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swap_lock is heavily contended when I test swap to 3 fast SSD (even slightly slower than swap to 2 such SSD). The main contention comes from swap_info_get(). This patch tries to fix the gap with adding a new per-partition lock. Global data like nr_swapfiles, total_swap_pages, least_priority and swap_list are still protected by swap_lock. nr_swap_pages is an atomic now, it can be changed without swap_lock. In theory, it's possible get_swap_page() finds no swap pages but actually there are free swap pages. But sounds not a big problem. Accessing partition specific data (like scan_swap_map and so on) is only protected by swap_info_struct.lock. Changing swap_info_struct.flags need hold swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock, because scan_scan_map() will check it. read the flags is ok with either the locks hold. If both swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock must be hold, we always hold the former first to avoid deadlock. swap_entry_free() can change swap_list. To delete that code, we add a new highest_priority_index. Whenever get_swap_page() is called, we check it. If it's valid, we use it. It's a pity get_swap_page() still holds swap_lock(). But in practice, swap_lock() isn't heavily contended in my test with this patch (or I can say there are other much more heavier bottlenecks like TLB flush). And BTW, looks get_swap_page() doesn't really need the lock. We never free swap_info[] and we check SWAP_WRITEOK flag. The only risk without the lock is we could swapout to some low priority swap, but we can quickly recover after several rounds of swap, so sounds not a big deal to me. But I'd prefer to fix this if it's a real problem. "swap: make each swap partition have one address_space" improved the swapout speed from 1.7G/s to 2G/s. This patch further improves the speed to 2.3G/s, so around 15% improvement. It's a multi-process test, so TLB flush isn't the biggest bottleneck before the patches. [arnd@arndb.de: fix it for nommu] [hughd@google.com: add missing unlock] [minchan@kernel.org: get rid of lockdep whinge on sys_swapon] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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backing-dev.c | ||
balloon_compaction.c | ||
bootmem.c | ||
bounce.c | ||
cleancache.c | ||
compaction.c | ||
debug-pagealloc.c | ||
dmapool.c | ||
fadvise.c | ||
failslab.c | ||
filemap_xip.c | ||
filemap.c | ||
fremap.c | ||
frontswap.c | ||
highmem.c | ||
huge_memory.c | ||
hugetlb_cgroup.c | ||
hugetlb.c | ||
hwpoison-inject.c | ||
init-mm.c | ||
internal.h | ||
interval_tree.c | ||
Kconfig | ||
Kconfig.debug | ||
kmemcheck.c | ||
kmemleak-test.c | ||
kmemleak.c | ||
ksm.c | ||
maccess.c | ||
madvise.c | ||
Makefile | ||
memblock.c | ||
memcontrol.c | ||
memory_hotplug.c | ||
memory-failure.c | ||
memory.c | ||
mempolicy.c | ||
mempool.c | ||
migrate.c | ||
mincore.c | ||
mlock.c | ||
mm_init.c | ||
mmap.c | ||
mmu_context.c | ||
mmu_notifier.c | ||
mmzone.c | ||
mprotect.c | ||
mremap.c | ||
msync.c | ||
nobootmem.c | ||
nommu.c | ||
oom_kill.c | ||
page_alloc.c | ||
page_cgroup.c | ||
page_io.c | ||
page_isolation.c | ||
page-writeback.c | ||
pagewalk.c | ||
percpu-km.c | ||
percpu-vm.c | ||
percpu.c | ||
pgtable-generic.c | ||
process_vm_access.c | ||
quicklist.c | ||
readahead.c | ||
rmap.c | ||
shmem.c | ||
slab_common.c | ||
slab.c | ||
slab.h | ||
slob.c | ||
slub.c | ||
sparse-vmemmap.c | ||
sparse.c | ||
swap_state.c | ||
swap.c | ||
swapfile.c | ||
truncate.c | ||
util.c | ||
vmalloc.c | ||
vmscan.c | ||
vmstat.c |