tree 628ce5c597d32f0848ebb5730b642806d1d9a057
parent 5864a2fd3088db73d47942370d0f7210a807b9bc
author Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> 1476219293 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1476223593 -0700

ipc/msg: implement lockless pipelined wakeups

This patch moves the wakeup_process() invocation so it is not done under
the ipc global lock by making use of a lockless wake_q.  With this change,
the waiter is woken up once the message has been assigned and it does not
need to loop on SMP if the message points to NULL.  In the signal case we
still need to check the pointer under the lock to verify the state.

This change should also avoid the introduction of preempt_disable() in -RT
which avoids a busy-loop which pools for the NULL -> !NULL change if the
waiter has a higher priority compared to the waker.

By making use of wake_qs, the logic of sysv msg queues is greatly
simplified (and very well suited as we can batch lockless wakeups),
particularly around the lockless receive algorithm.

This has been tested with Manred's pmsg-shared tool on a "AMD A10-7800
Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G":

test             |   before   |   after    | diff
-----------------|------------|------------|----------
pmsg-shared 8 60 | 19,347,422 | 30,442,191 | + ~57.34 %
pmsg-shared 4 60 | 21,367,197 | 35,743,458 | + ~67.28 %
pmsg-shared 2 60 | 22,884,224 | 24,278,200 | +  ~6.09 %

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469748819-19484-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>