When spawning and killing threads in separate processes in parallel the
primary bottleneck on the stock kernel is pidmap_lock, largely because
of a back-to-back acquire in the common case. This aspect is fixed with
the patch.
Performance improvement varies between reboots. When benchmarking with
20 processes creating and killing threads in a loop, the unpatched
baseline hovers around 465k ops/s, while patched is anything between
~510k ops/s and ~560k depending on false-sharing (which I only minimally
sanitized). So this is at least 10% if you are unlucky.
The change also facilitated some cosmetic fixes.
It has an unintentional side effect of no longer issuing spurious
idr_preload() around idr_replace().
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251203092851.287617-3-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Mateusz Guzik
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