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  1. 14 Feb, 2011 4 commits
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      x86: Scale up the number of TLB invalidate vectors with NR_CPUs, up to 32 · 70e4a369
      Shaohua Li authored 
      Make the maxium TLB invalidate vectors depend on NR_CPUS linearly,
with a maximum of 32 vectors.

We currently only have 8 vectors for TLB invalidation and that is clearly
inadequate. If we have a lot of CPUs, the CPUs need share the 8 vectors and
tlbstate_lock is used to protect them. flush_tlb_page() is
heavily used in page reclaim, which will cause a lot of lock
contention for tlbstate_lock.

Andi Kleen suggested increasing the vectors number to 32, which should be
good for current typical systems to reduce the tlbstate_lock contention.

My test system has 4 sockets and 64G memory, and 64 CPUs. My
workload creates 64 processes. Each process mmap reads a big
empty sparse file. The total size of the files are 2*total_mem,
so this will cause a lot of page reclaim.

Below is the result I get from perf call-graph profiling:

 without the patch:
 ------------------

    24.25%           usemem  [kernel]                                   [k] _raw_spin_lock
                     |
                     --- _raw_spin_lock
                        |
                        |--42.15%-- native_flush_tlb_others

 with the patch:
 ------------------

    14.96%           usemem  [kernel]                                   [k] _raw_spin_lock
                     |
                     --- _raw_spin_lock
                        |--13.89%-- native_flush_tlb_others

So this heavily reduces the tlbstate_lock contention.
Suggested-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1295232727.1949.709.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      70e4a369
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      x86: Allocate 32 tlb_invalidate_interrupt handler stubs · 3a09fb45
      Shaohua Li authored 
      Add up to 32 invalidate_interrupt handlers. How many handlers are
added depends on NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS. So if
NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS is smaller than 32, we reduce code
size.
Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1295232725.1949.708.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3a09fb45
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      x86: Cleanup vector usage · 60f6e65d
      Shaohua Li authored 
      Cleanup the vector usage and make them continuous if possible.
Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1295232722.1949.707.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      60f6e65d
    • David Miller's avatar
      klist: Fix object alignment on 64-bit. · 795abaf1
      David Miller authored 
      Commit c0e69a5b ("klist.c: bit 0 in pointer can't be used as flag")
intended to make sure that all klist objects were at least pointer size
aligned, but used the constant "4" which only works on 32-bit.

Use "sizeof(void *)" which is correct in all cases.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: default avatarJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      795abaf1
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