Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757336Ab0DIIft (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Apr 2010 04:35:49 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:36138 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757048Ab0DIIfg (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Apr 2010 04:35:36 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] mm: preemptibility -v2 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Avi Kivity , Thomas Gleixner , Rik van Riel , Ingo Molnar , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , David Miller , Hugh Dickins , Mel Gorman In-Reply-To: <20100409041421.GM5683@laptop> References: <20100408191737.296180458@chello.nl> <20100409041421.GM5683@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:35:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1270802131.20295.3270.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2422 Lines: 60 On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:14 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:17:37PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This (still incomplete) patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. > > It converts i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes. On the way there it > > also makes mmu_gather preemptible. > > > > The main motivation was making mm_take_all_locks() preemptible, since it > > appears people are nesting hundreds of spinlocks there. > > > > The side-effects are that we can finally make mmu_gather preemptible, something > > which lots of people have wanted to do for a long time. > > What's the straight-line performance impact of all this? And how about > concurrency, I wonder. mutexes of course are double the atomics, and > you've added a refcount which is two more again for those paths using > it. > > Page faults are very important. We unfortunately have some databases > doing a significant amount of mmap/munmap activity too. You think this would affect the mmap/munmap times in any significant way? It seems to me those are relatively heavy ops to begin with. > I'd like to > see microbenchmark numbers for each of those (both anon and file backed > for page faults). OK, I'll dig out that fault test used in the whole mmap_sem/rwsem thread a while back and modify it to also do file backed faults. > kbuild does quite a few pages faults, that would be an easy thing to > test. Not sure what reasonable kinds of cases exercise parallelism. > > > > What kind of performance tests would people have me run on this to satisfy > > their need for numbers? I've done a kernel build on x86_64 and if anything that > > was slightly faster with these patches, but it was well within the noise > > levels so it might be heat noise I'm looking at ;-) > > Is it because you're reducing the number of TLB flushes, or what > (kbuild isn't multi threaded so on x86 TLB flushes should be really > fast anyway). I'll try and get some perf stat runs to get some insight into this. But the numbers were: time make O=defconfig -j48 bzImage (5x, cache hot) without: avg: 39.2018s +- 0.3407 with: avg: 38.9886s +- 0.1814 -- 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/