locking/pvqspinlock: Enable slowpath locking count tracking
authorWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Thu, 10 Dec 2015 20:17:45 +0000 (15:17 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 09:02:42 +0000 (10:02 +0100)
This patch enables the tracking of the number of slowpath locking
operations performed. This can be used to compare against the number
of lock stealing operations to see what percentage of locks are stolen
versus acquired via the regular slowpath.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449778666-13593-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h

index 78f04a2..21ede57 100644 (file)
@@ -400,6 +400,11 @@ pv_wait_head_or_lock(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node)
        if (READ_ONCE(pn->state) == vcpu_hashed)
                lp = (struct qspinlock **)1;
 
+       /*
+        * Tracking # of slowpath locking operations
+        */
+       qstat_inc(qstat_pv_lock_slowpath, true);
+
        for (;; waitcnt++) {
                /*
                 * Set correct vCPU state to be used by queue node wait-early
index 869988d..eb2a2c9 100644 (file)
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
  *   pv_kick_wake      - # of vCPU kicks used for computing pv_latency_wake
  *   pv_latency_kick   - average latency (ns) of vCPU kick operation
  *   pv_latency_wake   - average latency (ns) from vCPU kick to wakeup
+ *   pv_lock_slowpath  - # of locking operations via the slowpath
  *   pv_lock_stealing  - # of lock stealing operations
  *   pv_spurious_wakeup        - # of spurious wakeups
  *   pv_wait_again     - # of vCPU wait's that happened after a vCPU kick
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ enum qlock_stats {
        qstat_pv_kick_wake,
        qstat_pv_latency_kick,
        qstat_pv_latency_wake,
+       qstat_pv_lock_slowpath,
        qstat_pv_lock_stealing,
        qstat_pv_spurious_wakeup,
        qstat_pv_wait_again,
@@ -70,6 +72,7 @@ static const char * const qstat_names[qstat_num + 1] = {
        [qstat_pv_spurious_wakeup] = "pv_spurious_wakeup",
        [qstat_pv_latency_kick]    = "pv_latency_kick",
        [qstat_pv_latency_wake]    = "pv_latency_wake",
+       [qstat_pv_lock_slowpath]   = "pv_lock_slowpath",
        [qstat_pv_lock_stealing]   = "pv_lock_stealing",
        [qstat_pv_wait_again]      = "pv_wait_again",
        [qstat_pv_wait_early]      = "pv_wait_early",