Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > Kirill posted split_ptl patchset for thp today, so in this version > I post only hugetlbfs part. I added Kconfig variables in following > Kirill's patches (although without CONFIG_SPLIT_*_PTLOCK_CPUS.) > > This patch changes many lines, but all are in hugetlbfs specific code, > so I think we can apply this independent of thp patches. > ----- > From: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:12:30 -0400 > Subject: [PATCH v4] hugetlbfs: support split page table lock > > Currently all of page table handling by hugetlbfs code are done under > mm->page_table_lock. So when a process have many threads and they heavily > access to the memory, lock contention happens and impacts the performance. > > This patch makes hugepage support split page table lock so that we use > page->ptl of the leaf node of page table tree which is pte for normal pages > but can be pmd and/or pud for hugepages of some architectures. > > ChangeLog v4: > - introduce arch dependent macro ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_HUGETLB_PTLOCK > (only defined for x86 for now) > - rename USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS_HUGETLB to USE_SPLIT_HUGETLB_PTLOCKS
Can we have separate locking for THP and hugetlb ? Doesn't both require us to use same locking when updating pmd ? -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
