On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 13:25 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Have you done some profiling on this? What I would like to see, if > it's not too much complexity, is to have a small set of pages to > handle common size frees, and then use them up first by default > before attempting to allocate more. > > Also, it would be cool to be able to chain allocations to avoid > TLB flushes even on big frees (overridable by arch of course, in > case they're doing some non-preeemptible work or you wish to break > up lock hold times). But that might be just getting over engineered. > Measuring ITLB_FLUSH on Intel nehalem using: perf stat -a -e r01ae make O=defconfig-build/ -j48 bzImage -linus 5825850 +- 2545 (100%) +patches 5891341 +- 6045 (101%) +below 5783991 +- 4725 ( 99%) (No slab allocations yet) Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 122 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 82 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/tlb.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-generic/tlb.h +++ linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/tlb.h @@ -17,16 +17,6 @@ #include <asm/pgalloc.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> -/* - * For UP we don't need to worry about TLB flush - * and page free order so much.. - */ -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP - #define tlb_fast_mode(tlb) ((tlb)->nr == ~0U) -#else - #define tlb_fast_mode(tlb) 1 -#endif - #ifdef HAVE_ARCH_RCU_TABLE_FREE /* * Semi RCU freeing of the page directories. @@ -70,31 +60,66 @@ extern void tlb_remove_table(struct mmu_ #endif +struct mmu_gather_batch { + struct mmu_gather_batch *next; + unsigned int nr; + unsigned int max; + struct page *pages[0]; +}; + +#define MAX_GATHER_BATCH \ + ((PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(struct mmu_gather_batch)) / sizeof(unsigned long)) + /* struct mmu_gather is an opaque type used by the mm code for passing around * any data needed by arch specific code for tlb_remove_page. */ struct mmu_gather { struct mm_struct *mm; - unsigned int nr; /* set to ~0U means fast mode */ - unsigned int max; /* nr < max */ - unsigned int need_flush;/* Really unmapped some ptes? */ - unsigned int fullmm; /* non-zero means full mm flush */ - struct page **pages; - struct page *local[8]; + unsigned int need_flush : 1, /* Did free PTEs */ + fast_mode : 1; /* No batching */ + unsigned int fullmm; /* Flush full mm */ + + struct mmu_gather_batch *active; + struct mmu_gather_batch local; + struct page *__pages[8]; #ifdef HAVE_ARCH_RCU_TABLE_FREE struct mmu_table_batch *batch; #endif }; -static inline void __tlb_alloc_pages(struct mmu_gather *tlb) +/* + * For UP we don't need to worry about TLB flush + * and page free order so much.. + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP + #define tlb_fast_mode(tlb) (tlb->fast_mode) +#else + #define tlb_fast_mode(tlb) 1 +#endif + +static inline int tlb_next_batch(struct mmu_gather *tlb) { - unsigned long addr = __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, 0); + struct mmu_gather_batch *batch; - if (addr) { - tlb->pages = (void *)addr; - tlb->max = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page *); + batch = tlb->active; + if (batch->next) { + tlb->active = batch->next; + return 1; } + + batch = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, 0); + if (!batch) + return 0; + + batch->next = NULL; + batch->nr = 0; + batch->max = MAX_GATHER_BATCH; + + tlb->active->next = batch; + tlb->active = batch; + + return 1; } /* tlb_gather_mmu @@ -105,17 +130,16 @@ tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, s { tlb->mm = mm; - tlb->max = ARRAY_SIZE(tlb->local); - tlb->pages = tlb->local; - - if (num_online_cpus() > 1) { - tlb->nr = 0; - __tlb_alloc_pages(tlb); - } else /* Use fast mode if only one CPU is online */ - tlb->nr = ~0U; - + tlb->need_flush = 0; + if (num_online_cpus() == 1) + tlb->fast_mode = 1; tlb->fullmm = full_mm_flush; + tlb->local.next = NULL; + tlb->local.nr = 0; + tlb->local.max = ARRAY_SIZE(tlb->__pages); + tlb->active = &tlb->local; + #ifdef HAVE_ARCH_RCU_TABLE_FREE tlb->batch = NULL; #endif @@ -124,6 +148,8 @@ tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, s static inline void tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { + struct mmu_gather_batch *batch; + if (!tlb->need_flush) return; tlb->need_flush = 0; @@ -131,12 +157,14 @@ tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, un #ifdef HAVE_ARCH_RCU_TABLE_FREE tlb_table_flush(tlb); #endif - if (!tlb_fast_mode(tlb)) { - free_pages_and_swap_cache(tlb->pages, tlb->nr); - tlb->nr = 0; - if (tlb->pages == tlb->local) - __tlb_alloc_pages(tlb); + if (tlb_fast_mode(tlb)) + return; + + for (batch = &tlb->local; batch; batch = batch->next) { + free_pages_and_swap_cache(batch->pages, batch->nr); + batch->nr = 0; } + tlb->active = &tlb->local; } /* tlb_finish_mmu @@ -146,13 +174,18 @@ tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, un static inline void tlb_finish_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { + struct mmu_gather_batch *batch, *next; + tlb_flush_mmu(tlb, start, end); /* keep the page table cache within bounds */ check_pgt_cache(); - if (tlb->pages != tlb->local) - free_pages((unsigned long)tlb->pages, 0); + for (batch = tlb->local.next; batch; batch = next) { + next = batch->next; + free_pages((unsigned long)batch, 0); + } + tlb->local.next = NULL; } /* tlb_remove_page @@ -162,14 +195,23 @@ tlb_finish_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, u */ static inline void tlb_remove_page(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *page) { + struct mmu_gather_batch *batch; + tlb->need_flush = 1; + if (tlb_fast_mode(tlb)) { free_page_and_swap_cache(page); return; } - tlb->pages[tlb->nr++] = page; - if (tlb->nr >= tlb->max) - tlb_flush_mmu(tlb, 0, 0); + + batch = tlb->active; + if (batch->nr == batch->max) { + if (!tlb_next_batch(tlb)) + tlb_flush_mmu(tlb, 0, 0); + batch = tlb->active; + } + + batch->pages[batch->nr++] = page; } /** -- 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