From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf0-f70.google.com (mail-lf0-f70.google.com [209.85.215.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14FD9280280 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 05:11:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-lf0-f70.google.com with SMTP id b71so12835309lfg.2 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 02:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-lf0-x22b.google.com (mail-lf0-x22b.google.com. [2a00:1450:4010:c07::22b]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u7si634672lja.18.2016.09.27.02.11.21 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 27 Sep 2016 02:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-lf0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id g62so15459295lfe.3 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 02:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:11:17 +0300 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: Re: page_waitqueue() considered harmful Message-ID: <20160927091117.GA23640@node.shutemov.name> References: <20160927073055.GM2794@worktop> <20160927085412.GD2838@techsingularity.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160927085412.GD2838@techsingularity.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Johannes Weiner , Jan Kara , Rik van Riel , linux-mm On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:54:12AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:30:55AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Also, if those bitlock ops had a different bit that showed contention, > > > we could actually skip *all* of this, and just see that "oh, nobody is > > > waiting on this page anyway, so there's no point in looking up those > > > wait queues". We don't have that many "__wait_on_bit()" users, maybe > > > we could say that the bitlocks do have to haev *two* bits: one for the > > > lock bit itself, and one for "there is contention". > > > > That would be fairly simple to implement, the difficulty would be > > actually getting a page-flag to use for this. We're running pretty low > > in available bits :/ > > Simple is relative unless I drastically overcomplicated things and it > wouldn't be the first time. 64-bit only side-steps the page flag issue > as long as we can live with that. Looks like we don't ever lock slab pages. Unless I miss something. We can try to use PG_locked + PG_slab to indicate contation. I tried to boot kernel with CONFIG_SLUB + BUG_ON(PageSlab()) in trylock/unlock_page() codepath. Works fine, but more inspection is required. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org