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| author | Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> | 2010-04-23 10:36:22 -0500 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2010-04-23 15:57:23 -0700 |
| commit | 1f9cc3cb6a27521edfe0a21abf97d2bb11c4d237 (patch) | |
| tree | c9af6a71398aed690c1fa813498a0aed8abf2d7b /arch/x86/mm | |
| parent | 4daa2a8093ecd1148270a1fc64e99f072b8c2901 (diff) | |
x86, pat: Update the page flags for memtype atomically instead of using memtype_lock
While testing an application using the xpmem (out of kernel) driver, we
noticed a significant page fault rate reduction of x86_64 with respect
to ia64. For one test running with 32 cpus, one thread per cpu, it
took 01:08 for each of the threads to vm_insert_pfn 2GB worth of pages.
For the same test running on 256 cpus, one thread per cpu, it took 14:48
to vm_insert_pfn 2 GB worth of pages.
The slowdown was tracked to lookup_memtype which acquires the
spinlock memtype_lock. This heavily contended lock was slowing down
vm_insert_pfn().
With the cmpxchg on page->flags method, both the 32 cpu and 256 cpu
cases take approx 00:01.3 seconds to complete.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100423153627.751194346@gulag1.americas.sgi.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@novell.com>
Reviewed-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c index 951011166ef..501fc60e5e4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c @@ -190,8 +190,6 @@ static int pat_pagerange_is_ram(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) * Here we do two pass: * - Find the memtype of all the pages in the range, look for any conflicts * - In case of no conflicts, set the new memtype for pages in the range - * - * Caller must hold memtype_lock for atomicity. */ static int reserve_ram_pages_type(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type, unsigned long *new_type) @@ -297,9 +295,7 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type, is_range_ram = pat_pagerange_is_ram(start, end); if (is_range_ram == 1) { - spin_lock(&memtype_lock); err = reserve_ram_pages_type(start, end, req_type, new_type); - spin_unlock(&memtype_lock); return err; } else if (is_range_ram < 0) { @@ -351,9 +347,7 @@ int free_memtype(u64 start, u64 end) is_range_ram = pat_pagerange_is_ram(start, end); if (is_range_ram == 1) { - spin_lock(&memtype_lock); err = free_ram_pages_type(start, end); - spin_unlock(&memtype_lock); return err; } else if (is_range_ram < 0) { @@ -394,10 +388,8 @@ static unsigned long lookup_memtype(u64 paddr) if (pat_pagerange_is_ram(paddr, paddr + PAGE_SIZE)) { struct page *page; - spin_lock(&memtype_lock); page = pfn_to_page(paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT); rettype = get_page_memtype(page); - spin_unlock(&memtype_lock); /* * -1 from get_page_memtype() implies RAM page is in its * default state and not reserved, and hence of type WB |