x86, spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks

Rather than outright replacing the entire spinlock implementation in
order to paravirtualize it, keep the ticket lock implementation but add
a couple of pvops hooks on the slow patch (long spin on lock, unlocking
a contended lock).

Ticket locks have a number of nice properties, but they also have some
surprising behaviours in virtual environments.  They enforce a strict
FIFO ordering on cpus trying to take a lock; however, if the hypervisor
scheduler does not schedule the cpus in the correct order, the system can
waste a huge amount of time spinning until the next cpu can take the lock.

(See Thomas Friebel's talk "Prevent Guests from Spinning Around"
http://www.xen.org/files/xensummitboston08/LHP.pdf for more details.)

To address this, we add two hooks:
 - __ticket_spin_lock which is called after the cpu has been
   spinning on the lock for a significant number of iterations but has
   failed to take the lock (presumably because the cpu holding the lock
   has been descheduled).  The lock_spinning pvop is expected to block
   the cpu until it has been kicked by the current lock holder.
 - __ticket_spin_unlock, which on releasing a contended lock
   (there are more cpus with tail tickets), it looks to see if the next
   cpu is blocked and wakes it if so.

When compiled with CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS disabled, a set of stub
functions causes all the extra code to go away.

Results:
=======
setup: 32 core machine with 32 vcpu KVM guest (HT off)  with 8GB RAM
base = 3.11-rc
patched = base + pvspinlock V12

+-----------------+----------------+--------+
 dbench (Throughput in MB/sec. Higher is better)
+-----------------+----------------+--------+
|   base (stdev %)|patched(stdev%) | %gain  |
+-----------------+----------------+--------+
| 15035.3   (0.3) |15150.0   (0.6) |   0.8  |
|  1470.0   (2.2) | 1713.7   (1.9) |  16.6  |
|   848.6   (4.3) |  967.8   (4.3) |  14.0  |
|   652.9   (3.5) |  685.3   (3.7) |   5.0  |
+-----------------+----------------+--------+

pvspinlock shows benefits for overcommit ratio > 1 for PLE enabled cases,
and undercommits results are flat

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-2-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Attilio Rao <attilio.rao@citrix.com>
[ Raghavendra: Changed SPIN_THRESHOLD, fixed redefinition of arch_spinlock_t]
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
index cf3caee..d509629 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ struct xen_spinlock {
 	xen_spinners_t spinners;	/* count of waiting cpus */
 };
 
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, lock_kicker_irq) = -1;
+
+#if 0
 static int xen_spin_is_locked(struct arch_spinlock *lock)
 {
 	struct xen_spinlock *xl = (struct xen_spinlock *)lock;
@@ -167,7 +170,6 @@ static int xen_spin_trylock(struct arch_spinlock *lock)
 }
 
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char *, irq_name);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, lock_kicker_irq) = -1;
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct xen_spinlock *, lock_spinners);
 
 /*
@@ -354,6 +356,7 @@ static void xen_spin_unlock(struct arch_spinlock *lock)
 	if (unlikely(xl->spinners))
 		xen_spin_unlock_slow(xl);
 }
+#endif
 
 static irqreturn_t dummy_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
 {
@@ -418,13 +421,14 @@ void __init xen_init_spinlocks(void)
 		return;
 
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct xen_spinlock) > sizeof(arch_spinlock_t));
-
+#if 0
 	pv_lock_ops.spin_is_locked = xen_spin_is_locked;
 	pv_lock_ops.spin_is_contended = xen_spin_is_contended;
 	pv_lock_ops.spin_lock = xen_spin_lock;
 	pv_lock_ops.spin_lock_flags = xen_spin_lock_flags;
 	pv_lock_ops.spin_trylock = xen_spin_trylock;
 	pv_lock_ops.spin_unlock = xen_spin_unlock;
+#endif
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_XEN_DEBUG_FS