The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/mmap: move vma operations to mm_struct out of the critical section of file mapping lock has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-mmap-move-vma-operations-to-mm_struct-out-of-the-critical-section-of-file-mapping-lock.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yu Ma <yu.ma@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/mmap: move vma operations to mm_struct out of the critical section of file mapping lock Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:57:39 -0400 UnixBench/Execl represents a class of workload where bash scripts are spawned frequently to do some short jobs. When running multiple parallel tasks, hot osq_lock is observed from do_mmap and exit_mmap. Both of them come from load_elf_binary through the call chain "execl->do_execveat_common->bprm_execve->load_elf_binary". In do_mmap,it will call mmap_region to create vma node, initialize it and insert it to vma maintain structure in mm_struct and i_mmap tree of the mapping file, then increase map_count to record the number of vma nodes used. The hot osq_lock is to protect operations on file's i_mmap tree. For the mm_struct member change like vma insertion and map_count update, they do not affect i_mmap tree. Move those operations out of the lock's critical section, to reduce hold time on the lock. With this change, on Intel Sapphire Rapids 112C/224T platform, based on v6.0-rc6, the 160 parallel score improves by 12%. The patch has no obvious performance gain on v6.5-rc1 due to regression of this benchmark from this commit f1a7941243c102a44e8847e3b94ff4ff3ec56f25 (mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter). Related discussion and conclusion can be referred at the mail thread initiated by 0day as below: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/a4aa2e13-7187-600b-c628-7e8fb108def0@xxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230712145739.604215-1-yu.ma@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yu Ma <yu.ma@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A . Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhu, Lipeng <lipeng.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mmap.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/mm/mmap.c~mm-mmap-move-vma-operations-to-mm_struct-out-of-the-critical-section-of-file-mapping-lock +++ a/mm/mmap.c @@ -412,14 +412,11 @@ static int vma_link(struct mm_struct *mm if (vma_iter_prealloc(&vmi)) return -ENOMEM; + vma_iter_store(&vmi, vma); + if (vma->vm_file) { mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping; i_mmap_lock_write(mapping); - } - - vma_iter_store(&vmi, vma); - - if (mapping) { __vma_link_file(vma, mapping); i_mmap_unlock_write(mapping); } @@ -2812,12 +2809,10 @@ cannot_expand: /* Lock the VMA since it is modified after insertion into VMA tree */ vma_start_write(vma); - if (vma->vm_file) - i_mmap_lock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); - vma_iter_store(&vmi, vma); mm->map_count++; if (vma->vm_file) { + i_mmap_lock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) mapping_allow_writable(vma->vm_file->f_mapping); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yu.ma@xxxxxxxxx are