From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:19:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BA6649.7050103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121201201030.GA2704@gmail.com>
On 12/01/2012 03:10 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem, which will help
> in solving a page-migration scalability problem. (Addressed in
> a separate patch.)
>
> The conversion is simple and straightforward: in every case
> where we mutex_lock()ed we'll now down_write().
>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-30 19:58 [PATCH 00/10] Latest numa/core release, v18 Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 01/10] sched: Add "task flipping" support Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 02/10] sched: Move the NUMA placement logic to a worklet Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 03/10] numa, mempolicy: Improve CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING=y OOM behavior Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm, numa: Turn 4K pte NUMA faults into effective hugepage ones Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 05/10] sched: Introduce directed NUMA convergence Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 06/10] sched: Remove statistical NUMA scheduling Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 07/10] sched: Track quality and strength of convergence Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 08/10] sched: Converge NUMA migrations Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 09/10] sched: Add convergence strength based adaptive NUMA page fault rate Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 10/10] sched: Refine the 'shared tasks' memory interleaving logic Ingo Molnar
2012-11-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 00/10] Latest numa/core release, v18 Linus Torvalds
2012-12-01 9:49 ` [RFC PATCH] mm/migration: Don't lock anon vmas in rmap_walk_anon() Ingo Molnar
2012-12-01 12:26 ` [RFC PATCH] mm/migration: Remove anon vma locking from try_to_unmap() use Ingo Molnar
2012-12-01 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-01 18:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-12-01 18:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-01 20:10 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem Ingo Molnar
2012-12-01 20:19 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-12-02 15:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-12-03 13:59 ` Mel Gorman
2012-12-01 20:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable Ingo Molnar
2012-12-01 20:33 ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-02 15:12 ` [PATCH 2/2, v2] " Ingo Molnar
2012-12-02 17:53 ` Rik van Riel
2012-12-04 14:42 ` Michel Lespinasse
2012-12-05 2:59 ` Michel Lespinasse
2012-12-03 14:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Mel Gorman
2012-12-04 14:37 ` Michel Lespinasse
2012-12-04 18:17 ` Mel Gorman
2012-12-01 18:55 ` [RFC PATCH] mm/migration: Remove anon vma locking from try_to_unmap() use Rik van Riel
2012-12-01 16:19 ` [RFC PATCH] mm/migration: Don't lock anon vmas in rmap_walk_anon() Rik van Riel
2012-12-01 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-01 18:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-12-03 13:41 ` [PATCH 00/10] Latest numa/core release, v18 Mel Gorman
2012-12-04 17:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-12-03 10:43 ` Mel Gorman
2012-12-03 11:32 ` Mel Gorman
2012-12-04 22:49 ` Mel Gorman
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