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Execs of dynamically linked binaries at 20-ish cores are bottlenecked on the i_mmap_rwsem semaphore, while the biggest singular contributor is free_pgd_range inducing the lock acquire back-to-back for all consecutive mappings of a given file. Tracing the count of said acquires while building the kernel shows: [1, 2) 799579 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [2, 3) 0 | | [3, 4) 3009 | | [4, 5) 3009 | | [5, 6) 326442 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | So in particular there were 326442 opportunities to coalesce 5 acquires into 1. Doing so increases execs per second by 4% (~50k to ~52k) when running the benchmark linked below. The lock remains the main bottleneck, I have not looked at other spots yet. Bench can be found here: http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/doexec.c $ cc -O2 -o shared-doexec doexec.c $ ./shared-doexec $(nproc) Note this particular test makes sure binaries are separate, but the loader is shared. Stats collected on the patched kernel (+ "noinline") with: bpftrace -e 'kprobe:unlink_file_vma_batch_process { @ = lhist(((struct unlink_vma_file_batch *)arg0)->count, 0, 8, 1); }' Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240521234321.359501-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.