From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>

Eric Dumazet found a regression with the first version of the spinlock
backoff code, in a workload where multiple spinlocks were contended,
each having a different wait time.

This patch has multiple delay values per cpu, indexed on a hash
of the lock address, to avoid that problem.

Eric Dumazet wrote:

I did some tests with your patches with following configuration :

tc qdisc add dev eth0 root htb r2q 1000 default 3
(to force a contention on qdisc lock, even with a multi queue net
device)

and 24 concurrent "netperf -t UDP_STREAM -H other_machine -- -m 128"

Machine : 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660  @ 2.80GHz
(24 threads), and a fast NIC (10Gbps)

Resulting in a 13 % regression (676 Mbits -> 595 Mbits)

In this workload we have at least two contended spinlocks, with
different delays. (spinlocks are not held for the same duration)

It clearly defeats your assumption of a single per cpu delay being OK :
Some cpus are spinning too long while the lock was released.

We might try to use a hash on lock address, and an array of 16 different
delays so that different spinlocks have a chance of not sharing the same
delay.

With following patch, I get 982 Mbits/s with same bench, so an increase
of 45 % instead of a 13 % regression.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aqu...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <wal...@google.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
index 05f828b..3d30f6e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smp.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
+#include <linux/hash.h>
 
 #include <asm/mtrr.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -134,12 +135,26 @@ static bool smp_no_nmi_ipi = false;
 #define DELAY_FIXED_1 (1<<DELAY_SHIFT)
 #define MIN_SPINLOCK_DELAY (1 * DELAY_FIXED_1)
 #define MAX_SPINLOCK_DELAY (16000 * DELAY_FIXED_1)
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned, spinlock_delay) = { MIN_SPINLOCK_DELAY };
+#define DELAY_HASH_SHIFT 6
+struct delay_entry {
+       u32 hash;
+       u32 delay;
+};
+static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct delay_entry [1 << DELAY_HASH_SHIFT], 
spinlock_delay) = {
+       [0 ... (1 << DELAY_HASH_SHIFT) - 1] = {
+               .hash = 0,
+               .delay = MIN_SPINLOCK_DELAY,
+       },
+};
+
 void ticket_spin_lock_wait(arch_spinlock_t *lock, struct __raw_tickets inc)
 {
        __ticket_t head = inc.head, ticket = inc.tail;
        __ticket_t waiters_ahead;
-       unsigned delay = __this_cpu_read(spinlock_delay);
+       u32 hash = hash32_ptr(lock);
+       u32 slot = hash_32(hash, DELAY_HASH_SHIFT);
+       struct delay_entry *ent = &__get_cpu_var(spinlock_delay[slot]);
+       u32 delay = (ent->hash == hash) ? ent->delay : MIN_SPINLOCK_DELAY;
        unsigned loops = 1;
 
        for (;;) {
@@ -171,11 +186,12 @@ void ticket_spin_lock_wait(arch_spinlock_t *lock, struct 
__raw_tickets inc)
                         * to get it back to a good value quickly.
                         */
                        if (delay >= 2 * DELAY_FIXED_1)
-                               delay -= max(delay/32, DELAY_FIXED_1);
+                               delay -= max_t(u32, delay/32, DELAY_FIXED_1);
                        break;
                }
        }
-       __this_cpu_write(spinlock_delay, delay);
+       ent->hash = hash;
+       ent->delay = delay;
 }
 
 /*
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