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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-12-02 19:56:50 +0000 |
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| committer |   Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-12-11 14:43:00 +0000 |
| commit | 4fc3f1d66b1ef0d7b8dc11f4ff1cc510f78b37d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 90baaa56f6b5244525c7637a14550f830486112a /include/linux/rmap.h | |
| parent | mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem (diff) | |
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mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() appears to be too
careful about locking the anon vma: while it needs protection
against anon vma list modifications, it does not need exclusive
access to the list itself.
Transforming this exclusive lock to a read-locked rwsem removes
a global lock from the hot path of page-migration intense
threaded workloads which can cause pathological performance like
this:
96.43% process 0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] perf_trace_sched_switch
|
--- perf_trace_sched_switch
__schedule
schedule
schedule_preempt_disabled
__mutex_lock_common.isra.6
__mutex_lock_slowpath
mutex_lock
|
|--50.61%-- rmap_walk
| move_to_new_page
| migrate_pages
| migrate_misplaced_page
| __do_numa_page.isra.69
| handle_pte_fault
| handle_mm_fault
| __do_page_fault
| do_page_fault
| page_fault
| __memset_sse2
| |
| --100.00%-- worker_thread
| |
| --100.00%-- start_thread
|
--49.39%-- page_lock_anon_vma
try_to_unmap_anon
try_to_unmap
migrate_pages
migrate_misplaced_page
__do_numa_page.isra.69
handle_pte_fault
handle_mm_fault
__do_page_fault
do_page_fault
page_fault
__memset_sse2
|
--100.00%-- worker_thread
start_thread
With this change applied the profile is now nicely flat
and there's no anon-vma related scheduling/blocking.
Rename anon_vma_[un]lock() => anon_vma_[un]lock_write(),
to make it clearer that it's an exclusive write-lock in
that case - suggested by Rik van Riel.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rmap.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rmap.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h index f3f41d242e25..c20635c527a9 100644 --- a/include/linux/rmap.h +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static inline void vma_unlock_anon_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma) up_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem); } -static inline void anon_vma_lock(struct anon_vma *anon_vma) +static inline void anon_vma_lock_write(struct anon_vma *anon_vma) { down_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem); } @@ -128,6 +128,17 @@ static inline void anon_vma_unlock(struct anon_vma *anon_vma) up_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem); } +static inline void anon_vma_lock_read(struct anon_vma *anon_vma) +{ + down_read(&anon_vma->root->rwsem); +} + +static inline void anon_vma_unlock_read(struct anon_vma *anon_vma) +{ + up_read(&anon_vma->root->rwsem); +} + + /* * anon_vma helper functions. */ @@ -220,8 +231,8 @@ int try_to_munlock(struct page *); /* * Called by memory-failure.c to kill processes. */ -struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma(struct page *page); -void page_unlock_anon_vma(struct anon_vma *anon_vma); +struct anon_vma *page_lock_anon_vma_read(struct page *page); +void page_unlock_anon_vma_read(struct anon_vma *anon_vma); int page_mapped_in_vma(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma); /* |