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Aneesh Kumar K.V committed 675d995297d
powerpc/book3s64: Enable split pmd ptlock. Testing with a threaded version of mmap_bench which allocate 1G chunks and with large number of threads we find: without patch 32.72% mmap_bench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] do_raw_spin_lock | ---do_raw_spin_lock | --32.68%--0 | |--15.82%--pte_fragment_alloc | | | --15.79%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page | __handle_mm_fault | handle_mm_fault | __do_page_fault | handle_page_fault | test_mmap | test_mmap | start_thread | __clone | |--14.95%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page | __handle_mm_fault | handle_mm_fault | __do_page_fault | handle_page_fault | test_mmap | test_mmap | start_thread | __clone | with patch 12.89% mmap_bench [kernel.vmlinux] [k] do_raw_spin_lock | ---do_raw_spin_lock | --12.83%--0 | |--3.21%--pagevec_lru_move_fn | __lru_cache_add | | | --2.74%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page | __handle_mm_fault | handle_mm_fault | __do_page_fault | handle_page_fault | test_mmap | test_mmap | start_thread | __clone | |--3.11%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page | __handle_mm_fault | handle_mm_fault | __do_page_fault | handle_page_fault | test_mmap | test_mmap | start_thread | __clone ..... | --0.55%--pte_fragment_alloc | --0.55%--do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page __handle_mm_fault handle_mm_fault __do_page_fault handle_page_fault test_mmap test_mmap start_thread __clone Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>