On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:14 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:17:37PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This (still incomplete) patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. > > It converts i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes. On the way there it > > also makes mmu_gather preemptible. > > > > The main motivation was making mm_take_all_locks() preemptible, since it > > appears people are nesting hundreds of spinlocks there. > > > > The side-effects are that we can finally make mmu_gather preemptible, something > > which lots of people have wanted to do for a long time. > > What's the straight-line performance impact of all this? And how about > concurrency, I wonder. mutexes of course are double the atomics, and > you've added a refcount which is two more again for those paths using > it. > > Page faults are very important. We unfortunately have some databases > doing a significant amount of mmap/munmap activity too. You think this would affect the mmap/munmap times in any significant way? It seems to me those are relatively heavy ops to begin with. > I'd like to > see microbenchmark numbers for each of those (both anon and file backed > for page faults). OK, I'll dig out that fault test used in the whole mmap_sem/rwsem thread a while back and modify it to also do file backed faults. > kbuild does quite a few pages faults, that would be an easy thing to > test. Not sure what reasonable kinds of cases exercise parallelism. > > > > What kind of performance tests would people have me run on this to satisfy > > their need for numbers? I've done a kernel build on x86_64 and if anything that > > was slightly faster with these patches, but it was well within the noise > > levels so it might be heat noise I'm looking at ;-) > > Is it because you're reducing the number of TLB flushes, or what > (kbuild isn't multi threaded so on x86 TLB flushes should be really > fast anyway). I'll try and get some perf stat runs to get some insight into this. But the numbers were: time make O=defconfig -j48 bzImage (5x, cache hot) without: avg: 39.2018s +- 0.3407 with: avg: 38.9886s +- 0.1814 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html