On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:24:16 -0800 Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 13:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > If a process is unmapping 4MB then it's pretty crazy for us to be > > hitting the percpu_counter 32 separate times for that single operation. > > > > Is there some way in which we can batch up the modifications within the > > caller and update the counter less frequently? Perhaps even in a > > single hit? > > I think the problem is the batch size is too small and we overflow > the local counter into the global counter for 4M allocations. That's one way of looking at the issue. The other way (which I point out above) is that we're calling vm_[un]_acct_memory too frequently when mapping/unmapping 4M segments. Exactly which mmap.c callsite is causing this issue? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>