Going to sleep when locks are contended can be quite inefficient when the
contention time is short and the lock owner is running on a different CPU.
The MCS mechanism cannot be used because MCS is strictly FIFO ordered while
for rtmutex based locks the waiter ordering is priority based.
Provide a simple adaptive spinwait mechanism which currently restricts the
spinning to the top priority waiter.
[ tglx: Provide a contemporary changelog, extended it to all rtmutex based
locks and updated it to match the other spin on owner implementations ]
Originally-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211305.912050691@linutronix.de
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