From 4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:16:40 -0700 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_io.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/page_io.c') diff --git a/mm/page_io.c b/mm/page_io.c index 330e00d6db00..bb2b0d53889c 100644 --- a/mm/page_io.c +++ b/mm/page_io.c @@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ int swap_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc) unlock_page(page); goto out; } - bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_NOIO, page->private, page, end_swap_bio_write); + bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_NOIO, page_private(page), page, + end_swap_bio_write); if (bio == NULL) { set_page_dirty(page); unlock_page(page); @@ -115,7 +116,8 @@ int swap_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page) BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)); ClearPageUptodate(page); - bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_KERNEL, page->private, page, end_swap_bio_read); + bio = get_swap_bio(GFP_KERNEL, page_private(page), page, + end_swap_bio_read); if (bio == NULL) { unlock_page(page); ret = -ENOMEM; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b