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author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -0700 |
commit | 4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7 (patch) | |
tree | 1f76d33bb1d76221c6424bc5fed080a4f91349a6 /mm/page_io.c | |
parent | b38c6845b695141259019e2b7c0fe6c32a6e720d (diff) | |
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[PATCH] mm: split page table lock
Christoph Lameter demonstrated very poor scalability on the SGI 512-way, with
a many-threaded application which concurrently initializes different parts of
a large anonymous area.
This patch corrects that, by using a separate spinlock per page table page, to
guard the page table entries in that page, instead of using the mm's single
page_table_lock. (But even then, page_table_lock is still used to guard page
table allocation, and anon_vma allocation.)
In this implementation, the spinlock is tucked inside the struct page of the
page table page: with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case it overflows - which it would in
the case of 32-bit PA-RISC with spinlock debugging enabled.
Splitting the lock is not quite for free: another cacheline access. Ideally,
I suppose we would use split ptlock only for multi-threaded processes on
multi-cpu machines; but deciding that dynamically would have its own costs.
So for now enable it by config, at some number of cpus - since the Kconfig
language doesn't support inequalities, let preprocessor compare that with
NR_CPUS. But I don't think it's worth being user-configurable: for good
testing of both split and unsplit configs, split now at 4 cpus, and perhaps
change that to 8 later.
There is a benefit even for singly threaded processes: kswapd can be attacking
one part of the mm while another part is busy faulting.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_io.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/page_io.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c index 330e00d..bb2b0d5 100644 --- a/mm/page_io.c +++ b/mm/page_io.c @@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc) unlock_page(page); goto out; } - bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_NOIO, page->private, page, end_swap_bio_write); + bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_NOIO, page_private(page), page, + end_swap_bio_write); if (bio == NULL) { set_page_dirty(page); unlock_page(page); @@ -115,7 +116,8 @@ int swap_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page) BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); ClearPageUptodate(page); - bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_KERNEL, page->private, page, end_swap_bio_read); + bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_KERNEL, page_private(page), page, + end_swap_bio_read); if (bio == NULL) { unlock_page(page); ret = -ENOMEM; |