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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:43:08 +0200
From:      "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pmap and mtx scalability problem
Message-ID:  <CAHM0Q_Pso4iFXt5afBSxxK2kywm=dpm_2W29EUosJtc0XDkR_g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120424203658.GR32749@zxy.spb.ru>
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No. I developed a patch from Jeffr that pushed the vm_page_lock array
down in to the machine dependent code, replacing most of the uses of
the single vm_page_queue_lock. However, alc doesn't like the design
and has not proposed an alternative.

-Kip

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> wrote=
:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 09:27:30PM +0200, K. Macy wrote:
>
>> Known problem. There is an open disagreement about how to improve the
>> granularity of locking in pmap.
>
> split locking to process-specific information and global information?
> use lock-free lists (i see TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL in pmap_enter)?
>
> sorry for stupidity, if any.



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