From 34e55232e59f7b19050267a05ff1226e5cd122a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:41:40 -0800 Subject: mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path. This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter. RSS value will be counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at events. Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault. Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls. rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows [before] 4.5 cache-miss/faults [after] 4.0 cache-miss/faults Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/exec.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs/exec.c') diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index cce6bbdbdbb1..ea7861727efd 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -718,6 +718,7 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm) /* Notify parent that we're no longer interested in the old VM */ tsk = current; old_mm = current->mm; + sync_mm_rss(tsk, old_mm); mm_release(tsk, old_mm); if (old_mm) { -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151