linux/arch/sparc/mm
Shaohua Li ec8acf20af swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile
swap_lock is heavily contended when I test swap to 3 fast SSD (even
slightly slower than swap to 2 such SSD).  The main contention comes
from swap_info_get().  This patch tries to fix the gap with adding a new
per-partition lock.

Global data like nr_swapfiles, total_swap_pages, least_priority and
swap_list are still protected by swap_lock.

nr_swap_pages is an atomic now, it can be changed without swap_lock.  In
theory, it's possible get_swap_page() finds no swap pages but actually
there are free swap pages.  But sounds not a big problem.

Accessing partition specific data (like scan_swap_map and so on) is only
protected by swap_info_struct.lock.

Changing swap_info_struct.flags need hold swap_lock and
swap_info_struct.lock, because scan_scan_map() will check it.  read the
flags is ok with either the locks hold.

If both swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock must be hold, we always hold
the former first to avoid deadlock.

swap_entry_free() can change swap_list.  To delete that code, we add a
new highest_priority_index.  Whenever get_swap_page() is called, we
check it.  If it's valid, we use it.

It's a pity get_swap_page() still holds swap_lock().  But in practice,
swap_lock() isn't heavily contended in my test with this patch (or I can
say there are other much more heavier bottlenecks like TLB flush).  And
BTW, looks get_swap_page() doesn't really need the lock.  We never free
swap_info[] and we check SWAP_WRITEOK flag.  The only risk without the
lock is we could swapout to some low priority swap, but we can quickly
recover after several rounds of swap, so sounds not a big deal to me.
But I'd prefer to fix this if it's a real problem.

"swap: make each swap partition have one address_space" improved the
swapout speed from 1.7G/s to 2G/s.  This patch further improves the
speed to 2.3G/s, so around 15% improvement.  It's a multi-process test,
so TLB flush isn't the biggest bottleneck before the patches.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix it for nommu]
[hughd@google.com: add missing unlock]
[minchan@kernel.org: get rid of lockdep whinge on sys_swapon]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-23 17:50:17 -08:00
..
extable.c
fault_32.c readahead: fault retry breaks mmap file read random detection 2012-10-09 16:22:47 +09:00
fault_64.c sparc64: Fix tsb_grow() in atomic context. 2013-02-20 09:46:08 -08:00
gup.c sparc64: Fix get_user_pages_fast() wrt. THP. 2013-02-13 12:22:14 -08:00
highmem.c sparc32: move kmap_init() to highmem.c 2012-07-26 16:46:17 -07:00
hugetlbpage.c mm: use vm_unmapped_area() in hugetlbfs on sparc64 architecture 2012-12-11 17:22:26 -08:00
hypersparc.S
init_32.c swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile 2013-02-23 17:50:17 -08:00
init_64.c memory-hotplug: remove memmap of sparse-vmemmap 2013-02-23 17:50:12 -08:00
init_64.h sparc64: Support 2GB and 16GB page sizes for kernel linear mappings. 2012-09-06 18:13:58 -07:00
io-unit.c sparc32: Convert mmu_* interfaces from btfixup to method ops. 2012-05-13 13:57:05 -07:00
iommu.c sparc: fix format string argument for prom_printf() 2012-10-02 23:20:34 -04:00
leon_mm.c sparc32: srmmu_probe now knows about leon too 2012-05-27 23:52:51 -07:00
Makefile sparc32: introduce run-time patching of srmmu access functions 2012-05-27 23:52:49 -07:00
srmmu_access.S sparc32: introduce run-time patching of srmmu access functions 2012-05-27 23:52:49 -07:00
srmmu.c sparc32: move probe_memory() to srmmu.c 2012-07-26 16:46:17 -07:00
srmmu.h sparc32,leon: move leon mmu functions to leon_mm.c 2012-05-19 23:27:38 -07:00
swift.S
tlb.c sparc64: Fix tsb_grow() in atomic context. 2013-02-20 09:46:08 -08:00
tsb.c sparc64: Fix gfp_flags setting in tsb_grow(). 2013-02-20 09:45:53 -08:00
tsunami.S
ultra.S sparc64: Add global PMU register dumping via sysrq. 2012-10-16 09:34:01 -07:00
viking.S sparc32: remove runtime btfix support 2012-05-14 14:05:09 -07:00