From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: page fault fastpath: Increasing SMP scalability by introducing pte locks?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:56:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040815185644.24ecb247.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408151703580.3751@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:11:53 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> pgd/pmd walking should be possible always even without the vma semaphore
> since the CPU can potentially walk the chain at anytime.
munmap() can destroy pmd and pte tables. somehow we have
to protect against that, and currently that is having the
VMA semaphore held for reading, see free_pgtables().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-16 1:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-15 13:50 page fault fastpath: Increasing SMP scalability by introducing pte locks? Christoph Lameter
2004-08-15 20:09 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-15 22:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-15 23:58 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-16 0:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-16 1:56 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-16 3:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-16 7:00 ` Ray Bryant
2004-08-16 15:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-16 16:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-16 14:39 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-17 15:28 ` page fault fastpath patch v2: fix race conditions, stats for 8,32 and 512 cpu SMP Christoph Lameter
2004-08-17 15:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-17 15:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-18 17:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-18 20:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-19 1:19 ` Christoph Lameter
[not found] ` <B6E8046E1E28D34EB815A11AC8CA3129027B679F@mtv-atc-605e--n.corp.sgi.com>
2004-08-24 4:43 ` page fault scalability patch v3: use cmpxchg, make rss atomic Christoph Lameter
2004-08-24 5:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-24 12:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-24 14:47 ` Christoph Lameter
[not found] ` <B6E8046E1E28D34EB815A11AC8CA3129027B67A9@mtv-atc-605e--n.corp.sgi.com>
2004-08-26 15:20 ` page fault scalability patch v4: reduce page_table_lock use, atomic pmd,pgd handlin Christoph Lameter
[not found] ` <B6E8046E1E28D34EB815A11AC8CA3129027B67B4@mtv-atc-605e--n.corp.sgi.com>
2004-08-27 23:20 ` page fault scalability patch final : i386 tested, x86_64 support added Christoph Lameter
2004-08-27 23:36 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-27 23:43 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-28 0:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-28 0:23 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-28 0:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 0:40 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-28 1:05 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-28 1:11 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-28 1:17 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-28 1:02 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-28 1:39 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 2:08 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-08-28 3:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-28 3:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 4:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-28 5:39 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 5:58 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-28 6:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28 6:06 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-30 17:02 ` Herbert Poetzl
2004-08-30 17:05 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-28 13:19 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-28 15:48 ` Matt Mackall
2004-09-01 4:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-02 21:26 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-02 21:55 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-01 18:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-01 18:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-01 19:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-08-28 21:41 ` Daniel Phillips
2004-09-01 4:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-01 5:22 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-01 16:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-01 23:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0409012140440.23186@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
[not found] ` <20040901215741.3538bbf4.davem@davemloft.net>
2004-09-02 5:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-09-09 15:38 ` page fault scalability patch: V7 (+fallback for atomic page table ops) Christoph Lameter
2004-09-02 16:24 ` page fault scalability patch final : i386 tested, x86_64 support added Christoph Lameter
2004-09-02 20:10 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-02 21:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-02 21:07 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-18 23:23 ` page fault scalability patch V8: [0/7] Description Christoph Lameter
[not found] ` <B6E8046E1E28D34EB815A11AC8CA312902CD3243@mtv-atc-605e--n.corp.sgi.com>
2004-09-18 23:24 ` page fault scalability patch V8: [1/7] make mm->rss atomic Christoph Lameter
2004-09-18 23:26 ` page fault scalability patch V8: [2/7] avoid page_table_lock in handle_mm_fault Christoph Lameter
2004-09-19 9:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-18 23:27 ` page fault scalability patch V8: [3/7] atomic pte operations for ia64 Christoph Lameter
2004-09-18 23:28 ` page fault scalability patch V8: [4/7] universally available cmpxchg on i386 Christoph Lameter
[not found] ` <200409191430.37444.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-09-19 12:11 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-20 15:45 ` Christoph Lameter
[not found] ` <200409202043.00580.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-09-20 20:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-09-20 20:57 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <200409211841.25507.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-09-21 15:45 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] ` <200409212306.38800.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-09-21 20:14 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-23 7:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-09-23 9:03 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-27 19:06 ` page fault scalability patch V9: [0/7] overview Christoph Lameter
2004-10-15 19:02 ` page fault scalability patch V10: " Christoph Lameter
2004-10-15 19:03 ` page fault scalability patch V10: [1/7] make rss atomic Christoph Lameter
2004-10-15 19:04 ` page fault scalability patch V10: [2/7] defer/omit taking page_table_lock Christoph Lameter
2004-10-15 20:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-18 15:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-10-19 5:25 ` [revised] " Christoph Lameter
2004-10-15 19:05 ` page fault scalability patch V10: [3/7] IA64 atomic pte operations Christoph Lameter
2004-10-15 19:06 ` page fault scalability patch V10: [4/7] cmpxchg for 386 and 486 Christoph Lameter
2004-10-15 19:06 ` page fault scalability patch V10: [5/7] i386 atomic pte operations Christoph Lameter
2004-10-15 19:07 ` page fault scalability patch V10: [6/7] x86_64 " Christoph Lameter
2004-10-15 19:08 ` page fault scalability patch V10: [7/7] s/390 " Christoph Lameter
[not found] ` <B6E8046E1E28D34EB815A11AC8CA312902CD3282@mtv-atc-605e--n.corp.sgi.com>
2004-09-27 19:07 ` page fault scalability patch V9: [1/7] make mm->rss atomic Christoph Lameter
2004-09-27 19:08 ` page fault scalability patch V9: [2/7] defer/remove page_table_lock Christoph Lameter
2004-09-27 19:10 ` page fault scalability patch V9: [3/7] atomic pte operatios for ia64 Christoph Lameter
2004-09-27 19:10 ` page fault scalability patch V9: [4/7] generally available cmpxchg on i386 Christoph Lameter
2004-09-27 19:11 ` page fault scalability patch V9: [5/7] atomic pte operations for i386 Christoph Lameter
2004-09-27 19:12 ` page fault scalability patch V9: [6/7] atomic pte operations for x86_64 Christoph Lameter
2004-09-27 19:13 ` page fault scalability patch V9: [7/7] atomic pte operatiosn for s390 Christoph Lameter
2004-09-18 23:29 ` page fault scalability patch V8: [5/7] atomic pte operations for i386 Christoph Lameter
2004-09-18 23:30 ` page fault scalability patch V8: [6/7] atomic pte operations for x86_64 Christoph Lameter
2004-09-18 23:31 ` page fault scalability patch V8: [7/7] atomic pte operations for s390 Christoph Lameter
[not found] ` <200409191435.09445.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-09-20 15:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-15 22:38 ` page fault fastpath: Increasing SMP scalability by introducing pte locks? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-16 17:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-17 8:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
[not found] <2ttIr-2e4-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2tzE4-6sw-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2tCiw-8pK-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-15 23:53 ` Andi Kleen
2004-08-15 23:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-08-16 0:12 ` Andi Kleen
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