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Commit 72210662 authored by Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)'s avatar Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm: vmalloc: offload free_vmap_area_lock lock



Concurrent access to a global vmap space is a bottle-neck.  We can
simulate a high contention by running a vmalloc test suite.

To address it, introduce an effective vmap node logic.  Each node behaves
as independent entity.  When a node is accessed it serves a request
directly(if possible) from its pool.

This model has a size based pool for requests, i.e.  pools are serialized
and populated based on object size and real demand.  A maximum object size
that pool can handle is set to 256 pages.

This technique reduces a pressure on the global vmap lock.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240102184633.748113-8-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab@nec.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sony.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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