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SubjectRe: [RFC] NUMA futex hashing
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On Tuesday 08 August 2006 11:57, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> writes:
> > Current futex hash scheme is not the best for NUMA. The futex hash
> > table is an array of struct futex_hash_bucket, which is just a spinlock
> > and a list_head -- this means multiple spinlocks on the same cacheline
> > and on NUMA machines, on the same internode cacheline. If futexes of two
> > unrelated threads running on two different nodes happen to hash onto
> > adjacent hash buckets, or buckets on the same internode cacheline, then
> > we have the internode cacheline bouncing between nodes.
>
> When I did some testing with a (arguably far too lock intensive) benchmark
> on a bigger box I got most bouncing cycles not in the futex locks itself,
> but in the down_read on the mm semaphore.

This is true, even with a normal application (not a biased benchmark) and
using oprofile. mmap_sem is the killer.

We may have special case for PRIVATE futexes (they dont need to be chained in
a global table, but a process private table)

POSIX thread api already can let the application tell glibc/kernel a
mutex/futex ahe a process scope.

For this private futexes, I think we would not need to down_read(mmap_sem) at
all. (only a/some lock/s protecting the process private table)

Eric

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