ipc,sem: do not hold ipc lock more than necessary
Instead of holding the ipc lock for permissions and security checks, among
others, only acquire it when necessary.
Some numbers....
1) With Rik's semop-multi.c microbenchmark we can see the following
results:
Baseline (3.9-rc1):
cpus 4, threads: 256, semaphores: 128, test duration: 30 secs
total operations: 151452270, ops/sec 5048409
+ 59.40% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
+ 6.14% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sys_semtimedop
+ 3.84% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] avc_has_perm_flags
+ 3.64% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __audit_syscall_exit
+ 2.06% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string
+ 1.86% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ipc_lock
With this patchset:
cpus 4, threads: 256, semaphores: 128, test duration: 30 secs
total operations: 273156400, ops/sec 9105213
+ 18.54% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
+ 11.72% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sys_semtimedop
+ 7.70% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ipc_has_perm.isra.21
+ 6.58% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] avc_has_perm_flags
+ 6.54% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __audit_syscall_exit
+ 4.71% a.out [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ipc_obtain_object_check
2) While on an Oracle swingbench DSS (data mining) workload the
improvements are not as exciting as with Rik's benchmark, we can see
some positive numbers. For an 8 socket machine the following are the
percentages of %sys time incurred in the ipc lock:
Baseline (3.9-rc1):
100 swingbench users: 8,74%
400 swingbench users: 21,86%
800 swingbench users: 84,35%
With this patchset:
100 swingbench users: 8,11%
400 swingbench users: 19,93%
800 swingbench users: 77,69%
[[email protected]: fix two locking bugs]
[[email protected]: prevent releasing RCU read lock twice in semctl_main]
[[email protected]: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chegu Vinod <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Cc: Emmanuel Benisty <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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