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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm: increase scalability of global memory commitment accounting
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 16:24:16 -0800 Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 13:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> >
> > If a process is unmapping 4MB then it's pretty crazy for us to be
> > hitting the percpu_counter 32 separate times for that single operation.
> >
> > Is there some way in which we can batch up the modifications within the
> > caller and update the counter less frequently? Perhaps even in a
> > single hit?
>
> I think the problem is the batch size is too small and we overflow
> the local counter into the global counter for 4M allocations.

That's one way of looking at the issue. The other way (which I point
out above) is that we're calling vm_[un]_acct_memory too frequently
when mapping/unmapping 4M segments.

Exactly which mmap.c callsite is causing this issue?

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