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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] sched: User Mode Concurency Groups
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:47 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:19:21AM -0800, Peter Oskolkov wrote:
> > ============= worker-to-worker context switches
> >
> > One example: absl::Mutex (https://abseil.io/about/design/mutex) has
> > google-internal extensions that are "fiber aware". More specifically,
> > consider this situation:
> >
> > - worker W1 acqured the mutex and is doing its work
> > - worker W2 calls mutex::lock()
> > mutex::lock(), being aware of workers, understands that W2 is going to sleep;
> > so instead of just doing so, waking the server, and letting
> > the server figure out what to run in place of the sleeping worker,
> > mutex::lock()
> > calls into the userspace scheduler in the context of W2 running, and the
> > userspace scheduler then picks W3 to run and does W2->W3 context switch.
> >
> > The optimization above replaces W2->Server and Server->W3 context switches
> > with a single W2->W3 context switch, which is a material performance gain.
>
> Yes, I've also already reconsidered. Things like pipelines and other
> fixed order scheduling policies will greatly benefit from
> worker-to-worker switching.
>
> But I think all of them are explicit. That is, we can limit the
> ::next_tid usage to sys_umcg_wait() and never look at it for implicit
> blocks.

Yes, of course - when a worker blocks, its server gets notified.

>
> > In addition, when W1 calls mutex::unlock(), the scheduling code determines
> > that W2 is waiting on the mutex, and thus calls W2::wake() from the context of
> > running W1 (you asked earlier why do we need "WAKE_ONLY").
>
> This I'm not at all convinced on. That sounds like it will violate the
> 1:1 thing.

wake_only is a wakeup event, meaning the worker gets added to the wake
queue, not scheduled on a CPU; we don't have to implement it in the
kernel, though - the userspace may keep its own wake queue for workers
like this. So feel free to ignore this operation.

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