From: Olof Johansson Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 15:58:45 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] PPC64: Remove hot busy-wait loop in __hash_page X-Git-Tag: v2.6.12-rc4~136^2~151 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d03853d566fb32c6bb8cab4bf2ecf53e692f001c;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] PPC64: Remove hot busy-wait loop in __hash_page It turns out that our current __hash_page code will do a very hot busy-wait loop waiting on _PAGE_BUSY to be cleared. It even does ldarx/stdcx in the loop, which will bounce reservations around like crazy if there's more than one CPU spinning on the same PTE (or even another PTE in the same reservation granule). The end result is that each fault takes longer when there's contention, which in turn increases the chance of another thread hitting the same fault and also piling up. Not pretty. There's two options here: 1. Do an out-of-line busy loop a'la spinlocks with just loads (no reserves) 2. Just bail and refault if needed. (2) makes sense here: If the PTE is busy, chances are it's in flux anyway and the other code path making a change might just be ready to hash it. This fixes a stampede seen on a large-ish system where a multithreaded HPC app faults in the same text pages on several cpus at the same time. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/ppc64/mm/hash_low.S b/arch/ppc64/mm/hash_low.S index 8c0156a370..c23d46956d 100644 --- a/arch/ppc64/mm/hash_low.S +++ b/arch/ppc64/mm/hash_low.S @@ -85,7 +85,10 @@ _GLOBAL(__hash_page) bne- htab_wrong_access /* Check if PTE is busy */ andi. r0,r31,_PAGE_BUSY - bne- 1b + /* If so, just bail out and refault if needed. Someone else + * is changing this PTE anyway and might hash it. + */ + bne- bail_ok /* Prepare new PTE value (turn access RW into DIRTY, then * add BUSY,HASHPTE and ACCESSED) */ @@ -215,6 +218,10 @@ _GLOBAL(htab_call_hpte_remove) /* Try all again */ b htab_insert_pte +bail_ok: + li r3,0 + b bail + htab_pte_insert_ok: /* Insert slot number & secondary bit in PTE */ rldimi r30,r3,12,63-15