Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- vm bugfixes

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Nick Piggin wrote:
Nick Piggin wrote:

Christoph Hellwig wrote:


Is that every fork/exec or just under certain cicumstances?
A 5% regression on every fork/exec is not acceptable.



Well after patch2, G5 fork is 3% and exec is 1%, I'd say the P4
numbers will be improved as well with that patch. Then if we have
specific lock/unlock bitops, I hope it should reduce that further.


OK, with the races and missing barriers fixed from the previous patch,
plus the attached one added (+patch3), numbers are better again (I'm not
sure if I have the ppc barriers correct though).

These ops could also be put to use in bit spinlocks, buffer lock, and
probably a few other places too.

2.6.21   1.49-1.51   164.6-170.8   741.8-760.3
+patch   1.71-1.73   175.2-180.8   780.5-794.2
+patch2  1.61-1.63   169.8-175.0   748.6-757.0
+patch3  1.54-1.57   165.6-170.9   748.5-757.5

So fault performance goes to under 5%, fork is in the noise, exec is
still up 1%, but maybe that's noise or cache effects again.

OK, with my new lock/unlock_page, dd if=large (bigger than RAM) sparse
file of=/dev/null with an experimentally optimal block size (32K) goes
from 626MB/s to 683MB/s on 2 CPU G5 booted with maxcpus=1.

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