[External] : Re: [PATCH v14 4/6] locking/qspinlock: Introduce starvation avoidance into CNA

[Alex Kogan]

Hi, Andi.

Thanks for your comments!

> On Apr 13, 2021, at 2:03 AM, Andi Kleen <ak at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Alex Kogan <alex.kogan at oracle.com> writes:
>> 
>> +	numa_spinlock_threshold=	[NUMA, PV_OPS]
>> +			Set the time threshold in milliseconds for the
>> +			number of intra-node lock hand-offs before the
>> +			NUMA-aware spinlock is forced to be passed to
>> +			a thread on another NUMA node.	Valid values
>> +			are in the [1..100] range. Smaller values result
>> +			in a more fair, but less performant spinlock,
>> +			and vice versa. The default value is 10.
> 
> ms granularity seems very coarse grained for this. Surely
> at some point of spinning you can afford a ktime_get? But ok.
We are reading time when we are at the head of the (main) queue, but
don’t have the lock yet. Not sure about the latency of ktime_get(), but
anything reasonably fast but not necessarily precise should work.

> Could you turn that into a moduleparm which can be changed at runtime?
> Would be strange to have to reboot just to play with this parameter
Yes, good suggestion, thanks.

> This would also make the code a lot shorter I guess.
So you don’t think we need the command-line parameter, just the module_param?

Regards,
— Alex