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Mateusz Guzik 3577dbb192 mm: batch unlink_file_vma calls in free_pgd_range
Execs of dynamically linked binaries at 20-ish cores are bottlenecked on
the i_mmap_rwsem semaphore, while the biggest singular contributor is
free_pgd_range inducing the lock acquire back-to-back for all consecutive
mappings of a given file.

Tracing the count of said acquires while building the kernel shows:
[1, 2)     799579 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[2, 3)          0 |                                                    |
[3, 4)       3009 |                                                    |
[4, 5)       3009 |                                                    |
[5, 6)     326442 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@                               |

So in particular there were 326442 opportunities to coalesce 5 acquires
into 1.

Doing so increases execs per second by 4% (~50k to ~52k) when running
the benchmark linked below.

The lock remains the main bottleneck, I have not looked at other spots
yet.

Bench can be found here:
http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/doexec.c

$ cc -O2 -o shared-doexec doexec.c
$ ./shared-doexec $(nproc)

Note this particular test makes sure binaries are separate, but the
loader is shared.

Stats collected on the patched kernel (+ "noinline") with:
bpftrace -e 'kprobe:unlink_file_vma_batch_process
{ @ = lhist(((struct unlink_vma_file_batch *)arg0)->count, 0, 8, 1); }'

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240521234321.359501-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-03 19:29:58 -07:00
arch mm: implement update_mmu_tlb() using update_mmu_tlb_range() 2024-07-03 19:29:57 -07:00
block block: unmap and free user mapped integrity via submitter 2024-06-12 11:00:50 -06:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto This push fixes a bug in the new ecc P521 code as well as a buggy 2024-05-20 08:47:54 -07:00
Documentation mm/vmscan: update stale references to shrink_page_list 2024-07-03 19:29:52 -07:00
drivers ata fixes for 6.10-rc6 2024-06-30 14:32:24 -07:00
fs nfs: drop usage of folio_file_pos 2024-07-03 19:29:55 -07:00
include mm/memory-failure: improve memory failure action_result messages 2024-07-03 19:29:57 -07:00
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kernel TTY/Serial/Console fixes for 6.10-rc6 2024-06-30 08:57:43 -07:00
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security lsm/stable-6.10 PR 20240617 2024-06-17 18:35:12 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.10 2024-06-26 22:02:55 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS IOMMU Fixes for Linux v6.10-rc5 2024-06-28 09:18:01 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.10-rc6 2024-06-30 14:40:44 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.