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Manfred Spraul 9de5ab8a2e ipc/sem: add hysteresis
sysv sem has two lock modes: One with per-semaphore locks, one lock mode
with a single global lock for the whole array.  When switching from the
per-semaphore locks to the global lock, all per-semaphore locks must be
scanned for ongoing operations.

The patch adds a hysteresis for switching from the global lock to the
per semaphore locks.  This reduces how often the per-semaphore locks
must be scanned.

Compared to the initial patch, this is a simplified solution: Setting
USE_GLOBAL_LOCK_HYSTERESIS to 1 restores the current behavior.

In theory, a workload with exactly 10 simple sops and then one complex
op now scales a bit worse, but this is pure theory: If there is
concurrency, the it won't be exactly 10:1:10:1:10:1:...  If there is no
concurrency, then there is no need for scalability.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00

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#ifndef _LINUX_SEM_H
#define _LINUX_SEM_H
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/cache.h>
#include <uapi/linux/sem.h>
struct task_struct;
/* One sem_array data structure for each set of semaphores in the system. */
struct sem_array {
struct kern_ipc_perm ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp
sem_perm; /* permissions .. see ipc.h */
time_t sem_ctime; /* last change time */
struct sem *sem_base; /* ptr to first semaphore in array */
struct list_head pending_alter; /* pending operations */
/* that alter the array */
struct list_head pending_const; /* pending complex operations */
/* that do not alter semvals */
struct list_head list_id; /* undo requests on this array */
int sem_nsems; /* no. of semaphores in array */
int complex_count; /* pending complex operations */
unsigned int use_global_lock;/* >0: global lock required */
};
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC
struct sysv_sem {
struct sem_undo_list *undo_list;
};
extern int copy_semundo(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk);
extern void exit_sem(struct task_struct *tsk);
#else
struct sysv_sem {
/* empty */
};
static inline int copy_semundo(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
{
return 0;
}
static inline void exit_sem(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
return;
}
#endif
#endif /* _LINUX_SEM_H */