linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm: increase scalability of global memory commitment accounting

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Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2016 12:51:03 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm: increase scalability of global memory
 commitment accounting

On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:24:16 -0800 Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 13:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > 
> > If a process is unmapping 4MB then it's pretty crazy for us to be
> > hitting the percpu_counter 32 separate times for that single operation.
> > 
> > Is there some way in which we can batch up the modifications within the
> > caller and update the counter less frequently?  Perhaps even in a
> > single hit?
> 
> I think the problem is the batch size is too small and we overflow
> the local counter into the global counter for 4M allocations.

That's one way of looking at the issue.  The other way (which I point
out above) is that we're calling vm_[un]_acct_memory too frequently
when mapping/unmapping 4M segments.

Exactly which mmap.c callsite is causing this issue?