Re: [Patch 3/3] prepopulate/cache cleared pages

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Nick Piggin wrote:

> Here is a forward port of my scalability improvement, untested.
> 
> Unfortunately I didn't include absolute performance results, but the
> changelog indicates that there was some noticable delta between the
> rwsem implementations (and that's what I vaguely remember).
> 
> Note: this was with volanomark, which can be quite variable at the
> best of times IIRC.
> 
> Note2: this was on a 16-way NUMAQ, which had the interconnect
> performance of a string between two cans compared to a modern x86-64
> of smaller size, so it may be harder to notice an improvement.
> 

Oh, I remember one performance caveat of this code on preempt kernels:
at very high loads, (ie. lots of tasks being woken in the up path),
the wakeup code would end up doing a lot of context switches to and
from the tasks it is waking up.

This could be easily solved by disabling preempt (and would be still
better in terms of interrupt latency and lock hold times), however I
never got around to implementing that.

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