On 2024-10-02 16:09, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
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?
Sure, but they are far less exciting ;-)
nr threads (-t) speedup
1 -0.2%
2 +0.4%
3 +0.2%
6 +0.6%
12 +0.8%
24 +3%
48 +12%
96 +21%
192 +28%
384 +4%
768 -0.6%
Thanks,
Mathieu
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>
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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
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2.39.2
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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
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