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/filemap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/filemap.c') diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 8aa344e8848..f560b41c8f6 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static int sync_page(void *word) * in the ->sync_page() methods make essential use of the * page_mapping(), merely passing the page down to the backing * device's unplug functions when it's non-NULL, which in turn - * ignore it for all cases but swap, where only page->private is + * ignore it for all cases but swap, where only page_private(page) is * of interest. When page_mapping() does go NULL, the entire * call stack gracefully ignores the page and returns. * -- wli -- cgit v1.2.3