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paravirt: introduce a "lock-byte" spinlock implementation

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Implement a version of the old spinlock algorithm, in which everyone
spins waiting for a lock byte.  In order to be compatible with the
ticket-lock's use of a zero initializer, this uses the convention of
'0' for unlocked and '1' for locked.

This algorithm is much better than ticket locks in a virtual
envionment, because it doesn't interact badly with the vcpu scheduler.
If there are multiple vcpus spinning on a lock and the lock is
released, the next vcpu to be scheduled will take the lock, rather
than cycling around until the next ticketed vcpu gets it.

To use this, you must call paravirt_use_bytelocks() very early, before
any spinlocks have been taken.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Xen devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Thomas Friebel <thomas.friebel@amd.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-07-07 12:07:51 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 74d4affde8
commit 8efcbab674
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arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c
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@@ -268,6 +268,15 @@ enum paravirt_lazy_mode paravirt_get_lazy_mode(void)
return __get_cpu_var(paravirt_lazy_mode);
}
void __init paravirt_use_bytelocks(void)
{
pv_lock_ops.spin_is_locked = __byte_spin_is_locked;
pv_lock_ops.spin_is_contended = __byte_spin_is_contended;
pv_lock_ops.spin_lock = __byte_spin_lock;
pv_lock_ops.spin_trylock = __byte_spin_trylock;
pv_lock_ops.spin_unlock = __byte_spin_unlock;
}
struct pv_info pv_info = {
.name = "bare hardware",
.paravirt_enabled = 0,