mutex: implement adaptive spinning

Change mutex contention behaviour such that it will sometimes busy wait on
acquisition - moving its behaviour closer to that of spinlocks.

This concept got ported to mainline from the -rt tree, where it was originally
implemented for rtmutexes by Steven Rostedt, based on work by Gregory Haskins.

Testing with Ingo's test-mutex application (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/8/50)
gave a 345% boost for VFS scalability on my testbox:

 # ./test-mutex-shm V 16 10 | grep "^avg ops"
 avg ops/sec:               296604

 # ./test-mutex-shm V 16 10 | grep "^avg ops"
 avg ops/sec:               85870

The key criteria for the busy wait is that the lock owner has to be running on
a (different) cpu. The idea is that as long as the owner is running, there is a
fair chance it'll release the lock soon, and thus we'll be better off spinning
instead of blocking/scheduling.

Since regular mutexes (as opposed to rtmutexes) do not atomically track the
owner, we add the owner in a non-atomic fashion and deal with the races in
the slowpath.

Furthermore, to ease the testing of the performance impact of this new code,
there is means to disable this behaviour runtime (without having to reboot
the system), when scheduler debugging is enabled (CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y),
by issuing the following command:

 # echo NO_OWNER_SPIN > /debug/sched_features

This command re-enables spinning again (this is also the default):

 # echo OWNER_SPIN > /debug/sched_features

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/mutex-debug.h b/kernel/mutex-debug.h
index babfbdfc534b..6b2d735846a5 100644
--- a/kernel/mutex-debug.h
+++ b/kernel/mutex-debug.h
@@ -13,14 +13,6 @@
 /*
  * This must be called with lock->wait_lock held.
  */
-extern void
-debug_mutex_set_owner(struct mutex *lock, struct thread_info *new_owner);
-
-static inline void debug_mutex_clear_owner(struct mutex *lock)
-{
-        lock->owner = NULL;
-}
-
 extern void debug_mutex_lock_common(struct mutex *lock,
                                     struct mutex_waiter *waiter);
 extern void debug_mutex_wake_waiter(struct mutex *lock,
@@ -35,6 +27,16 @@ extern void debug_mutex_unlock(struct mutex *lock);
 extern void debug_mutex_init(struct mutex *lock, const char *name,
                              struct lock_class_key *key);
 
+static inline void mutex_set_owner(struct mutex *lock)
+{
+        lock->owner = current_thread_info();
+}
+
+static inline void mutex_clear_owner(struct mutex *lock)
+{
+        lock->owner = NULL;
+}
+
 #define spin_lock_mutex(lock, flags)                    \
         do {                                            \
                 struct mutex *l = container_of(lock, struct mutex, wait_lock); \