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| author | Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> | 2025-07-16 14:29:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> | 2025-11-06 11:30:54 +0000 |
| commit | 4cb5ac2626b5704ed712ac1d46b9d89fdfc12c5d (patch) | |
| tree | 380d4b2b28a61b57971999698e9956e409ec2632 /lib/mpi/mpi-scan.c | |
| parent | Linux 6.18-rc4 (diff) | |
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futex: Optimize per-cpu reference counting
Shrikanth noted that the per-cpu reference counter was still some 10%
slower than the old immutable option (which removes the reference
counting entirely).
Further optimize the per-cpu reference counter by:
- switching from RCU to preempt;
- using __this_cpu_*() since we now have preempt disabled;
- switching from smp_load_acquire() to READ_ONCE().
This is all safe because disabling preemption inhibits the RCU grace
period exactly like rcu_read_lock().
Having preemption disabled allows using __this_cpu_*() provided the
only access to the variable is in task context -- which is the case
here.
Furthermore, since we know changing fph->state to FR_ATOMIC demands a
full RCU grace period we can rely on the implied smp_mb() from that to
replace the acquire barrier().
This is very similar to the percpu_down_read_internal() fast-path.
The reason this is significant for PowerPC is that it uses the generic
this_cpu_*() implementation which relies on local_irq_disable() (the
x86 implementation relies on it being a single memop instruction to be
IRQ-safe). Switching to preempt_disable() and __this_cpu*() avoids
this IRQ state swizzling. Also, PowerPC needs LWSYNC for the ACQUIRE
barrier, not having to use explicit barriers safes a bunch.
Combined this reduces the performance gap by half, down to some 5%.
Fixes: 760e6f7befba ("futex: Remove support for IMMUTABLE")
Reported-by: Shrikanth Hegde <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
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