From 4a8c7bb59ac85b038c29adf6d32ff56e11fbb267 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Zimmer Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:18:36 -0800 Subject: mm/mempolicy.c: convert the shared_policy lock to a rwlock When running the SPECint_rate gcc on some very large boxes it was noticed that the system was spending lots of time in mpol_shared_policy_lookup(). The gamess benchmark can also show it and is what I mostly used to chase down the issue since the setup for that I found to be easier. To be clear the binaries were on tmpfs because of disk I/O requirements. We then used text replication to avoid icache misses and having all the copies banging on the memory where the instruction code resides. This results in us hitting a bottleneck in mpol_shared_policy_lookup() since lookup is serialised by the shared_policy lock. I have only reproduced this on very large (3k+ cores) boxes. The problem starts showing up at just a few hundred ranks getting worse until it threatens to livelock once it gets large enough. For example on the gamess benchmark at 128 ranks this area consumes only ~1% of time, at 512 ranks it consumes nearly 13%, and at 2k ranks it is over 90%. To alleviate the contention in this area I converted the spinlock to an rwlock. This allows a large number of lookups to happen simultaneously. The results were quite good reducing this consumtion at max ranks to around 2%. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up code comments] Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Nadia Yvette Chambers Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mempolicy.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c') diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 87a177917cb2..d8caff071a30 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2142,12 +2142,14 @@ bool __mpol_equal(struct mempolicy *a, struct mempolicy *b) * * Remember policies even when nobody has shared memory mapped. * The policies are kept in Red-Black tree linked from the inode. - * They are protected by the sp->lock spinlock, which should be held + * They are protected by the sp->lock rwlock, which should be held * for any accesses to the tree. */ -/* lookup first element intersecting start-end */ -/* Caller holds sp->lock */ +/* + * lookup first element intersecting start-end. Caller holds sp->lock for + * reading or for writing + */ static struct sp_node * sp_lookup(struct shared_policy *sp, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { @@ -2178,8 +2180,10 @@ sp_lookup(struct shared_policy *sp, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) return rb_entry(n, struct sp_node, nd); } -/* Insert a new shared policy into the list. */ -/* Caller holds sp->lock */ +/* + * Insert a new shared policy into the list. Caller holds sp->lock for + * writing. + */ static void sp_insert(struct shared_policy *sp, struct sp_node *new) { struct rb_node **p = &sp->root.rb_node; @@ -2211,13 +2215,13 @@ mpol_shared_policy_lookup(struct shared_policy *sp, unsigned long idx) if (!sp->root.rb_node) return NULL; - spin_lock(&sp->lock); + read_lock(&sp->lock); sn = sp_lookup(sp, idx, idx+1); if (sn) { mpol_get(sn->policy); pol = sn->policy; } - spin_unlock(&sp->lock); + read_unlock(&sp->lock); return pol; } @@ -2360,7 +2364,7 @@ static int shared_policy_replace(struct shared_policy *sp, unsigned long start, int ret = 0; restart: - spin_lock(&sp->lock); + write_lock(&sp->lock); n = sp_lookup(sp, start, end); /* Take care of old policies in the same range. */ while (n && n->start < end) { @@ -2393,7 +2397,7 @@ restart: } if (new) sp_insert(sp, new); - spin_unlock(&sp->lock); + write_unlock(&sp->lock); ret = 0; err_out: @@ -2405,7 +2409,7 @@ err_out: return ret; alloc_new: - spin_unlock(&sp->lock); + write_unlock(&sp->lock); ret = -ENOMEM; n_new = kmem_cache_alloc(sn_cache, GFP_KERNEL); if (!n_new) @@ -2431,7 +2435,7 @@ void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, struct mempolicy *mpol) int ret; sp->root = RB_ROOT; /* empty tree == default mempolicy */ - spin_lock_init(&sp->lock); + rwlock_init(&sp->lock); if (mpol) { struct vm_area_struct pvma; @@ -2497,14 +2501,14 @@ void mpol_free_shared_policy(struct shared_policy *p) if (!p->root.rb_node) return; - spin_lock(&p->lock); + write_lock(&p->lock); next = rb_first(&p->root); while (next) { n = rb_entry(next, struct sp_node, nd); next = rb_next(&n->nd); sp_delete(p, n); } - spin_unlock(&p->lock); + write_unlock(&p->lock); } #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522