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* [PATCH v4 0/3] Optimize CAS [BZ #28537]
@ 2021-11-10  0:16 H.J. Lu
  2021-11-10  0:16 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] Reduce CAS in low level locks " H.J. Lu
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From: H.J. Lu @ 2021-11-10  0:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: libc-alpha
  Cc: Florian Weimer, Oleh Derevenko, Arjan van de Ven, Andreas Schwab

CAS instruction is expensive.  From the x86 CPU's point of view, getting
a cache line for writing is more expensive than reading.  See Appendix
A.2 Spinlock in:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/xeon-lock-scaling-analysis-paper.pdf

The full compare and swap will grab the cache line exclusive and cause
excessive cache line bouncing.

Optimize CAS in low level locks and pthread_mutex_lock.c:

1. Do an atomic load and skip CAS if compare may fail to reduce cache
line bouncing on contended locks.
2. Replace atomic_compare_and_exchange_bool_acq with
atomic_compare_and_exchange_val_acq to avoid the extra load.
3. Drop __glibc_unlikely in __lll_trylock and lll_cond_trylock since we
don't know if it's actually rare; in the contended case it is clearly not
rare.

This is the first patch set to optimize CAS.  I will investigate the rest
CAS usages in glibc after this patch set has been accepted.

H.J. Lu (3):
  Reduce CAS in low level locks [BZ #28537]
  Reduce CAS in __pthread_mutex_lock_full [BZ #28537]
  Optimize CAS in __pthread_mutex_lock_full [BZ #28537]

 nptl/lowlevellock.c         | 12 ++++-----
 nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c   | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 sysdeps/nptl/lowlevellock.h | 29 +++++++++++++-------
 3 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

-- 
2.33.1


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2021-11-10  0:16 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] Reduce CAS in low level locks " H.J. Lu
2021-11-10  1:56   ` Noah Goldstein
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2021-11-10 14:26 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Optimize CAS " Paul E Murphy
2021-11-10 20:07   ` Paul A. Clarke
2021-11-10 21:33     ` H.J. Lu
2021-11-11  0:30       ` Paul A. Clarke
2021-11-10 23:34     ` H.J. Lu
2021-11-10 15:35 ` Paul A. Clarke
2021-11-10 15:42   ` H.J. Lu
2021-11-10 15:50     ` Paul A. Clarke
2021-11-10 15:52       ` H.J. Lu
2021-11-10 15:52   ` Florian Weimer
2021-11-10 16:03     ` H.J. Lu
2021-11-10 16:04     ` Paul A. Clarke
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