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[PATCH] mm: split page table lock

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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>
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Hugh Dickins 2005-10-29 18:16:40 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b38c6845b6
commit 4c21e2f244
23 changed files with 138 additions and 79 deletions
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include/linux/buffer_head.h
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@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ BUFFER_FNS(Eopnotsupp, eopnotsupp)
/* If we *know* page->private refers to buffer_heads */
#define page_buffers(page) \
({ \
BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)); \
((struct buffer_head *)(page)->private); \
BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)); \
((struct buffer_head *)page_private(page)); \
})
#define page_has_buffers(page) PagePrivate(page)
@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static inline void attach_page_buffers(struct page *page,
{
page_cache_get(page);
SetPagePrivate(page);
page->private = (unsigned long)head;
set_page_private(page, (unsigned long)head);
}
static inline void get_bh(struct buffer_head *bh)