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author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2005-10-30 01:16:40 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-10-30 04:40:42 (GMT) |
commit | 4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7 (patch) | |
tree | 1f76d33bb1d76221c6424bc5fed080a4f91349a6 /arch/frv/mm | |
parent | b38c6845b695141259019e2b7c0fe6c32a6e720d (diff) | |
download | linux-4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7.tar.xz |
[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 'arch/frv/mm')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/frv/mm/pgalloc.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/frv/mm/pgalloc.c b/arch/frv/mm/pgalloc.c index 4eaec0f..2c67dfe 100644 --- a/arch/frv/mm/pgalloc.c +++ b/arch/frv/mm/pgalloc.c @@ -87,14 +87,14 @@ static inline void pgd_list_add(pgd_t *pgd) if (pgd_list) pgd_list->private = (unsigned long) &page->index; pgd_list = page; - page->private = (unsigned long) &pgd_list; + set_page_private(page, (unsigned long)&pgd_list); } static inline void pgd_list_del(pgd_t *pgd) { struct page *next, **pprev, *page = virt_to_page(pgd); next = (struct page *) page->index; - pprev = (struct page **) page->private; + pprev = (struct page **)page_private(page); *pprev = next; if (next) next->private = (unsigned long) pprev; |