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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2021-11-02 18:33:07 -0700
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2021-11-12 10:32:09 -0800
commitd672a98a1af106bd68deb15576710cd61363f7a6 (patch)
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Add LLL_MUTEX_READ_LOCK [BZ #28537]
CAS instruction is expensive.  From the x86 CPU's point of view, getting
a cache line for writing is more expensive than reading.  See Appendix
A.2 Spinlock in:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/xeon-lock-scaling-analysis-paper.pdf

The full compare and swap will grab the cache line exclusive and cause
excessive cache line bouncing.

Add LLL_MUTEX_READ_LOCK to do an atomic load and skip CAS in spinlock
loop if compare may fail to reduce cache line bouncing on contended locks.

Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'nptl')
-rw-r--r--nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c b/nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c
index 59a28cff1a..762059b230 100644
--- a/nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c
+++ b/nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ lll_mutex_lock_optimized (pthread_mutex_t *mutex)
 # define PTHREAD_MUTEX_VERSIONS 1
 #endif
 
+#ifndef LLL_MUTEX_READ_LOCK
+# define LLL_MUTEX_READ_LOCK(mutex) \
+  atomic_load_relaxed (&(mutex)->__data.__lock)
+#endif
+
 static int __pthread_mutex_lock_full (pthread_mutex_t *mutex)
      __attribute_noinline__;
 
@@ -141,6 +146,8 @@ PTHREAD_MUTEX_LOCK (pthread_mutex_t *mutex)
 		  break;
 		}
 	      atomic_spin_nop ();
+	      if (LLL_MUTEX_READ_LOCK (mutex) != 0)
+		continue;
 	    }
 	  while (LLL_MUTEX_TRYLOCK (mutex) != 0);