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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 /fs | |
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 'fs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/afs/file.c | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | 7 |
4 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/afs/file.c b/fs/afs/file.c index 0d57698..4975c9c 100644 --- a/fs/afs/file.c +++ b/fs/afs/file.c @@ -291,8 +291,8 @@ static int afs_file_releasepage(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp_flags) cachefs_uncache_page(vnode->cache, page); #endif - pageio = (struct cachefs_page *) page->private; - page->private = 0; + pageio = (struct cachefs_page *) page_private(page); + set_page_private(page, 0); ClearPagePrivate(page); if (pageio) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index b166798..2066e4c 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static void __clear_page_buffers(struct page *page) { ClearPagePrivate(page); - page->private = 0; + set_page_private(page, 0); page_cache_release(page); } diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c index 26091a5..8a53981 100644 --- a/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c +++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ struct meta_anchor { atomic_t io_count; struct metapage *mp[MPS_PER_PAGE]; }; -#define mp_anchor(page) ((struct meta_anchor *)page->private) +#define mp_anchor(page) ((struct meta_anchor *)page_private(page)) static inline struct metapage *page_to_mp(struct page *page, uint offset) { @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static inline int insert_metapage(struct page *page, struct metapage *mp) if (!a) return -ENOMEM; memset(a, 0, sizeof(struct meta_anchor)); - page->private = (unsigned long)a; + set_page_private(page, (unsigned long)a); SetPagePrivate(page); kmap(page); } @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static inline void remove_metapage(struct page *page, struct metapage *mp) a->mp[index] = NULL; if (--a->mp_count == 0) { kfree(a); - page->private = 0; + set_page_private(page, 0); ClearPagePrivate(page); kunmap(page); } @@ -156,13 +156,13 @@ static inline void dec_io(struct page *page, void (*handler) (struct page *)) #else static inline struct metapage *page_to_mp(struct page *page, uint offset) { - return PagePrivate(page) ? (struct metapage *)page->private : NULL; + return PagePrivate(page) ? (struct metapage *)page_private(page) : NULL; } static inline int insert_metapage(struct page *page, struct metapage *mp) { if (mp) { - page->private = (unsigned long)mp; + set_page_private(page, (unsigned long)mp); SetPagePrivate(page); kmap(page); } @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static inline int insert_metapage(struct page *page, struct metapage *mp) static inline void remove_metapage(struct page *page, struct metapage *mp) { - page->private = 0; + set_page_private(page, 0); ClearPagePrivate(page); kunmap(page); } diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c index ba4767c..4cd46ab 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c @@ -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); } /* |