keyed via unique addresses, by embedding the
* lockclass-key into the kernel (or module) .data section. (For
* static locks we use the lock address itself as the key.)
@@ -138,7 +149,7 @@ void clear_lock_stats(struct lock_class *class);
*/
struct lockdep_map {
struct lock_class_key *key;
- struct lock_class *class_cache;
+ struct lock_class *class_cache[NR_LOCKDEP_CACHING_CLASSES];
const char *name;
#ifdef CONFIG_LOCK_STAT
int cpu;