On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 07:27:23AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> This patchset attempts to reduce the amount of contention we impose
> on the hugetlb_instantiation_mutex by replacing the global mutex with
> a table of mutexes, selected based on a hash. The original discussion can
> be found here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/12/428
Hello, Davidlohr.
I recently sent a patchset which remove the hugetlb_instantiation_mutex
entirely ('mm, hugetlb: remove a hugetlb_instantiation_mutex').
This patchset can be found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/29/54
If possible, could you review it and test it whether your problem is
disappered with it or not?
Thanks.
>
> Patch 1: Allows the file region tracking list to be serialized by its own
> rwsem.
> This is necessary because the next patch allows concurrent hugepage fault
> paths,
> getting rid of the hugetlb_instantiation_mutex - which protects chains of
> struct
> file_regionin inode->i_mapping->private_list (VM_MAYSHARE) or
> vma_resv_map(vma)->regions
> (!VM_MAYSHARE).
>
> Patch 2: From David Gibson, for some reason never made it into the kernel.
> Further cleanups and enhancements from Anton Blanchard and myself.
> Details of how the hash key is selected is in the patch.
>
> Davidlohr Bueso (2):
> hugepage: protect file regions with rwsem
> hugepage: allow parallelization of the hugepage fault path
>
> mm/hugetlb.c | 134
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 106 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>
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