Speakers
Alex Kogan
(Oracle Labs)
Dave Dice
(Oracle Labs)
Description
Lock throughput can be increased by handing a lock to a waiter on the
same NUMA node as the lock holder, provided care is taken to avoid
starvation of waiters on other NUMA nodes. This talk will discuss CNA
(compact NUMA-aware lock) as the slow path alternative for the current
implementation of qspinlocks in the kernel.
CNA is a NUMA-aware version of the MCS spin-lock. Spinning threads are
organized in two queues, a main queue for threads running on the same
node as the current lock holder, and a secondary queue for threads
running on other nodes. Experimental results with micro and macrobenchmarks
confirm that the throughput of a system with contended qspinlocks can increase
up to ~3x with CNA, depending on the actual workload.
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Primary authors
Alex Kogan
(Oracle Labs)
Dave Dice
(Oracle Labs)
