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I'm running a shmem pagefault test case (see attached file) under a 64 CPU
system.  Profile shows shmem_inode_info->lock is heavily contented and
100% CPUs time are trying to get the lock.  In the pagefault (no swap)
case, shmem_getpage gets the lock twice, the last one is avoidable if we
prealloc a page so we could reduce one time of locking.  This is what
below patch does.

The result of the test case:
2.6.35-rc3: ~20s
2.6.35-rc3 + patch: ~12s
so this is 40% improvement.

One might argue if we could have better locking for shmem.  But even shmem
is lockless, the pagefault will soon have pagecache lock heavily contented
because shmem must add new page to pagecache.  So before we have better
locking for pagecache, improving shmem locking doesn't have too much
improvement.  I did a similar pagefault test against a ramfs file, the
test result is ~10.5s.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, clean up code layout, elimintate code duplication]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Shaohua Li authored and Linus Torvalds committed Aug 10, 2010
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70 changes: 49 additions & 21 deletions mm/shmem.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -1222,6 +1222,7 @@ static int shmem_getpage(struct inode *inode, unsigned long idx,
struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo;
struct page *filepage = *pagep;
struct page *swappage;
struct page *prealloc_page = NULL;
swp_entry_t *entry;
swp_entry_t swap;
gfp_t gfp;
Expand All @@ -1246,7 +1247,6 @@ static int shmem_getpage(struct inode *inode, unsigned long idx,
filepage = find_lock_page(mapping, idx);
if (filepage && PageUptodate(filepage))
goto done;
error = 0;
gfp = mapping_gfp_mask(mapping);
if (!filepage) {
/*
Expand All @@ -1257,7 +1257,19 @@ static int shmem_getpage(struct inode *inode, unsigned long idx,
if (error)
goto failed;
radix_tree_preload_end();
if (sgp != SGP_READ && !prealloc_page) {
/* We don't care if this fails */
prealloc_page = shmem_alloc_page(gfp, info, idx);
if (prealloc_page) {
if (mem_cgroup_cache_charge(prealloc_page,
current->mm, GFP_KERNEL)) {
page_cache_release(prealloc_page);
prealloc_page = NULL;
}
}
}
}
error = 0;

spin_lock(&info->lock);
shmem_recalc_inode(inode);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1405,28 +1417,38 @@ static int shmem_getpage(struct inode *inode, unsigned long idx,
if (!filepage) {
int ret;

spin_unlock(&info->lock);
filepage = shmem_alloc_page(gfp, info, idx);
if (!filepage) {
shmem_unacct_blocks(info->flags, 1);
shmem_free_blocks(inode, 1);
error = -ENOMEM;
goto failed;
}
SetPageSwapBacked(filepage);
if (!prealloc_page) {
spin_unlock(&info->lock);
filepage = shmem_alloc_page(gfp, info, idx);
if (!filepage) {
shmem_unacct_blocks(info->flags, 1);
shmem_free_blocks(inode, 1);
error = -ENOMEM;
goto failed;
}
SetPageSwapBacked(filepage);

/* Precharge page while we can wait, compensate after */
error = mem_cgroup_cache_charge(filepage, current->mm,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (error) {
page_cache_release(filepage);
shmem_unacct_blocks(info->flags, 1);
shmem_free_blocks(inode, 1);
filepage = NULL;
goto failed;
/*
* Precharge page while we can wait, compensate
* after
*/
error = mem_cgroup_cache_charge(filepage,
current->mm, GFP_KERNEL);
if (error) {
page_cache_release(filepage);
shmem_unacct_blocks(info->flags, 1);
shmem_free_blocks(inode, 1);
filepage = NULL;
goto failed;
}

spin_lock(&info->lock);
} else {
filepage = prealloc_page;
prealloc_page = NULL;
SetPageSwapBacked(filepage);
}

spin_lock(&info->lock);
entry = shmem_swp_alloc(info, idx, sgp);
if (IS_ERR(entry))
error = PTR_ERR(entry);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1467,13 +1489,19 @@ static int shmem_getpage(struct inode *inode, unsigned long idx,
}
done:
*pagep = filepage;
return 0;
error = 0;
goto out;

failed:
if (*pagep != filepage) {
unlock_page(filepage);
page_cache_release(filepage);
}
out:
if (prealloc_page) {
mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(prealloc_page);
page_cache_release(prealloc_page);
}
return error;
}

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