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[v3] nptl: Add backoff mechanism to spinlock loop

Message ID 20220504025022.11837-1-wangyang.guo@intel.com
State New
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Series [v3] nptl: Add backoff mechanism to spinlock loop | expand

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Guo, Wangyang May 4, 2022, 2:50 a.m. UTC 
When mutiple threads waiting for lock at the same time, once lock owner
releases the lock, waiters will see lock available and all try to lock,
which may cause an expensive CAS storm.

Binary exponential backoff with random jitter is introduced. As try-lock
attempt increases, there is more likely that a larger number threads
compete for adaptive mutex lock, so increase wait time in exponential.
A random jitter is also added to avoid synchronous try-lock from other
threads.

v2: Remove read-check before try-lock for performance.

v3:
1. Restore read-check since it works well in some platform.
2. Make backoff arch dependent, and enable it for x86_64.
3. Limit max backoff to reduce latency in large critical section.

Result of pthread-mutex-locks bench

Test Platform: Xeon 8280L (2 socket, 112 CPUs in total)
First Row: thread number
First Col: critical section length
Values: backoff vs upstream, time based, low is better

non-critical-length: 1
	1	2	4	8	16	32	64	128	160
0	0.99	0.58	0.52	0.49	0.43	0.44	0.46	0.52	0.54
1	0.98	0.43	0.56	0.50	0.44	0.45	0.50	0.56	0.57
2	0.99	0.41	0.57	0.51	0.45	0.47	0.48	0.60	0.61
4	0.99	0.45	0.59	0.53	0.48	0.49	0.52	0.64	0.65
8	1.00	0.66	0.71	0.63	0.56	0.59	0.66	0.72	0.71
16	0.97	0.78	0.91	0.73	0.67	0.70	0.79	0.80	0.80
32	0.95	1.17	0.98	0.87	0.82	0.86	0.89	0.90	0.90
64	0.96	0.95	1.01	1.01	0.98	1.00	1.03	0.99	0.99
128	0.99	1.01	1.01	1.17	1.08	1.12	1.02	0.97	1.02

non-critical-length: 32
	1	2	4	8	16	32	64	128	160
0	1.03	0.97	0.75	0.65	0.58	0.58	0.56	0.70	0.70
1	0.94	0.95	0.76	0.65	0.58	0.58	0.61	0.71	0.72
2	0.97	0.96	0.77	0.66	0.58	0.59	0.62	0.74	0.74
4	0.99	0.96	0.78	0.66	0.60	0.61	0.66	0.76	0.77
8	0.99	0.99	0.84	0.70	0.64	0.66	0.71	0.80	0.80
16	0.98	0.97	0.95	0.76	0.70	0.73	0.81	0.85	0.84
32	1.04	1.12	1.04	0.89	0.82	0.86	0.93	0.91	0.91
64	0.99	1.15	1.07	1.00	0.99	1.01	1.05	0.99	0.99
128	1.00	1.21	1.20	1.22	1.25	1.31	1.12	1.10	0.99

non-critical-length: 128
	1	2	4	8	16	32	64	128	160
0	1.02	1.00	0.99	0.67	0.61	0.61	0.61	0.74	0.73
1	0.95	0.99	1.00	0.68	0.61	0.60	0.60	0.74	0.74
2	1.00	1.04	1.00	0.68	0.59	0.61	0.65	0.76	0.76
4	1.00	0.96	0.98	0.70	0.63	0.63	0.67	0.78	0.77
8	1.01	1.02	0.89	0.73	0.65	0.67	0.71	0.81	0.80
16	0.99	0.96	0.96	0.79	0.71	0.73	0.80	0.84	0.84
32	0.99	0.95	1.05	0.89	0.84	0.85	0.94	0.92	0.91
64	1.00	0.99	1.16	1.04	1.00	1.02	1.06	0.99	0.99
128	1.00	1.06	0.98	1.14	1.39	1.26	1.08	1.02	0.98

Signed-off-by: Wangyang Guo <wangyang.guo@intel.com>
---
 nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c                   | 16 +++++++--
 sysdeps/nptl/pthreadP.h                     |  1 +
 sysdeps/nptl/pthread_mutex_backoff.h        | 35 ++++++++++++++++++
 sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/pthread_mutex_backoff.h | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 sysdeps/nptl/pthread_mutex_backoff.h
 create mode 100644 sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/pthread_mutex_backoff.h
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diff --git a/nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c b/nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c
index d2e652d151..6e767a8724 100644
--- a/nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c
+++ b/nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c
@@ -138,14 +138,26 @@  PTHREAD_MUTEX_LOCK (pthread_mutex_t *mutex)
 	  int cnt = 0;
 	  int max_cnt = MIN (max_adaptive_count (),
 			     mutex->__data.__spins * 2 + 10);
+	  int spin_count, exp_backoff = 1;
+	  unsigned int jitter = get_jitter ();
 	  do
 	    {
-	      if (cnt++ >= max_cnt)
+	      /* In each loop, spin count is exponential backoff plus
+		 random jitter, random range is [0, exp_backoff-1].  */
+	      spin_count = exp_backoff + (jitter & (exp_backoff - 1));
+	      cnt += spin_count;
+	      if (cnt >= max_cnt)
 		{
+		  /* If cnt exceeds max spin count, just go to wait
+		     queue.  */
 		  LLL_MUTEX_LOCK (mutex);
 		  break;
 		}
-	      atomic_spin_nop ();
+	      do
+		atomic_spin_nop ();
+	      while (--spin_count > 0);
+	      /* Prepare for next loop.  */
+	      exp_backoff = get_next_backoff (exp_backoff);
 	    }
 	  while (LLL_MUTEX_READ_LOCK (mutex) != 0
 		 || LLL_MUTEX_TRYLOCK (mutex) != 0);
diff --git a/sysdeps/nptl/pthreadP.h b/sysdeps/nptl/pthreadP.h
index 601db4ff2b..39af275c25 100644
--- a/sysdeps/nptl/pthreadP.h
+++ b/sysdeps/nptl/pthreadP.h
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ 
 #include <kernel-features.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <internal-signals.h>
+#include <pthread_mutex_backoff.h>
 #include "pthread_mutex_conf.h"
 
 
diff --git a/sysdeps/nptl/pthread_mutex_backoff.h b/sysdeps/nptl/pthread_mutex_backoff.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2ccdcaf1e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysdeps/nptl/pthread_mutex_backoff.h
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ 
+/* Pthread mutex backoff configuration.
+   Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+   <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+#ifndef _PTHREAD_MUTEX_BACKOFF_H
+#define _PTHREAD_MUTEX_BACKOFF_H 1
+
+static inline unsigned int
+get_jitter ()
+{
+  /* Arch dependent random jitter, return 0 disables random.  */
+  return 0;
+}
+
+static inline int
+get_next_backoff (int backoff)
+{
+  /* Next backoff, return 1 disables mutex backoff.  */
+  return 1;
+}
+
+#endif
diff --git a/sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/pthread_mutex_backoff.h b/sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/pthread_mutex_backoff.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ec74c3d9db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/pthread_mutex_backoff.h
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ 
+/* Pthread mutex backoff configuration.
+   Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+   <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+#ifndef _PTHREAD_MUTEX_BACKOFF_H
+#define _PTHREAD_MUTEX_BACKOFF_H 1
+
+#include <fast-jitter.h>
+
+static inline unsigned int
+get_jitter (void)
+{
+  return get_fast_jitter ();
+}
+
+#define MAX_BACKOFF 16
+
+static inline int
+get_next_backoff (int backoff)
+{
+  /* Binary expontial backoff. Limiting max backoff
+     can reduce latency in large critical section.  */
+  return (backoff < MAX_BACKOFF) ? backoff << 1 : backoff;
+}
+
+#endif