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_alloc.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c') diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 0541288ebf4b..a2995a5d012c 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static void prep_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order) struct page *p = page + i; SetPageCompound(p); - p->private = (unsigned long)page; + set_page_private(p, (unsigned long)page); } } @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static void destroy_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order) if (!PageCompound(p)) bad_page(__FUNCTION__, page); - if (p->private != (unsigned long)page) + if (page_private(p) != (unsigned long)page) bad_page(__FUNCTION__, page); ClearPageCompound(p); } @@ -187,18 +187,18 @@ static void destroy_compound_page(struct page *page, unsigned long order) * So, we don't need atomic page->flags operations here. */ static inline unsigned long page_order(struct page *page) { - return page->private; + return page_private(page); } static inline void set_page_order(struct page *page, int order) { - page->private = order; + set_page_private(page, order); __SetPagePrivate(page); } static inline void rmv_page_order(struct page *page) { __ClearPagePrivate(page); - page->private = 0; + set_page_private(page, 0); } /* @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ __find_combined_index(unsigned long page_idx, unsigned int order) * (a) the buddy is free && * (b) the buddy is on the buddy system && * (c) a page and its buddy have the same order. - * for recording page's order, we use page->private and PG_private. + * for recording page's order, we use page_private(page) and PG_private. * */ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct page *page, int order) @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct page *page, int order) * parts of the VM system. * At each level, we keep a list of pages, which are heads of continuous * free pages of length of (1 << order) and marked with PG_Private.Page's - * order is recorded in page->private field. + * order is recorded in page_private(page) field. * So when we are allocating or freeing one, we can derive the state of the * other. That is, if we allocate a small block, and both were * free, the remainder of the region must be split into blocks. @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ static void prep_new_page(struct page *page, int order) page->flags &= ~(1 << PG_uptodate | 1 << PG_error | 1 << PG_referenced | 1 << PG_arch_1 | 1 << PG_checked | 1 << PG_mappedtodisk); - page->private = 0; + set_page_private(page, 0); set_page_refs(page, order); kernel_map_pages(page, 1 << order, 1); } -- cgit v1.2.2