locking/rtmutex: Add adaptive spinwait mechanism
Going to sleep when locks are contended can be quite inefficient when the contention time is short and the lock owner is running on a different CPU. The MCS mechanism cannot be used because MCS is strictly FIFO ordered while for rtmutex based locks the waiter ordering is priority based. Provide a simple adaptive spinwait mechanism which currently restricts the spinning to the top priority waiter. [ tglx: Provide a contemporary changelog, extended it to all rtmutex based locks and updated it to match the other spin on owner implementations ] Originally-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210815211305.912050691@linutronix.de
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