sched: Implement lockless wake-queues

This is useful for locking primitives that can effect multiple
wakeups per operation and want to avoid lock internal lock contention
by delaying the wakeups until we've released the lock internal locks.

Alternatively it can be used to avoid issuing multiple wakeups, and
thus save a few cycles, in packet processing. Queue all target tasks
and wakeup once you've processed all packets. That way you avoid
waking the target task multiple times if there were multiple packets
for the same task.

Properties of a wake_q are:
- Lockless, as queue head must reside on the stack.
- Being a queue, maintains wakeup order passed by the callers. This can
  be important for otherwise, in scenarios where highly contended locks
  could affect any reliance on lock fairness.
- A queued task cannot be added again until it is woken up.

This patch adds the needed infrastructure into the scheduler code
and uses the new wake_list to delay the futex wakeups until
after we've released the hash bucket locks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
[tweaks, adjustments, comments, etc.]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430494072-30283-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 22b53c863ef3..355f9538ca33 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -541,6 +541,52 @@ static bool set_nr_if_polling(struct task_struct *p)
 #endif
 #endif
 
+void wake_q_add(struct wake_q_head *head, struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	struct wake_q_node *node = &task->wake_q;
+
+	/*
+	 * Atomically grab the task, if ->wake_q is !nil already it means
+	 * its already queued (either by us or someone else) and will get the
+	 * wakeup due to that.
+	 *
+	 * This cmpxchg() implies a full barrier, which pairs with the write
+	 * barrier implied by the wakeup in wake_up_list().
+	 */
+	if (cmpxchg(&node->next, NULL, WAKE_Q_TAIL))
+		return;
+
+	get_task_struct(task);
+
+	/*
+	 * The head is context local, there can be no concurrency.
+	 */
+	*head->lastp = node;
+	head->lastp = &node->next;
+}
+
+void wake_up_q(struct wake_q_head *head)
+{
+	struct wake_q_node *node = head->first;
+
+	while (node != WAKE_Q_TAIL) {
+		struct task_struct *task;
+
+		task = container_of(node, struct task_struct, wake_q);
+		BUG_ON(!task);
+		/* task can safely be re-inserted now */
+		node = node->next;
+		task->wake_q.next = NULL;
+
+		/*
+		 * wake_up_process() implies a wmb() to pair with the queueing
+		 * in wake_q_add() so as not to miss wakeups.
+		 */
+		wake_up_process(task);
+		put_task_struct(task);
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * resched_curr - mark rq's current task 'to be rescheduled now'.
  *