Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/7] ipc,sem: fine grained locking for semtimedop | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:14:51 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 15:55 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > Introduce finer grained locking for semtimedop, to handle the > common case of a program wanting to manipulate one semaphore > from an array with multiple semaphores. > > If the call is a semop manipulating just one semaphore in > an array with multiple semaphores, only take the lock for > that semaphore itself. > > If the call needs to manipulate multiple semaphores, or > another caller is in a transaction that manipulates multiple > semaphores, the sem_array lock is taken, as well as all the > locks for the individual semaphores. > > On a 24 CPU system, performance numbers with the semop-multi > test with N threads and N semaphores, look like this: > > vanilla Davidlohr's Davidlohr's + Davidlohr's + > threads patches rwlock patches v3 patches > 10 610652 726325 1783589 2142206 > 20 341570 365699 1520453 1977878 > 30 288102 307037 1498167 2037995 > 40 290714 305955 1612665 2256484 > 50 288620 312890 1733453 2650292 > 60 289987 306043 1649360 2388008 > 70 291298 306347 1723167 2717486 > 80 290948 305662 1729545 2763582 > 90 290996 306680 1736021 2757524 > 100 292243 306700 1773700 3059159 > > Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
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