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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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| mrlock.h | ||
| mutex.h | ||
| sema.h | ||
| spin.h | ||
| sv.h | ||
| time.h | ||
| xfs_aops.c | ||
| xfs_aops.h | ||
| xfs_buf.c | ||
| xfs_buf.h | ||
| xfs_cred.h | ||
| xfs_export.c | ||
| xfs_export.h | ||
| xfs_file.c | ||
| xfs_fs_subr.c | ||
| xfs_fs_subr.h | ||
| xfs_globals.c | ||
| xfs_globals.h | ||
| xfs_ioctl.c | ||
| xfs_ioctl32.c | ||
| xfs_ioctl32.h | ||
| xfs_iops.c | ||
| xfs_iops.h | ||
| xfs_linux.h | ||
| xfs_lrw.c | ||
| xfs_lrw.h | ||
| xfs_stats.c | ||
| xfs_stats.h | ||
| xfs_super.c | ||
| xfs_super.h | ||
| xfs_sysctl.c | ||
| xfs_sysctl.h | ||
| xfs_version.h | ||
| xfs_vfs.c | ||
| xfs_vfs.h | ||
| xfs_vnode.c | ||
| xfs_vnode.h | ||