mm/vmalloc: eliminated the lock contention from twice to once
When allocating a new memory area where the mapping address range is known, it is observed that the vmap_node->busy.lock is acquired twice. The first acquisition occurs in the alloc_vmap_area() function when inserting the vm area into the vm mapping red-black tree. The second acquisition occurs in the setup_vmalloc_vm() function when updating the properties of the vm, such as flags and address, etc. Combine these two operations together in alloc_vmap_area(), which improves scalability when the vmap_node->busy.lock is contended. By doing so, the need to acquire the lock twice can also be eliminated to once. With the above change, tested on intel sapphire rapids platform(224 vcpu), a 4% performance improvement is gained on stress-ng/pthread(https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng), which is the stress test of thread creations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240307021440.64967-1-rulin.huang@intel.comCo-developed-by: "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Co-developed-by: "King, Colin" <colin.king@intel.com> Signed-off-by: "King, Colin" <colin.king@intel.com> Signed-off-by: rulinhuang <rulin.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Wangyang Guo <wangyang.guo@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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