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Add LLL_MUTEX_READ_LOCK [BZ #28537]
authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Wed, 3 Nov 2021 01:33:07 +0000 (18:33 -0700)
committerSunil K Pandey <skpgkp2@gmail.com>
Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:47:29 +0000 (13:47 -0700)
commit8844d9b22dfa00675ef4f4e14ffe107a173bc068
tree04d12f6aa68ff843ce2ba292aba89a45c8331d64
parent0ec276739a22c0305263941b5213e8c368269ec0
Add LLL_MUTEX_READ_LOCK [BZ #28537]

CAS instruction is expensive.  From the x86 CPU's point of view, getting
a cache line for writing is more expensive than reading.  See Appendix
A.2 Spinlock in:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/xeon-lock-scaling-analysis-paper.pdf

The full compare and swap will grab the cache line exclusive and cause
excessive cache line bouncing.

Add LLL_MUTEX_READ_LOCK to do an atomic load and skip CAS in spinlock
loop if compare may fail to reduce cache line bouncing on contended locks.

Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
(cherry picked from commit d672a98a1af106bd68deb15576710cd61363f7a6)
nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c