futex: Add support for process private hashing
From: | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | |
To: | LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> | |
Subject: | [patch V2 0/7] futex: Add support for process private hashing | |
Date: | Thu, 05 May 2016 20:44:02 -0000 | |
Message-ID: | <20160505204230.932454245@linutronix.de> | |
Cc: | Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>, Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> | |
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The standard futex mechanism in the Linux kernel uses a global hash to store transient state. Collisions on that hash can lead to performance degradation and on real-time enabled kernels to unbound priority inversions. This new attempt to solve the issue does not require user space changes and operates transparently. On the first futex operation of a process the kernel allocates a hash private to the process. All process private futexes are hashed in this hash. Process shared futexes still use the global hash. For RT applications and pathological use cases a new futex op is provided which allows the application to preallocate and thereby size the process private hash. The last two patches add support to the perf futex-hash benchmark so test can be run on nodes and the preallocation sizing can be tested. The last patch contains a first update for the futex man page. The difference vs. V1 of this series is that it uses hash_long() now that the hash_64 implementation has been fixed in mainline. The performance numbers are more or less the same as with V1 [1]. Thanks, tglx [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160428161742.363543816@linutro... ---- Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 17 +++ b/include/linux/futex_types.h | 12 ++ include/linux/futex.h | 39 +++++-- include/linux/mm_types.h | 4 include/uapi/linux/futex.h | 1 init/Kconfig | 4 kernel/fork.c | 3 kernel/futex.c | 215 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- kernel/sysctl.c | 21 +++ tools/perf/bench/Build | 4 tools/perf/bench/futex-hash.c | 101 ++++++++++++++++-- tools/perf/bench/futex.h | 5 12 files changed, 403 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)