When mm switched to matches that of active mm, we don't need to increment and then drop the mm count. Making that conditional reduces contention on that cache line on SMP systems.
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> --- mm/mmu_context.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mmu_context.c b/mm/mmu_context.c index 9989c2f..0777654 100644 --- a/mm/mmu_context.c +++ b/mm/mmu_context.c @@ -27,13 +27,16 @@ void use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm) task_lock(tsk); active_mm = tsk->active_mm; - atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count); + if (active_mm != mm) { + atomic_inc(&mm->mm_count); + tsk->active_mm = mm; + } tsk->mm = mm; - tsk->active_mm = mm; switch_mm(active_mm, mm, tsk); task_unlock(tsk); - mmdrop(active_mm); + if (active_mm != mm) + mmdrop(active_mm); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(use_mm); -- 1.6.2.5 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
