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authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>2010-10-26 14:21:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-26 16:52:09 -0700
commitd065bd810b6deb67d4897a14bfe21f8eb526ba99 (patch)
treef58c59075732ec4ccba336278c9bdc7ff61bef94 /drivers/ide/Makefile
parentb522c94da5d9cbc73f708be5e530ebc3bbd4a031 (diff)
mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer
This change reduces mmap_sem hold times that are caused by waiting for disk transfers when accessing file mapped VMAs. It introduces the VM_FAULT_ALLOW_RETRY flag, which indicates that the call site wants mmap_sem to be released if blocking on a pending disk transfer. In that case, filemap_fault() returns the VM_FAULT_RETRY status bit and do_page_fault() will then re-acquire mmap_sem and retry the page fault. It is expected that the retry will hit the same page which will now be cached, and thus it will complete with a low mmap_sem hold time. Tests: - microbenchmark: thread A mmaps a large file and does random read accesses to the mmaped area - achieves about 55 iterations/s. Thread B does mmap/munmap in a loop at a separate location - achieves 55 iterations/s before, 15000 iterations/s after. - We are seeing related effects in some applications in house, which show significant performance regressions when running without this change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning & crash] Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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