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Having all CPUs poll the lock word for the owner CPU that should be yielded to defeats most of the purpose of using MCS queueing for scalability. Yet it may be desirable for queued waiters to yield to a preempted owner. With this change, queue waiters never sample the owner CPU directly from the lock word. The queue head (which is spinning on the lock) propagates the owner CPU back to the next waiter if it finds the owner has been preempted. That waiter then propagates the owner CPU back to the next waiter, and so on. s390 addresses this problem differenty, by having queued waiters sample the lock word to find the owner at a low frequency. That has the advantage of being simpler, the advantage of propagation is that the lock word never has to be accesed by queued waiters, and the transfer of cache lines to transmit the owner data is only required when lock holder vCPU preemption occurs. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221126095932.1234527-11-npiggin@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.