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* [PATCH 0/7] abstract pagetable locking and pte updates
@ 2004-10-29  7:20 Nick Piggin
  2004-10-29  7:20 ` [PATCH 1/7] " Nick Piggin
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From: Nick Piggin @ 2004-10-29  7:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux Memory Management

Hello,

Following are patches that abstract page table operations to
allow lockless implementations by using cmpxchg or per-pte locks.

The work is inspired by and uses parts of Christoph Lameter's
pte cmpxchg work. It is not a clearly superior approach, but
an alternative way to tackle the problem.

It is a lot more intrusive, but it has also gone a bit further
in reducing page_table_lock usage. It is also designed with pte
locking in mind, which may be needed for PPC64, and will allow
100% removal of the page table lock.

The API is a transactional one, which fitted the problem quite
well in my mind. Please read comments for patch 4/7 for a more
detailed overview.

It is stable so far on i386 and x86-64. Page fault performance
on a quad opteron is up maybe 150%. Oh and it also rids
page_referenced_one of the page_table_lock, which could be a
win in some situations.

Known issues: Hugepages, nonlinear pages haven't been looked at
and are quite surely broken. TLB flushing (gather/finish) runs
without the page table lock, which will break at least SPARC64.
Additional atomic ops in copy_page_range slow down lmbench fork
by 7%.

Comments and discussion about this and/or Christoph's patches
welcome. They apply to 2.6.10-rc1-bk7

Thanks,
Nick

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2004-10-29  7:21     ` [PATCH 3/7] " Nick Piggin
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2004-10-29  7:22         ` [PATCH 5/7] " Nick Piggin
2004-10-29  7:23           ` [PATCH 6/7] " Nick Piggin
2004-10-29  7:23             ` [PATCH 7/7] " Nick Piggin
2004-10-29  7:46 ` [PATCH 0/7] " William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-02  0:15   ` Christoph Lameter
2004-11-02  0:54     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-02  1:34       ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-02  1:55         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-02  2:38           ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-02  6:57             ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-02 17:55         ` Christoph Lameter
2004-10-29 11:45 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-29 20:52   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-30  2:46     ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-02  0:19       ` Christoph Lameter

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