linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/16] mm: use augmented rbtrees for finding unmapped areas

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Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:11:37 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	William Irwin <wli@...omorphy.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] mm: use augmented rbtrees for finding unmapped
 areas

On Mon,  5 Nov 2012 14:46:57 -0800
Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com> wrote:

> Earlier this year, Rik proposed using augmented rbtrees to optimize
> our search for a suitable unmapped area during mmap(). This prompted
> my work on improving the augmented rbtree code. Rik doesn't seem to
> have time to follow up on his idea at this time, so I'm sending this
> series to revive the idea.

Well, the key word here is "optimize".  Some quantitative testing
results would be nice, please!

People do occasionally see nasty meltdowns in the get_unmapped_area()
vicinity.  There was one case 2-3 years ago which was just ghastly, but
I can't find the email (it's on linux-mm somewhere).  This one might be
another case:
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1101.1/00896.html

If you can demonstrate that this patchset fixes some of all of the bad
search complexity scenarios then that's quite a win?

> These changes are against v3.7-rc4. I have not converted all applicable
> architectuers yet, but we don't necessarily need to get them all onboard
> at once - the series is fully bisectable and additional architectures
> can be added later on. I am confident enough in my tests for patches 1-8;
> however the second half of the series basically didn't get tested as
> I don't have access to all the relevant architectures.

Yes, I'll try to get these into -next so that the thousand monkeys at
least give us some compilation coverage testing.  Hopefully the
relevant arch maintainers will find time to perform a runtime test.

> Patch 1 is the validate_mm() fix from Bob Liu (+ fixed-the-fix from me :)

I grabbed this one separately, as a post-3.6 fix.


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