When EBO was brought to pl_take_w() by plock commit 60d750d ("plock: use
EBO when waiting for readers to leave in take_w() and stow()"), a mistake
was made: the mask against which the current value of the lock is tested
excludes the first reader like in stow(), but it must not because it was
just obtained via an ldadd() which means that it doesn't count itself.
The problem this causes is that if there is exactly one reader when a
writer grabs the lock, the writer will not wait for it to leave before
starting its operations.
The solution consists in checking for any reader in the IF. However the
mask passed to pl_wait_unlock_*() must still exclude the lowest bit as
it's verified after a subsequent load.
Kudos to Remi Tricot-Le Breton for reporting and bisecting this issue
with a reproducer.
No backport is needed since this was brought in 2.9-dev3 with commit
8178a5211 ("MAJOR: threads/plock: update the embedded library again").
The code is now on par with plock commit ada70fe.
Surprisingly there's no include guard in plock.h though there is one in
atomic-ops.h. Let's add one, or we cannot risk including the file multiple
times.
Compilation is broken due to missing __pl_wait_unlock_long() definition
when building with PLOCK_DISABLE_EBO=1. This has been introduced since
the following commit which activates the inlining version of
pl_wait_unlock_long() :
commit 071d689a51
MINOR: threads: inline the wait function for pthread_rwlock emulation
Add an extra check on PLOCK_DISABLE_EBO before choosing the inline or
default version of pl_wait_unlock_long() to fix this.
Now when PLOCK_LORW_INLINE_WAIT is defined, the pl_wait_unlock_long()
calls in pl_lorw_rdlock() and pl_lorw_wrlock() will be inlined so that
all the CPU time is accounted for in the calling function.
This is plock upstream commit c993f81d581732a6eb8fe3033f21970420d21e5e.
Doing so will allow to expose the time spent in certain highly
contended functions, which can be desirable for more accurate CPU
profiling. For example this could be done in locking functions that
are already not inlined so that they are the ones being reported as
those consuming the CPU instead of just pl_wait_unlock_long().
This is plock upstream commit 7505c2e2c8c4aa0ab8f52a2288e1334ae6412be4.
Commit 9db830b ("plock: support inlining exponential backoff code")
added an option to support inlining of the wait code for longs but
forgot to do it for ints. Let's do it now.
This is plock upstream commit b1f9f0d252fa40577d11cfb2bc0a809d6960a297.
This updates the local copy of the plock library to benefit from finer
memory ordering, EBO on more operations such as when take_w() and stow()
wait for readers to leave and refined EBO, especially on common operation
such as attempts to upgade R to S, and avoids a counter-productive prior
read in rtos() and take_r().
These changes have shown a 5% increase on regular operations on ARM,
a 33% performance increase on ARM on stick-tables and 2% on x86, and
a 14% and 4% improvements on peers updates respectively on ARM and x86.
The availability of relaxed operations will probably be useful for stats
counters which are still extremely expensive to update.
The following plock commits were included in this update:
9db830b plock: support inlining exponential backoff code
008d3c2 plock: make the rtos upgrade faster
2f76dde atomic: clean up the generic xchg()
3c6919b atomic: make sure that the no-return macros do not return a value
97c2bb7 atomic: make the fallback bts use the pointed type for the shift
f4c1880 atomic: also implement the missing pl_btr()
8329b82 atomic: guard all generic definitions to make it easier to provide specific ones
7c5cb62 atomic: use C11 atomics when available
96afaf9 atomic: prefer the C11 definitions in general
f3ec7a6 atomic: implement load/store/atomic barriers
8bdbd1e atomic: add atomic load/stores
0f604c0 atomic: add more _noret operations
3fe35db atomic: remove the (void) cast from the C11 operations
3b08a7c atomic: allow to define the fallback _noret variants
28deb22 atomic: make x86 arithmetic operations the _noret variants
8061fe2 atomic: handle modern compilers that support returning flags
b8b91b7 atomic: add the fetch-and-<op> operations (pl_ld<op>)
59817ca atomic: add memory order variants for most operations
a40774f plock: explicitly make use of the pl_*_noret operations
6f1861b plock: switch to pl_sub_noret_lax() for cancellation
c013980 plock: use pl_ldadd{_lax,_acq,} instead of pl_xadd()
382eea3 plock: use a release ordering when dropping the lock
60d750d plock: use EBO when waiting for readers to leave in take_w() and stow()
fc01c4f plock: improve EBO a little bit
1ef6390 plock: switch to CAS + XADD for pl_take_r()
The new macro PLOCK_DISABLE_EBO may be defined to disable exponential
backoff. This can be useful to more easily spot functions that cause
contention. In this case the CPU will be spent inside the functions
themselves instead of the pl_wait_unlock_{long,int}() functions, making
them easier to spot using "perf top" even if that causes a significant
degradation of the thread scalability.
The plock code hasn't been been updated since 2017 and didn't benefit
from the exponential back-off improvements that were added in 2018.
Simply updating the file shows a massive performance gain on large
thread count (>=48) with dequeuing going from 113k RPS to 300k RPS and
round robin from 229k RPS to 1020k RPS. It was about time to update.
In addition, some recent improvements to the code will be useful with
thread groups.
An interesting improvement concerns EPYC CPUs. This one alone increased
fairness and was sufficient to avoid crashes in process_srv_queue() there,
when hammering two servers with maxconn 200 under 1k connections.
As Ilya reported in issue #998, gcc 11 complains about misleading code
indentation which is in fact caused by dead assignments to zero after
a loop which stops on zero. Let's clean both of these.
[ plock commit 4c53fd3a0b2b1892817cebd0db012a52f4087850 ]
Pieter Baauw reported a build issue affecting haproxy after plock was
included. It happens that expressions of the form :
if ((const) ? (expr1) : (expr2))
do_something()
always produce code for both expr1 and expr2 on Clang when building
without optimization. The resulting asm code is even funny, basically
doing :
mov reg, 1
cmp reg, 1
...
This causes our sizeof() tests to fail to build because we purposely
dereference a fake function that reports the location and nature of the
inconsistency, but this fake function appears in the object code despite
all conditions being there to avoid it.
However the compiler is still smart enough to optimize away code doing
if (const)
do_something()
So we simply repeat the condition before do_something(), and the dummy
function is not referenced anymore unless really required.
[ plock commit b155d5c762fb9a9793911881f80e61faa6b0e889 ]
Local variables "l", "i" and "ret" were renamed "__pl_l", "__pl_i" and
"__pl_r" respectively, to limit the risk of conflicts with existing
variables in application code.
