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Per-VMA locking allows us to lock a struct vm_area_struct without taking the process-wide mmap lock in read mode. Consider a process workload where the mmap lock is taken constantly in write mode. In this scenario, all zerocopy receives are periodically blocked during that period of time - though in principle, the memory ranges being used by TCP are not touched by the operations that need the mmap write lock. This results in performance degradation. Now consider another workload where the mmap lock is never taken in write mode, but there are many TCP connections using receive zerocopy that are concurrently receiving. These connections all take the mmap lock in read mode, but this does induce a lot of contention and atomic ops for this process-wide lock. This results in additional CPU overhead caused by contending on the cache line for this lock. However, with per-vma locking, both of these problems can be avoided. As a test, I ran an RPC-style request/response workload with 4KB payloads and receive zerocopy enabled, with 100 simultaneous TCP connections. I measured perf cycles within the find_tcp_vma/mmap_read_lock/mmap_read_unlock codepath, with and without per-vma locking enabled. When using process-wide mmap semaphore read locking, about 1% of measured perf cycles were within this path. With per-VMA locking, this value dropped to about 0.45%. Signed-off-by: Arjun Roy <arjunroy@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.