From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,mjguzik@gmail.com,hch@infradead.org,bhe@redhat.com,ahuang12@lenovo.com,urezki@gmail.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] vmalloc-align-nr_vmalloc_pages-and-vmap_lazy_nr.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 17:52:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250512005228.75CE6C4CEE4@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: vmalloc: align nr_vmalloc_pages and vmap_lazy_nr
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
vmalloc-align-nr_vmalloc_pages-and-vmap_lazy_nr.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: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Subject: vmalloc: align nr_vmalloc_pages and vmap_lazy_nr
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:12:16 +0200
Currently both atomics share one cache-line:
<snip>
...
ffffffff83eab400 b vmap_lazy_nr
ffffffff83eab408 b nr_vmalloc_pages
...
<snip>
those are global variables and they are only 8 bytes apart. Since they
are modified by different threads this causes a false sharing. This can
lead to a performance drop due to unnecessary cache invalidations.
After this patch it is aligned to a cache line boundary:
<snip>
...
ffffffff8260a600 d vmap_lazy_nr
ffffffff8260a640 d nr_vmalloc_pages
...
<snip>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250417161216.88318-4-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com>
Tested-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Christop Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~vmalloc-align-nr_vmalloc_pages-and-vmap_lazy_nr
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1008,7 +1008,8 @@ static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(vmap_notif
static void drain_vmap_area_work(struct work_struct *work);
static DECLARE_WORK(drain_vmap_work, drain_vmap_area_work);
-static atomic_long_t nr_vmalloc_pages;
+static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp atomic_long_t nr_vmalloc_pages;
+static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp atomic_long_t vmap_lazy_nr;
unsigned long vmalloc_nr_pages(void)
{
@@ -2117,8 +2118,6 @@ static unsigned long lazy_max_pages(void
return log * (32UL * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE);
}
-static atomic_long_t vmap_lazy_nr = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
-
/*
* Serialize vmap purging. There is no actual critical section protected
* by this lock, but we want to avoid concurrent calls for performance
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from urezki@gmail.com are
maintainers-add-myself-as-vmalloc-co-maintainer.patch
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