whether the shared request for already shared-locked lock could be
granted. Both problems result in the exclusive locker starvation.
The concurrent exclusive request is indicated by either
LK_EXCLUSIVE_WAITERS or LK_EXCLUSIVE_SPINNERS flags. The reverse
condition, i.e. no exclusive waiters, must check that both flags are
cleared.
Add a flag LK_NODDLKTREAT for shared lock request to indicate that
current thread guarantees that it does not own the lock in shared
mode. This turns back the exclusive lock starvation avoidance code;
see man page update for detailed description.
Use LK_NODDLKTREAT when doing lookup(9).
Reported and tested by: pho
No objections from: attilio
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
This enables locking consumers to pass their own structures around as const and
be able to assert locks embedded into those structures.
Reviewed by: ed, kib, jhb
Actually, as it did receive few tuning, the support is disabled by
default, but it can opt-in with the option ADAPTIVE_LOCKMGRS.
Due to the nature of lockmgrs, adaptive spinning needs to be
selectively enabled for any interested lockmgr.
The support is bi-directional, or, in other ways, it will work in both
cases if the lock is held in read or write way. In particular, the
read path is passible of further tunning using the sysctls
debug.lockmgr.retries and debug.lockmgr.loops . Ideally, such sysctls
should be axed or compiled out before release.
Addictionally note that adaptive spinning doesn't cope well with
LK_SLEEPFAIL. The reason is that many (and probabilly all) consumers
of LK_SLEEPFAIL are mainly interested in knowing if the interlock was
dropped or not in order to reacquire it and re-test initial conditions.
This directly interacts with adaptive spinning because lockmgr needs
to drop the interlock while spinning in order to avoid a deadlock
(further details in the comments inside the patch).
Final note: finding someone willing to help on tuning this with
relevant workloads would be either very important and appreciated.
Tested by: jeff, pho
Requested by: many
This option just adds complexity and the new implementation no longer
will support it, so axing it now that it is unused is probabilly the
better idea.
FreeBSD version is bumped in order to reflect the KPI breakage introduced
by this patch.
In the ports tree, kris found that only old OSKit code uses it, but as
it is thought to work only on 2.x kernels serie, version bumping will
solve any problem.
event. Locking primitives that support this (mtx, rw, and sx) now each
include their own foo_sleep() routine.
- Rename msleep() to _sleep() and change it's 'struct mtx' object to a
'struct lock_object' pointer. _sleep() uses the recently added
lc_unlock() and lc_lock() function pointers for the lock class of the
specified lock to release the lock while the thread is suspended.
- Add wrappers around _sleep() for mutexes (mtx_sleep()), rw locks
(rw_sleep()), and sx locks (sx_sleep()). msleep() still exists and
is now identical to mtx_sleep(), but it is deprecated.
- Rename SLEEPQ_MSLEEP to SLEEPQ_SLEEP.
- Rewrite much of sleep.9 to not be msleep(9) centric.
- Flesh out the 'RETURN VALUES' section in sleep.9 and add an 'ERRORS'
section.
- Add __nonnull(1) to _sleep() and msleep_spin() so that the compiler will
warn if you try to pass a NULL wait channel. The functions already have
a KASSERT to that effect.
some content and layout changes were made.
lock.9 had existed before but was never added to Makefile, so it was
never installed. That is why the duplicate files were created in the
first place.
Reviewed by: ru, alfred
