lockdep: Add improved subclass caching
Current lockdep_map only caches one class with subclass == 0,
and looks up hash table of classes when subclass != 0.
It seems that this has no problem because the case of
subclass != 0 is rare. But locks of struct rq are
acquired with subclass == 1 when task migration is executed.
Task migration is high frequent event, so I modified lockdep
to cache subclasses.
I measured the score of perf bench sched messaging.
This patch has slightly but certain (order of milli seconds
or 10 milli seconds) effect when lots of tasks are running.
I'll show the result in the tail of this description.
NR_LOCKDEP_CACHING_CLASSES specifies how many classes can be
cached in the instances of lockdep_map.
I discussed with Peter Zijlstra in LinuxCon Japan about
this approach and he taught me that caching every subclasses(8)
is cleary waste of memory. So number of cached classes
should be configurable.
=== Score comparison of benchmarks ===
# "min" means best score, and "max" means worst score
for i in `seq 1 10`; do ./perf bench -f simple sched messaging; done
before: min: 0.565000, max: 0.583000, avg: 0.572500
after: min: 0.559000, max: 0.568000, avg: 0.563300
# with more processes
for i in `seq 1 10`; do ./perf bench -f simple sched messaging -g 40; done
before: min: 2.274000, max: 2.298000, avg: 2.286300
after: min: 2.242000, max: 2.270000, avg: 2.259700
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286269311-28336-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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