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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -0700 |
| commit | 4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f76d33bb1d76221c6424bc5fed080a4f91349a6 /fs/xfs | |
| parent | b38c6845b695141259019e2b7c0fe6c32a6e720d (diff) | |
[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/xfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c index ba4767c04ad..4cd46abe843 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); } /* |