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authorJohn Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-21 20:47:11 +0000
committerJohn Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-21 20:47:11 +0000
commit2498cf8c42924bdfa85da29e960a9467e32f872d (patch)
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Add code to make default mutexes adaptive if the ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES kernel
option is used (not on by default). - In the case of trying to lock a mutex, if the MTX_CONTESTED flag is set, then we can safely read the thread pointer from the mtx_lock member while holding sched_lock. We then examine the thread to see if it is currently executing on another CPU. If it is, then we keep looping instead of blocking. - In the case of trying to unlock a mutex, it is now possible for a mutex to have MTX_CONTESTED set in mtx_lock but to not have any threads actually blocked on it, so we need to handle that case. In that case, we just release the lock as if MTX_CONTESTED was not set and return. - We do not adaptively spin on Giant as Giant is held for long times and it slows SMP systems down to a crawl (it was taking several minutes, like 5-10 or so for my test alpha and sparc64 SMP boxes to boot up when they adaptively spinned on Giant). - We only compile in the code to do this for SMP kernels, it doesn't make sense for UP kernels. Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=97081
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@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ ADW_ALLOW_MEMIO opt_adw.h # Allow PCI devices to use memory
# Miscellaneous options.
GEOM opt_geom.h
+ADAPTIVE_MUTEXES
COMPAT_43 opt_compat.h
COMPAT_SUNOS opt_compat.h
COMPILING_LINT opt_global.h