| Message ID | 1526555193-7242-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Not Applicable |
| Headers | show |
| Series | Speculative page faults | expand |
Hi, On 05/17/2018 04:06 AM, Laurent Dufour wrote: > This configuration variable will be used to build the code needed to > handle speculative page fault. > > By default it is turned off, and activated depending on architecture > support, ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, SMP and MMU. > > The architecture support is needed since the speculative page fault handler > is called from the architecture's page faulting code, and some code has to > be added there to handle the speculative handler. > > The dependency on ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL is required because vm_normal_page() > does processing that is not compatible with the speculative handling in the > case ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL is not set. > > Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > --- > mm/Kconfig | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig > index 1d0888c5b97a..a38796276113 100644 > --- a/mm/Kconfig > +++ b/mm/Kconfig > @@ -761,3 +761,25 @@ config GUP_BENCHMARK > > config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL > bool > + > +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT > + def_bool n > + > +config SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT > + bool "Speculative page faults" > + default y > + depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT > + depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL && MMU && SMP > + help > + Try to handle user space page faults without holding the mmap_sem. > + > + This should allow better concurrency for massively threaded process processes > + since the page fault handler will not wait for other threads memory thread's > + layout change to be done, assuming that this change is done in another > + part of the process's memory space. This type of page fault is named > + speculative page fault. > + > + If the speculative page fault fails because of a concurrency is because a concurrency is > + detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet > + allocating, it is failing its processing and a classic page fault allocated, the speculative page fault fails and a classic page fault > + is then tried. Also, all of the help text (below the "help" line) should be indented by 1 tab + 2 spaces (in coding-style.rst).
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:36:00AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > + If the speculative page fault fails because of a concurrency is > > because a concurrency is While one can use concurrency as a noun, it sounds archaic to me. I'd rather: If the speculative page fault fails because a concurrent modification is detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet > > + detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet > > + allocating, it is failing its processing and a classic page fault > > allocated, the speculative page fault fails and a classic page fault > > > + is then tried.
On 05/17/2018 10:19 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:36:00AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> + If the speculative page fault fails because of a concurrency is >> >> because a concurrency is > > While one can use concurrency as a noun, it sounds archaic to me. I'd > rather: > > If the speculative page fault fails because a concurrent modification > is detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet Yeah, OK. >>> + detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet >>> + allocating, it is failing its processing and a classic page fault >> >> allocated, the speculative page fault fails and a classic page fault >> >>> + is then tried.
On 17/05/2018 19:19, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:36:00AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> + If the speculative page fault fails because of a concurrency is >> >> because a concurrency is > > While one can use concurrency as a noun, it sounds archaic to me. I'd > rather: > > If the speculative page fault fails because a concurrent modification > is detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet Thanks Matthew, I'll do that. > >>> + detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet >>> + allocating, it is failing its processing and a classic page fault >> >> allocated, the speculative page fault fails and a classic page fault >> >>> + is then tried. >
On 17/05/2018 18:36, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Hi, > > On 05/17/2018 04:06 AM, Laurent Dufour wrote: >> This configuration variable will be used to build the code needed to >> handle speculative page fault. >> >> By default it is turned off, and activated depending on architecture >> support, ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, SMP and MMU. >> >> The architecture support is needed since the speculative page fault handler >> is called from the architecture's page faulting code, and some code has to >> be added there to handle the speculative handler. >> >> The dependency on ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL is required because vm_normal_page() >> does processing that is not compatible with the speculative handling in the >> case ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL is not set. >> >> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> >> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> >> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> --- >> mm/Kconfig | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig >> index 1d0888c5b97a..a38796276113 100644 >> --- a/mm/Kconfig >> +++ b/mm/Kconfig >> @@ -761,3 +761,25 @@ config GUP_BENCHMARK >> >> config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL >> bool >> + >> +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT >> + def_bool n >> + >> +config SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT >> + bool "Speculative page faults" >> + default y >> + depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT >> + depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL && MMU && SMP >> + help >> + Try to handle user space page faults without holding the mmap_sem. >> + >> + This should allow better concurrency for massively threaded process > > processes > >> + since the page fault handler will not wait for other threads memory > > thread's > >> + layout change to be done, assuming that this change is done in another >> + part of the process's memory space. This type of page fault is named >> + speculative page fault. >> + >> + If the speculative page fault fails because of a concurrency is > > because a concurrency is > >> + detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet >> + allocating, it is failing its processing and a classic page fault > > allocated, the speculative page fault fails and a classic page fault > >> + is then tried. > > > Also, all of the help text (below the "help" line) should be indented by > 1 tab + 2 spaces (in coding-style.rst). Thanks, Randy for reviewing my miserable English grammar. I'll fix that and the indentation.
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 1d0888c5b97a..a38796276113 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -761,3 +761,25 @@ config GUP_BENCHMARK config ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL bool + +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT + def_bool n + +config SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT + bool "Speculative page faults" + default y + depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT + depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL && MMU && SMP + help + Try to handle user space page faults without holding the mmap_sem. + + This should allow better concurrency for massively threaded process + since the page fault handler will not wait for other threads memory + layout change to be done, assuming that this change is done in another + part of the process's memory space. This type of page fault is named + speculative page fault. + + If the speculative page fault fails because of a concurrency is + detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet + allocating, it is failing its processing and a classic page fault + is then tried.
This configuration variable will be used to build the code needed to handle speculative page fault. By default it is turned off, and activated depending on architecture support, ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, SMP and MMU. The architecture support is needed since the speculative page fault handler is called from the architecture's page faulting code, and some code has to be added there to handle the speculative handler. The dependency on ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL is required because vm_normal_page() does processing that is not compatible with the speculative handling in the case ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL is not set. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- mm/Kconfig | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)