linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] asynchronous page fault.

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Message-ID: <1262468733.2173.251.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:45:33 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"minchan.kim@...il.com" <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] asynchronous page fault.

On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 10:51 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> Speculative page fault v3.
> 
> This version is much simpler than old versions and doesn't use mm_accessor
> but use RCU. This is based on linux-2.6.33-rc2.
> 
> This patch is just my toy but shows...
>  - Once RB-tree is RCU-aware and no-lock in readside, we can avoid mmap_sem
>    in page fault. 
> So, what we need is not mm_accessor, but RCU-aware RB-tree, I think.
> 
> But yes, I may miss something critical ;)
> 
> After patch, statistics perf show is following. Test progam is attached.

One concern I have with this, not that it can't be addressed but we'll
have to be extra careful, is that the mmap_sem in the page fault path
tend to protect more than just the VMA tree.

One example on powerpc is the slice map used to keep track of page
sizes. I would also need some time to convince myself that I don't have
some bits of the MMU hash code that doesn't assume that holding the
mmap_sem for writing prevents a PTE from being changed from !present to
present.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were more around fancy users of
->fault(), things like spufs, the DRM, etc...

Cheers,
Ben.
 

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