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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2005-10-29 18:16:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-29 21:40:42 -0700
commit4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7 (patch)
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[PATCH] mm: split page table lock
Christoph Lameter demonstrated very poor scalability on the SGI 512-way, with a many-threaded application which concurrently initializes different parts of a large anonymous area. This patch corrects that, by using a separate spinlock per page table page, to guard the page table entries in that page, instead of using the mm's single page_table_lock. (But even then, page_table_lock is still used to guard page table allocation, and anon_vma allocation.) In this implementation, the spinlock is tucked inside the struct page of the page table page: with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case it overflows - which it would in the case of 32-bit PA-RISC with spinlock debugging enabled. Splitting the lock is not quite for free: another cacheline access. Ideally, I suppose we would use split ptlock only for multi-threaded processes on multi-cpu machines; but deciding that dynamically would have its own costs. So for now enable it by config, at some number of cpus - since the Kconfig language doesn't support inequalities, let preprocessor compare that with NR_CPUS. But I don't think it's worth being user-configurable: for good testing of both split and unsplit configs, split now at 4 cpus, and perhaps change that to 8 later. There is a benefit even for singly threaded processes: kswapd can be attacking one part of the mm while another part is busy faulting. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/buffer_head.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/buffer_head.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 88af42f..c937d6e 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ BUFFER_FNS(Eopnotsupp, eopnotsupp)
/* If we *know* page->private refers to buffer_heads */
#define page_buffers(page) \
({ \
- BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)); \
- ((struct buffer_head *)(page)->private); \
+ BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)); \
+ ((struct buffer_head *)page_private(page)); \
})
#define page_has_buffers(page) PagePrivate(page)
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static inline void attach_page_buffers(struct page *page,
{
page_cache_get(page);
SetPagePrivate(page);
- page->private = (unsigned long)head;
+ set_page_private(page, (unsigned long)head);
}
static inline void get_bh(struct buffer_head *bh)
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