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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 /mm/swapfile.c | |
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 'mm/swapfile.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/swapfile.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 510f003..8970c0b 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ void swap_unplug_io_fn(struct backing_dev_info *unused_bdi, struct page *page) swp_entry_t entry; down_read(&swap_unplug_sem); - entry.val = page->private; + entry.val = page_private(page); if (PageSwapCache(page)) { struct block_device *bdev = swap_info[swp_type(entry)].bdev; struct backing_dev_info *bdi; @@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ void swap_unplug_io_fn(struct backing_dev_info *unused_bdi, struct page *page) /* * If the page is removed from swapcache from under us (with a * racy try_to_unuse/swapoff) we need an additional reference - * count to avoid reading garbage from page->private above. If - * the WARN_ON triggers during a swapoff it maybe the race + * count to avoid reading garbage from page_private(page) above. + * If the WARN_ON triggers during a swapoff it maybe the race * condition and it's harmless. However if it triggers without * swapoff it signals a problem. */ @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ static inline int page_swapcount(struct page *page) struct swap_info_struct *p; swp_entry_t entry; - entry.val = page->private; + entry.val = page_private(page); p = swap_info_get(entry); if (p) { /* Subtract the 1 for the swap cache itself */ @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ int remove_exclusive_swap_page(struct page *page) if (page_count(page) != 2) /* 2: us + cache */ return 0; - entry.val = page->private; + entry.val = page_private(page); p = swap_info_get(entry); if (!p) return 0; @@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ int page_queue_congested(struct page *page) BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); /* It pins the swap_info_struct */ if (PageSwapCache(page)) { - swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page->private }; + swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page) }; struct swap_info_struct *sis; sis = get_swap_info_struct(swp_type(entry)); |