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kernel/fork: group allocation/free of per-cpu counters for mm struct
A trivial execve scalability test which tries to be very friendly
(statically linked binaries, all separate) is predominantly bottlenecked
by back-to-back per-cpu counter allocations which serialize on global
locks.
Ease the pain by allocating and freeing them in one go.
Bench can be found here:
http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/doexec.c
$ cc -static -O2 -o static-doexec doexec.c
$ ./static-doexec $(nproc)
Even at a very modest scale of 26 cores (ops/s):
before: 133543.63
after: 186061.81 (+39%)
While with the patch these allocations remain a significant problem,
the primary bottleneck shifts to page release handling.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[Dennis: reflowed 1 line]
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <[email protected]>
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