From: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: Use atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed() in tryinc_node_nr_active()
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 15:19:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250709131923.93776-1-ubizjak@gmail.com> (raw)
Use try_cmpxchg() family of locking primitives instead of
cmpxchg(*ptr, old, new) == old.
The x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in the ZF flag, so this
change saves a compare after CMPXCHG (and related move instruction
in front of CMPXCHG).
Also, try_cmpxchg() implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when
CMPXCHG fails. There is no need to re-read the value in the loop.
The generated assembly improves from:
3f7: 44 8b 0a mov (%rdx),%r9d
3fa: eb 12 jmp 40e <...>
3fc: 8d 79 01 lea 0x1(%rcx),%edi
3ff: 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax
401: f0 0f b1 7a 04 lock cmpxchg %edi,0x4(%rdx)
406: 39 c1 cmp %eax,%ecx
408: 0f 84 83 00 00 00 je 491 <...>
40e: 8b 4a 04 mov 0x4(%rdx),%ecx
411: 41 39 c9 cmp %ecx,%r9d
414: 7f e6 jg 3fc <...>
to:
256b: 45 8b 08 mov (%r8),%r9d
256e: 41 8b 40 04 mov 0x4(%r8),%eax
2572: 41 39 c1 cmp %eax,%r9d
2575: 7e 10 jle 2587 <...>
2577: 8d 78 01 lea 0x1(%rax),%edi
257a: f0 41 0f b1 78 04 lock cmpxchg %edi,0x4(%r8)
2580: 75 f0 jne 2572 <...>
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
---
kernel/workqueue.c | 13 +++++--------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 9f9148075828..f0bd688bb88b 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1686,17 +1686,14 @@ static void __pwq_activate_work(struct pool_workqueue *pwq,
static bool tryinc_node_nr_active(struct wq_node_nr_active *nna)
{
int max = READ_ONCE(nna->max);
+ int old = atomic_read(&nna->nr);
- while (true) {
- int old, tmp;
-
- old = atomic_read(&nna->nr);
+ do {
if (old >= max)
return false;
- tmp = atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(&nna->nr, old, old + 1);
- if (tmp == old)
- return true;
- }
+ } while (!atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed(&nna->nr, &old, old + 1));
+
+ return true;
}
/**
--
2.50.0
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