From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] rtmutex: rt_mutex_slowlock() is mostly called as TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:32:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170119113234.1efeedd1@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
Running my likely/unlikely profiler for 3 weeks on two production
machines, I discovered that the unlikely() test in
__rt_mutex_slowlock() checking if state is TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE is hit
100% of the time, making it a very likely case.
The reason is, on a vanilla kernel, the majority case of calling
rt_mutex() is from the futex code. This code is always called as
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. In the -rt patch, this code is commonly called when
PREEMPT_RT is enabled with TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. But that's not the
likely scenario.
The rt_mutex() code should be optimized for the common vanilla case,
and that is from a futex, with TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE as the state.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index 1ec0f48..8de6288 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ __rt_mutex_slowlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
* TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE checks for signals and
* timeout. Ignored otherwise.
*/
- if (unlikely(state == TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)) {
+ if (likely(state == TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)) {
/* Signal pending? */
if (signal_pending(current))
ret = -EINTR;
next reply other threads:[~2017-01-19 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-19 16:32 Steven Rostedt (VMware) [this message]
2017-01-30 11:53 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/rtmutex: Flip unlikely() branch to likely() in __rt_mutex_slowlock() tip-bot for Steven Rostedt (VMware)
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