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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2016-12-25 13:00:30 +1000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-25 11:54:48 -0800
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mm: add PageWaiters indicating tasks are waiting for a page bit
Add a new page flag, PageWaiters, to indicate the page waitqueue has tasks waiting. This can be tested rather than testing waitqueue_active which requires another cacheline load. This bit is always set when the page has tasks on page_waitqueue(page), and is set and cleared under the waitqueue lock. It may be set when there are no tasks on the waitqueue, which will cause a harmless extra wakeup check that will clears the bit. The generic bit-waitqueue infrastructure is no longer used for pages. Instead, waitqueues are used directly with a custom key type. The generic code was not flexible enough to have PageWaiters manipulation under the waitqueue lock (which simplifies concurrency). This improves the performance of page lock intensive microbenchmarks by 2-3%. Putting two bits in the same word opens the opportunity to remove the memory barrier between clearing the lock bit and testing the waiters bit, after some work on the arch primitives (e.g., ensuring memory operand widths match and cover both bits). Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init')
-rw-r--r--init/main.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index c81c9fa21bc7..b0c9d6facef9 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -647,9 +647,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
security_init();
dbg_late_init();
vfs_caches_init();
+ pagecache_init();
signals_init();
- /* rootfs populating might need page-writeback */
- page_writeback_init();
proc_root_init();
nsfs_init();
cpuset_init();