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swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile

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swap_lock is heavily contended when I test swap to 3 fast SSD (even
slightly slower than swap to 2 such SSD).  The main contention comes
from swap_info_get().  This patch tries to fix the gap with adding a new
per-partition lock.

Global data like nr_swapfiles, total_swap_pages, least_priority and
swap_list are still protected by swap_lock.

nr_swap_pages is an atomic now, it can be changed without swap_lock.  In
theory, it's possible get_swap_page() finds no swap pages but actually
there are free swap pages.  But sounds not a big problem.

Accessing partition specific data (like scan_swap_map and so on) is only
protected by swap_info_struct.lock.

Changing swap_info_struct.flags need hold swap_lock and
swap_info_struct.lock, because scan_scan_map() will check it.  read the
flags is ok with either the locks hold.

If both swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock must be hold, we always hold
the former first to avoid deadlock.

swap_entry_free() can change swap_list.  To delete that code, we add a
new highest_priority_index.  Whenever get_swap_page() is called, we
check it.  If it's valid, we use it.

It's a pity get_swap_page() still holds swap_lock().  But in practice,
swap_lock() isn't heavily contended in my test with this patch (or I can
say there are other much more heavier bottlenecks like TLB flush).  And
BTW, looks get_swap_page() doesn't really need the lock.  We never free
swap_info[] and we check SWAP_WRITEOK flag.  The only risk without the
lock is we could swapout to some low priority swap, but we can quickly
recover after several rounds of swap, so sounds not a big deal to me.
But I'd prefer to fix this if it's a real problem.

"swap: make each swap partition have one address_space" improved the
swapout speed from 1.7G/s to 2G/s.  This patch further improves the
speed to 2.3G/s, so around 15% improvement.  It's a multi-process test,
so TLB flush isn't the biggest bottleneck before the patches.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix it for nommu]
[hughd@google.com: add missing unlock]
[minchan@kernel.org: get rid of lockdep whinge on sys_swapon]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Shaohua Li 2013-02-22 16:34:38 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 33806f06da
commit ec8acf20af
8 changed files with 145 additions and 60 deletions
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include/linux/swap.h
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@ -202,6 +202,18 @@ struct swap_info_struct {
unsigned long *frontswap_map; /* frontswap in-use, one bit per page */
atomic_t frontswap_pages; /* frontswap pages in-use counter */
#endif
spinlock_t lock; /*
* protect map scan related fields like
* swap_map, lowest_bit, highest_bit,
* inuse_pages, cluster_next,
* cluster_nr, lowest_alloc and
* highest_alloc. other fields are only
* changed at swapon/swapoff, so are
* protected by swap_lock. changing
* flags need hold this lock and
* swap_lock. If both locks need hold,
* hold swap_lock first.
*/
};
struct swap_list_t {
@ -209,9 +221,6 @@ struct swap_list_t {
int next; /* swapfile to be used next */
};
/* Swap 50% full? Release swapcache more aggressively.. */
#define vm_swap_full() (nr_swap_pages*2 < total_swap_pages)
/* linux/mm/page_alloc.c */
extern unsigned long totalram_pages;
extern unsigned long totalreserve_pages;
@ -347,8 +356,20 @@ extern struct page *swapin_readahead(swp_entry_t, gfp_t,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr);
/* linux/mm/swapfile.c */
extern long nr_swap_pages;
extern atomic_long_t nr_swap_pages;
extern long total_swap_pages;
/* Swap 50% full? Release swapcache more aggressively.. */
static inline bool vm_swap_full(void)
{
return atomic_long_read(&nr_swap_pages) * 2 < total_swap_pages;
}
static inline long get_nr_swap_pages(void)
{
return atomic_long_read(&nr_swap_pages);
}
extern void si_swapinfo(struct sysinfo *);
extern swp_entry_t get_swap_page(void);
extern swp_entry_t get_swap_page_of_type(int);
@ -381,9 +402,10 @@ mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t ent, bool swapout)
#else /* CONFIG_SWAP */
#define nr_swap_pages 0L
#define get_nr_swap_pages() 0L
#define total_swap_pages 0L
#define total_swapcache_pages() 0UL
#define vm_swap_full() 0
#define si_swapinfo(val) \
do { (val)->freeswap = (val)->totalswap = 0; } while (0)