From 34e55232e59f7b19050267a05ff1226e5cd122a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:41:40 -0800 Subject: mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path. This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter. RSS value will be counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at events. Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault. Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls. rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows [before] 4.5 cache-miss/faults [after] 4.0 cache-miss/faults Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm.h | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 2124cdb2d1d0..8e580c07d171 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write, /* * per-process(per-mm_struct) statistics. */ -#if USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS +#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING) /* * The mm counters are not protected by its page_table_lock, * so must be incremented atomically. @@ -883,10 +883,7 @@ static inline void set_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member, long value) atomic_long_set(&mm->rss_stat.count[member], value); } -static inline unsigned long get_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member) -{ - return (unsigned long)atomic_long_read(&mm->rss_stat.count[member]); -} +unsigned long get_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member); static inline void add_mm_counter(struct mm_struct *mm, int member, long value) { @@ -974,6 +971,7 @@ static inline void setmax_mm_hiwater_rss(unsigned long *maxrss, *maxrss = hiwater_rss; } +void sync_mm_rss(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm); /* * A callback you can register to apply pressure to ageable caches. -- cgit v1.2.1