Hugh Dickins 4c21e2f244 [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 <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>		2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
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cache-page.c
dma-alloc.c	[PATCH] mm: init_mm without ptlock	2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
elf-fdpic.c
extable.c
fault.c	It wasn't just x86-64 that had hardcoded VM_FAULT_xxx numbers	2005-08-04 08:33:38 -07:00
highmem.c
init.c
kmap.c
Makefile
mmu-context.c
pgalloc.c	[PATCH] mm: split page table lock	2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
tlb-flush.S
tlb-miss.S
unaligned.c