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SubjectRe: page fault fastpath: Increasing SMP scalability by introducing pte
Christoph wrote:

>Well this is more an idea than a real patch yet. The page_table_lock
>becomes a bottleneck if more than 4 CPUs are rapidly allocating and using
>memory. "pft" is a program that measures the performance of page faults on
>SMP system. It allocates memory simultaneously in multiple threads thereby
>causing lots of page faults for anonymous pages.
>
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Very odd. Why do you see a problem with the page_table_lock but no
problem from the mmap semaphore?
The page fault codepath acquires both.
How often is the page table lock acquired per page fault? Just once or
multiple spin_lock calls per page fault? Is the problem contention or
cache line trashing?

Do you have profile/lockmeter output? Is the down_read() in
do_page_fault() a hot spot, too?

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Manfred
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