target-arm: emulate aarch64's LL/SC using cmpxchg helpers
Emulating LL/SC with cmpxchg is not correct, since it can
suffer from the ABA problem. Portable parallel code, however,
is written assuming only cmpxchg--and not LL/SC--is available.
This means that in practice emulating LL/SC with cmpxchg is
a viable alternative.
The appended emulates LL/SC pairs in aarch64 with cmpxchg helpers.
This works in both user and system mode. In usermode, it avoids
pausing all other CPUs to perform the LL/SC pair. The subsequent
performance and scalability improvement is significant, as the
plots below show. They plot the throughput of atomic_add-bench
compiled for ARM and executed on a 64-core x86 machine.
Hi-res plots: http://imgur.com/a/JVc8Y
atomic_add-bench:
1000000 ops/thread, [0,1] range
18 ++---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++
+cmpxchg +-E--+ + + + + + |
16 ++master +-H--+ ++
|| |
14 ++ ++
| | |
12 ++| ++
| | |
10 ++++ ++
8 ++E ++
|+++ |
6 ++ | ++
| | |
4 ++ | ++
| | |
2 +H++E+--- ++
+ | +E++----+E+---+--+E+----++E+------+E+------+E++----+E+---+--+E|
0 ++H-H----H-+-----H----+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Number of threads
atomic_add-bench:
1000000 ops/thread, [0,2] range
18 ++---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++
+cmpxchg +-E--+ + + + + + |
16 ++master +-H--+ ++
| | |
14 ++E ++
| | |
12 ++| ++
|+++ |
10 ++ | ++
8 ++ | ++
| | |
6 ++ | ++
| | |
4 ++ | ++
| +E+--- |
2 +H+ +E+-----+++ +++ +++ ---+E+-----+E+------+++
+++ + +E+---+--+E+----++E+------+E+--- ++++ +++ + +E|
0 ++H-H----H-+-----H----+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Number of threads
atomic_add-bench:
1000000 ops/thread, [0,128] range
70 ++---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++
+cmpxchg +-E--+ + + + + + |
60 ++master +-H--+ +++ ---+E+-----+E+------+E+
| +E+------E-------+E+--- |
| --- +++ |
50 ++ +++--- ++
| -+E+ |
40 ++ +++---- ++
| E- |
| --| |
30 ++ -- +++ ++
| +E+ |
20 ++E+ ++
|E+ |
| |
10 ++ ++
+ + + + + + + |
0 +HH-H----H-+-----H----+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Number of threads
atomic_add-bench:
1000000 ops/thread, [0,1024] range
160 ++---------+---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+---++
+cmpxchg +-E--+ + + + + + |
140 ++master +-H--+ +++ +++
| -+E+-----+E+-------E|
120 ++ +++ ---- +++
| +++ ----E-- |
100 ++ --E--- +++ ++
| +++ ---- +++ |
80 ++ --E-- ++
| ---- +++ |
| -+E+ |
60 ++ ---- +++ ++
| +E+- |
40 ++ -- ++
| +E+ |
20 +EE+ ++
+++ + + + + + + |
0 +HH-H---H--+-----H---+----------+---------+----------+----------+---++
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Number of threads
[rth: Rearrange 128-bit cmpxchg helper. Enforce alignment on LL.]
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Message-Id: <
1467054136-10430-28-git-send-email-cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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