Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets (UNIX domain
sockets)
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Sun May 7 23:04:37 UTC 2006
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 05:41:53PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> static int
> kern_sigtimedwait(struct thread *td, sigset_t waitset, ksiginfo_t *ksi,
> struct timespec *timeout)
> {
> ...
> td->td_sigmask = savedmask;
> SIGSETNAND(td->td_sigmask, waitset);
> signotify(td);
> error = msleep(&ps, &p->p_mtx, PPAUSE|PCATCH, "sigwait", hz);
>
> i.e. several threads in the process are all sleeping for 1 tick and
> then doing a thundering herd on the same proc lock when they wake up.
Oops, actually hz=0; it comes via sigwait(2). It's still a thundering
herd situation though.
I also profiled the sleepq_broadcast call to look at thundering herds
from wakeup(), and I found that the umtxq_chain is waking the
following distribution of CPUs at once:
Before patch:
Freq #CPUs
1111 1
366 2
136 3
54 4
17 5
2 6
After patch:
Freq #CPUs
1139 1
332 2
139 3
44 4
12 5
2 6
i.e. apparently not a large difference, but still a large proportion
of cases where multiple CPUs are woken at once on the same chain.
Kris
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