* Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>But there are still places where interrupts can be held off for
> >>indefinite periods. I don't see why the scheduler lock is suddenly
> >>important [...]
> >
> >
> >the scheduler lock is obviously important because it's the most central
> >lock in existence.
> >
>
> Now I call that argument much more illogical than any of mine. How can
> such a fine grained, essentially per-cpu lock be "central", let alone
> "most central"? [...]
i meant central in the sense that it's the most frequently taken lock,
in the majority of workloads. Here's the output from the lock validator,
sorted by number of ops per lock:
-> (dcache_lock){--} 124233 {
-> (&rt_hash_locks[i]){-+} 131085 {
-> (&dentry->d_lock){--} 312431 {
-> (cpa_lock){++} 507385 {
-> (__pte_lockptr(new)){--} 660193 {
-> (kernel/synchro-test.c:&mutex){--} 825023 {
-> (&rwsem){--} 930501 {
-> (&rq->lock){++} 2029146 {
the runqueue lock is also central in the sense that it is the most
spread-out lock in the locking dependencies graph. Toplist of locks, by
number of backwards dependencies:
15 -> &cwq->lock
15 -> nl_table_wait
15 -> &zone->lock
17 -> &base->t_base.lock
32 -> modlist_lock
38 -> &cachep->spinlock
46 -> &parent->list_lock
47 -> &rq->lock
(obviously, as no other lock must nest inside the runqueue lock.)
so the quality of code (including asymptotic behavior) that runs under
the runqueue lock is of central importance. I didnt think i'd ever have
to explain this to you, but it is my pleasure to do so ;-) Maybe you
thought of something else under "central"?
Ingo
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