From d065bd810b6deb67d4897a14bfe21f8eb526ba99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michel Lespinasse Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:21:57 -0700 Subject: mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer This change reduces mmap_sem hold times that are caused by waiting for disk transfers when accessing file mapped VMAs. It introduces the VM_FAULT_ALLOW_RETRY flag, which indicates that the call site wants mmap_sem to be released if blocking on a pending disk transfer. In that case, filemap_fault() returns the VM_FAULT_RETRY status bit and do_page_fault() will then re-acquire mmap_sem and retry the page fault. It is expected that the retry will hit the same page which will now be cached, and thus it will complete with a low mmap_sem hold time. Tests: - microbenchmark: thread A mmaps a large file and does random read accesses to the mmaped area - achieves about 55 iterations/s. Thread B does mmap/munmap in a loop at a separate location - achieves 55 iterations/s before, 15000 iterations/s after. - We are seeing related effects in some applications in house, which show significant performance regressions when running without this change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning & crash] Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Nick Piggin Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang Cc: Ying Han Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memory.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/memory.c') diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 92cc54e9413..714c4438d88 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -2627,6 +2627,7 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, *swapcache = NULL; swp_entry_t entry; pte_t pte; + int locked; struct mem_cgroup *ptr = NULL; int exclusive = 0; int ret = 0; @@ -2677,8 +2678,12 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, goto out_release; } - lock_page(page); + locked = lock_page_or_retry(page, mm, flags); delayacct_clear_flag(DELAYACCT_PF_SWAPIN); + if (!locked) { + ret |= VM_FAULT_RETRY; + goto out_release; + } /* * Make sure try_to_free_swap or reuse_swap_page or swapoff did not @@ -2927,7 +2932,8 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, vmf.page = NULL; ret = vma->vm_ops->fault(vma, &vmf); - if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE))) + if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | + VM_FAULT_RETRY))) return ret; if (unlikely(PageHWPoison(vmf.page))) { -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258