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SubjectRe: [PATCH] breaking up the pagemap_lru_lock in rmap
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On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 19:04, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> High contention on the pagemap_lru lock seems to be a major
> scalability problem for rmap at the moment. Based on wli's and
> Rik's suggestions, I've made a first cut at a patch to split up the
> lock into a per-page lock for each pte_chain.
>
> This isn't ready to go yet - I'm not going to pretend it works. I'm
> looking for feedback on the approach, and any obvious blunders
> I've made in coding. I plan to move the lock in the pages_struct
> into the flags field to save space once it's working reliably.
>
> If I may steal akpm's favourite disclaimer - "I know diddly squat
> about ......" ;-) Flame away .....
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin.
>

Hi, knowing less that diddly squat about the code being discussed.
I would like to mention that I usually use some little macro's
to get rid of code like:

lock( my_lock);
if ( exp) {
unlock( my_lock);
/* do fancy stuph */
} else
unlock( my_lock);

and make it look like this:

#define LOCK_EXP_F( exp, lock, f_lock, f_unlock) \
({ typeof( exp) e; \
f_lock( lock); \
e = (exp); \
f_unlock( lock); \
e; })

#define PAGELOCK_EXP( exp, page) \
LOCK_EXP_F( exp, page, pte_chain_lock, pte_chain_unlock)


if ( PAGELOCK_EXP( !page->pte_chain &&
(!page->buffers || do_flushpage( page, 0)), page))
lru_cache_del( page);


If this is a not accepted coding style, so be it.

Another little thing I've been wondering about is why keep using
LRU style caches. Has anybody ever thought about using LRU-K
caches? I know, they aren't O(1), but O(log(n)) isn't that bad
agains the advantages:
- easier to make concurrent (no head contention)
- better caching properties (takes low frequency
entries and cache sweeps into account)

just my 2ct.

Regards,

Peter Zijlstra




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