On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 09:02:01PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hazard pointers appear to be a good fit for replacing refcount based lazy
> active mm tracking.
> 
> Highlight:
> 
> will-it-scale context_switch1_threads
> 
> nr threads (-t)     speedup
>     24                +3%
>     48               +12%
>     96               +21%
>    192               +28%

Impressive!!!

I have to ask...  Any data for smaller numbers of CPUs?

                                                        Thanx, Paul

> I'm curious to see what the build bots have to say about this.
> 
> This series applies on top of v6.11.1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.f...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu>
> Cc: John Stultz <jstu...@google.com>
> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadh...@amd.com>
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.f...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frede...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <j...@joelfernandes.org>
> Cc: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>
> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <ure...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Waiman Long <long...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
> Cc: maged.mich...@gmail.com
> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjgu...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jonas Oberhauser <jonas.oberhau...@huaweicloud.com>
> Cc: r...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux...@kvack.org
> Cc: l...@lists.linux.dev
> 
> Mathieu Desnoyers (4):
>   compiler.h: Introduce ptr_eq() to preserve address dependency
>   Documentation: RCU: Refer to ptr_eq()
>   hp: Implement Hazard Pointers
>   sched+mm: Use hazard pointers to track lazy active mm existence
> 
>  Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst |  38 ++++++-
>  Documentation/mm/active_mm.rst        |   9 +-
>  arch/Kconfig                          |  32 ------
>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                  |   1 -
>  arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_tlb.c  |  23 +---
>  include/linux/compiler.h              |  63 +++++++++++
>  include/linux/hp.h                    | 154 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/mm_types.h              |   3 -
>  include/linux/sched/mm.h              |  71 +++++-------
>  kernel/Makefile                       |   2 +-
>  kernel/exit.c                         |   4 +-
>  kernel/fork.c                         |  47 ++------
>  kernel/hp.c                           |  46 ++++++++
>  kernel/sched/sched.h                  |   8 +-
>  lib/Kconfig.debug                     |  10 --
>  15 files changed, 346 insertions(+), 165 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/hp.h
>  create mode 100644 kernel/hp.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.39.2

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