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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2010-03-05 13:41:40 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-06 11:26:24 -0800
commit34e55232e59f7b19050267a05ff1226e5cd122a5 (patch)
tree6b94e776e87d2a2fe1ceca7c5606901575323900 /kernel
parentd559db086ff5be9bcc259e5aa50bf3d881eaf1d1 (diff)
mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter
Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path. This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter. RSS value will be counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at events. Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault. Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls. rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows [before] 4.5 cache-miss/faults [after] 4.0 cache-miss/faults Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 45ed043b8bf5..10d3c5d5ae44 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -952,7 +952,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
preempt_count());
acct_update_integrals(tsk);
-
+ /* sync mm's RSS info before statistics gathering */
+ sync_mm_rss(tsk, tsk->mm);
group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live);
if (group_dead) {
hrtimer_cancel(&tsk->signal->real_timer);