Re: [PATCH next 4/5] locking/osq_lock: Optimise per-cpu data accesses.

[Ingo Molnar]

* Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/29/23 15:57, David Laight wrote:
> > this_cpu_ptr() is rather more expensive than raw_cpu_read() since
> > the latter can use an 'offset from register' (%gs for x86-84).
> > 
> > Add a 'self' field to 'struct optimistic_spin_node' that can be
> > read with raw_cpu_read(), initialise on first call.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   kernel/locking/osq_lock.c | 14 +++++++++-----
> >   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
> > index 9bb3a077ba92..b60b0add0161 100644
> > --- a/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
> > +++ b/kernel/locking/osq_lock.c
> > @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
> >    */
> >   struct optimistic_spin_node {
> > -	struct optimistic_spin_node *next, *prev;
> > +	struct optimistic_spin_node *self, *next, *prev;
> >   	int locked; /* 1 if lock acquired */
> >   	int cpu; /* encoded CPU # + 1 value */
> >   };
> > @@ -93,12 +93,16 @@ osq_wait_next(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock,
> >   bool osq_lock(struct optimistic_spin_queue *lock)
> >   {
> > -	struct optimistic_spin_node *node = this_cpu_ptr(&osq_node);
> > +	struct optimistic_spin_node *node = raw_cpu_read(osq_node.self);
> 
> My gcc 11 compiler produces the following x86-64 code:
> 
> 92        struct optimistic_spin_node *node = this_cpu_ptr(&osq_node);
>    0x0000000000000029 <+25>:    mov    %rcx,%rdx
>    0x000000000000002c <+28>:    add %gs:0x0(%rip),%rdx        # 0x34
> <osq_lock+36>
> 
> Which looks pretty optimized for me. Maybe older compiler may generate more
> complex code. However, I do have some doubt as to the benefit of this patch
> at the expense of making the code a bit more complex.

GCC-11 is plenty of a look-back window in terms of compiler efficiency: 
latest enterprise distros use GCC-11 or newer, while recent desktop 
distros use GCC-13. Anything older won't matter, because no major 
distribution is going to use new kernels with old compilers.

Thanks,

	Ingo