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[PATCH] mm: split page table lock

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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>
This commit is contained in:
Hugh Dickins
2005-10-29 18:16:40 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b38c6845b6
commit 4c21e2f244
23 changed files with 138 additions and 79 deletions
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@@ -181,8 +181,9 @@ set_page_region(
size_t offset,
size_t length)
{
page->private |= page_region_mask(offset, length);
if (page->private == ~0UL)
set_page_private(page,
page_private(page) | page_region_mask(offset, length));
if (page_private(page) == ~0UL)
SetPageUptodate(page);
}
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ test_page_region(
{
unsigned long mask = page_region_mask(offset, length);
return (mask && (page->private & mask) == mask);
return (mask && (page_private(page) & mask) == mask);
}
/*