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/rmap.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/rmap.c') diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c index a84bdfe582c..a33e779d1bd 100644 --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ pte_t *page_check_address(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, return NULL; } - ptl = &mm->page_table_lock; + ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd); spin_lock(ptl); if (pte_present(*pte) && page_to_pfn(page) == pte_pfn(*pte)) { *ptlp = ptl; @@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ static int try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma) update_hiwater_rss(mm); if (PageAnon(page)) { - swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page->private }; + swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(page) }; /* * Store the swap location in the pte. * See handle_pte_fault() ... -- cgit v1.2.3