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Message-ID: <20130319050503.GA8858@lge.com> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:05:03 +0900 From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com> To: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] ARM: mm: disable kmap_high_get() for SMP On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:35:51PM +0900, JoonSoo Kim wrote: > 2013/3/7 Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>: > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > > > >> Hello, Nicolas. > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 05:36:12PM +0800, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >> > On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > >> > > >> > > With SMP and enabling kmap_high_get(), it makes users of kmap_atomic() > >> > > sequential ordered, because kmap_high_get() use global kmap_lock(). > >> > > It is not welcome situation, so turn off this optimization for SMP. > >> > > >> > I'm not sure I understand the problem. > >> > > >> > The lock taken by kmap_high_get() is released right away before that > >> > function returns and therefore this is not actually serializing > >> > anything. > >> > >> Yes, you understand what I want to say correctly. > >> Sorry for bad explanation. > >> > >> Following is reasons why I send this patch with RFC tag. > >> > >> If we have more cpus, performance degration is possible although > >> it is very short time to holding the lock in kmap_high_get(). > >> > >> And kmap has maximum 512 entries(512 * 4K = 2M) and some mobile devices > >> has 2G memory(highmem 1G>), so probability for finding matched entry > >> is approximately < 1/512. This probability can be more decreasing > >> for device which have more memory. So I think that waste time to find > >> matched entry is more than saved time. > >> > >> Above is my humble opinion, so please let me know what I am missing. > > > > Please look at the kmap_high_get() code again. It performs no > > searching at all. What it does is: > > If page is not highmem, it may be already filtered in kmap_atomic(). > So we only consider highmem page. > > For highmem page, it perform searching. > In kmap_high_get(), page_address() is called. > In page_address(), it hash PA and iterate a list for this hashed value. > > And another advantage of disabling ARCH_NEEDS_KMAP_HIGH_GET is > that kmap(), kunmap() works without irq disabled. > > Thanks. Hello, Nicolas. For just confirm, you don't agree with this, right? Thanks. > > > - lock the kmap array against concurrent changes > > > > - if the given page is not highmem, unlock and return NULL > > > > - otherwise increment that page reference count, unlock, and return the > > mapped address for that page. > > > > There is almost zero cost to this function, independently of the number > > of kmap entries, whereas it does save much bigger costs elsewhere when > > it is successful. > > > > > > Nicolas > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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