tree c941aaf7295f8efecaf42aa86112649b9b6f23a9
parent e27dedd84c119e2f7af54fcde3293be5ad812103
author Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> 1146506525 +0200
committer Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> 1146506525 +0200

[PATCH] pipe: enable atomic copying of pipe data to/from user space

The pipe ->map() method uses kmap() to virtually map the pages, which
is both slow and has known scalability issues on SMP. This patch enables
atomic copying of pipe pages, by pre-faulting data and using kmap_atomic()
instead.

lmbench bw_pipe and lat_pipe measurements agree this is a Good Thing. Here
are results from that on a UP machine with highmem (1.5GiB of RAM), running
first a UP kernel, SMP kernel, and SMP kernel patched.

Vanilla-UP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1622.28 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1610.59 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1608.30 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 7.3275 microseconds
Pipe latency: 7.2995 microseconds
Pipe latency: 7.3097 microseconds

Vanilla-SMP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1382.19 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1317.27 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1355.61 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 9.6402 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.6696 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.6153 microseconds

Patched-SMP:
Pipe bandwidth: 1578.70 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1579.95 MB/sec
Pipe bandwidth: 1578.63 MB/sec
Pipe latency: 9.1654 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.2266 microseconds
Pipe latency: 9.1527 microseconds

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>