[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>
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 36c5d9c..2c95848 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@
if (pages) {
unsigned int count, i;
pages->mapping = NULL;
- pages->private = order;
+ set_page_private(pages, order);
count = 1 << order;
for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
SetPageReserved(pages + i);
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@
{
unsigned int order, count, i;
- order = page->private;
+ order = page_private(page);
count = 1 << order;
for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
ClearPageReserved(page + i);
