From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Reduce mmap_sem hold times during file backed page faults
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:07:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA5CF17.1090807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285909484-30958-1-git-send-email-walken@google.com>
On 10/01/2010 01:04 AM, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> Linus, I would appreciate your comments on this since you shot down the
> previous proposal. I hope you'll find this approach is sane, but I would
> be interested to hear if you have specific objections.
>
> mmap_sem is very coarse grained (per process) and has long read-hold times
> (disk latencies); this breaks down rapidly for workloads that use both
> read and write mmap_sem acquires. This short patch series tries to reduce
> mmap_sem hold times when faulting in file backed VMAs.
The changes make sense to me, but it would be good to know
what kind of benefits you have seen with these patches.
Especially performance numbers :)
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-01 5:04 Michel Lespinasse
2010-10-01 5:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] Unique path for locking page in filemap_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2010-10-01 5:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] Release mmap_sem when page fault blocks on disk transfer Michel Lespinasse
2010-10-01 14:06 ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-01 15:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-01 23:06 ` Michel Lespinasse
2010-10-02 0:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-01 12:07 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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