[newlib-cygwin] Spinlock spin with pause instruction

[Corinna Vinschen]

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=b5476c81d2ab27dd4a46064d3fa45556630fd3cf

commit b5476c81d2ab27dd4a46064d3fa45556630fd3cf
Author: Václav Haisman <vhaisman@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 11 11:28:27 2016 +0100

    Spinlock spin with pause instruction
    
    Hi.
    
    I have noticed that Cygwin's spinlock goes into heavy sleeping code
    for each spin. It seems it would be a good idea to actually try to
    spin a bit first. There is this 'pause' instruction which let's the
    CPU make such busy loops be less busy. Here is a patch to do this.
    
    --
    VH

Diff:
---
 winsup/cygwin/thread.cc | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc b/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc
index 06a487a..531d6a8 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/thread.cc
@@ -1916,6 +1916,19 @@ pthread_spinlock::lock ()
 {
   pthread_t self = ::pthread_self ();
   int result = -1;
+  unsigned spins = 0;
+
+  /*
+    We want to spin using 'pause' instruction on multi-core system but we
+    want to avoid this on single-core systems.
+
+    The limit of 1000 spins is semi-arbitrary. Microsoft suggests (in their
+    InitializeCriticalSectionAndSpinCount documentation on MSDN) they are
+    using spin count limit 4000 for their heap manager critical
+    sections. Other source suggest spin count as small as 200 for fast path
+    of mutex locking.
+   */
+  unsigned const FAST_SPINS_LIMIT = wincap.cpu_count () != 1 ? 1000 : 0;
 
   do
     {
@@ -1924,8 +1937,13 @@ pthread_spinlock::lock ()
 	  set_owner (self);
 	  result = 0;
 	}
-      else if (pthread::equal (owner, self))
+      else if (unlikely(pthread::equal (owner, self)))
 	result = EDEADLK;
+      else if (spins < FAST_SPINS_LIMIT)
+        {
+          ++spins;
+          __asm__ volatile ("pause":::);
+        }
       else
 	{
 	  /* Minimal timeout to minimize CPU usage while still spinning. */