60f3e00d25
Assign 'struct kern_ipc_perm' its own cacheline to avoid false sharing
with sysv ipc calls.
While the structure itself is rather read-mostly throughout the lifespan
of ipc, the spinlock causes most of the invalidations. One example is
commit 31a7c4746e ("ipc/sem.c: cacheline align the ipc spinlock for
semaphores"). Therefore, extend this to all ipc.
The effect of cacheline alignment on sems can be seen in sembench, which
deals mostly with semtimedop wait/wakes is seen to improve raw
throughput (worker loops) between 8 to 12% on a 24-core x86 with over 4
threads.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486673582-6979-4-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
53 lines
1.3 KiB
C
53 lines
1.3 KiB
C
#ifndef _LINUX_SEM_H
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#define _LINUX_SEM_H
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#include <linux/atomic.h>
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#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
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#include <linux/cache.h>
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#include <uapi/linux/sem.h>
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struct task_struct;
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/* One sem_array data structure for each set of semaphores in the system. */
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struct sem_array {
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struct kern_ipc_perm sem_perm; /* permissions .. see ipc.h */
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time_t sem_ctime; /* last change time */
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struct sem *sem_base; /* ptr to first semaphore in array */
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struct list_head pending_alter; /* pending operations */
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/* that alter the array */
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struct list_head pending_const; /* pending complex operations */
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/* that do not alter semvals */
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struct list_head list_id; /* undo requests on this array */
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int sem_nsems; /* no. of semaphores in array */
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int complex_count; /* pending complex operations */
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unsigned int use_global_lock;/* >0: global lock required */
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};
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#ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC
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struct sysv_sem {
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struct sem_undo_list *undo_list;
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};
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extern int copy_semundo(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk);
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extern void exit_sem(struct task_struct *tsk);
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#else
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struct sysv_sem {
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/* empty */
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};
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static inline int copy_semundo(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
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{
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return 0;
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}
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static inline void exit_sem(struct task_struct *tsk)
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{
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return;
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}
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#endif
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#endif /* _LINUX_SEM_H */
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