[PATCH 3/3] Page Fault Scalability V20: Avoid lock for anonymous write fault

Christoph Lameter
2005-04-29T19:59:17Z

Do not use the page_table_lock in do_anonymous_page. This will significantly
increase the parallelism in the page fault handler for SMP systems. The patch
also modifies the definitions of _mm_counter functions so that rss and anon_rss
become atomic (and will use atomic64_t if available).

For the benefit of these performance enhancements see the charts at
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/page_fault_performance/atomic-ptes.pdf

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

Index: linux-2.6.11/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.11.orig/mm/memory.c 2005-04-29 10:31:50.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.11/mm/memory.c 2005-04-29 10:33:06.000000000 -0700
@@ -1790,12 +1790,12 @@ do_anonymous_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(mk_pte(page,
vma->vm_page_prot)),
vma);
- spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+ page_table_atomic_start(mm);

if (!ptep_cmpxchg(mm, addr, page_table, orig_entry, entry)) {
pte_unmap(page_table);
page_cache_release(page);
- spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+ page_table_atomic_stop(mm);
inc_page_state(cmpxchg_fail_anon_write);
return VM_FAULT_MINOR;
}
@@ -1811,7 +1811,7 @@ do_anonymous_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
pte_unmap(page_table);
update_mmu_cache(vma, addr, entry);
lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
- spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+ page_table_atomic_stop(mm);
return VM_FAULT_MINOR;
}

Index: linux-2.6.11/include/linux/sched.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.11.orig/include/linux/sched.h 2005-04-29 08:25:55.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.11/include/linux/sched.h 2005-04-29 10:33:06.000000000 -0700
@@ -204,12 +204,43 @@ arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(struct fi
extern void arch_unmap_area(struct vm_area_struct *area);
extern void arch_unmap_area_topdown(struct vm_area_struct *area);

+#ifdef CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS
+/*
+ * No spinlock is held during atomic page table operations. The
+ * counters are not protected anymore and must also be
+ * incremented atomically.
+*/
+#ifdef ATOMIC64_INIT
+#define set_mm_counter(mm, member, value) atomic64_set(&(mm)->_##member, value)
+#define get_mm_counter(mm, member) ((unsigned long)atomic64_read(&(mm)->_##member))
+#define add_mm_counter(mm, member, value) atomic64_add(value, &(mm)->_##member)
+#define inc_mm_counter(mm, member) atomic64_dec(&(mm)->_##member)
+#define dec_mm_counter(mm, member) atomic64_dec(&(mm)->_##member)
+typedef atomic64_t mm_counter_t;
+#else
+/*
+ * This may limit process memory to 2^31 * PAGE_SIZE which may be around 8TB
+ * if using 4KB page size
+ */
+#define set_mm_counter(mm, member, value) atomic_set(&(mm)->_##member, value)
+#define get_mm_counter(mm, member) ((unsigned long)atomic_read(&(mm)->_##member))
+#define add_mm_counter(mm, member, value) atomic_add(value, &(mm)->_##member)
+#define inc_mm_counter(mm, member) atomic_inc(&(mm)->_##member)
+#define dec_mm_counter(mm, member) atomic_dec(&(mm)->_##member)
+typedef atomic_t mm_counter_t;
+#endif
+#else
+/*
+ * No atomic page table operations. Counters are protected by
+ * the page table lock
+ */
#define set_mm_counter(mm, member, value) (mm)->_##member = (value)
#define get_mm_counter(mm, member) ((mm)->_##member)
#define add_mm_counter(mm, member, value) (mm)->_##member += (value)
#define inc_mm_counter(mm, member) (mm)->_##member++
#define dec_mm_counter(mm, member) (mm)->_##member--
typedef unsigned long mm_counter_t;
+#endif

struct mm_struct {
struct vm_area_struct * mmap; /* list of VMAs */