Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754804Ab0AEPSR (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:18:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752862Ab0AEPSP (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:18:15 -0500 Received: from nlpi157.sbcis.sbc.com ([207.115.36.171]:33751 "EHLO nlpi157.prodigy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753568Ab0AEPSL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:18:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:17:11 -0600 (CST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@router.home To: Arjan van de Ven cc: Peter Zijlstra , "Paul E. McKenney" , Peter Zijlstra , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "minchan.kim@gmail.com" , "hugh.dickins" , Nick Piggin , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault() In-Reply-To: <20100105054536.44bf8002@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20100104182429.833180340@chello.nl> <20100104182813.753545361@chello.nl> <20100105054536.44bf8002@infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 17 On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > while I appreciate the goal of reducing contention on this lock... > wouldn't step one be to remove the page zeroing from under this lock? > that's by far (easily by 10x I would guess) the most expensive thing > that's done under the lock, and I would expect a first order of > contention reduction just by having the zeroing of a page not done > under the lock... The main issue is cacheline bouncing. mmap sem is a rw semaphore and only held for read during a fault. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/