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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> | 2022-06-24 13:54:21 +0100 |
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| committer | akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-07-17 17:14:35 -0700 |
| commit | 4b23a68f953628eb4e4b7fe1294ebf93d4b8ceee (patch) | |
| tree | be9df8a008ba6cdd8adeacef7d3f8cbd830913fb /include/linux/mmzone.h | |
| parent | e2a66c21b774a4e8d0079089fafdc30a31414d40 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4b23a68f953628eb4e4b7fe1294ebf93d4b8ceee.tar.bz2 | |
mm/page_alloc: protect PCP lists with a spinlock
Currently the PCP lists are protected by using local_lock_irqsave to
prevent migration and IRQ reentrancy but this is inconvenient. Remote
draining of the lists is impossible and a workqueue is required and every
task allocation/free must disable then enable interrupts which is
expensive.
As preparation for dealing with both of those problems, protect the
lists with a spinlock. The IRQ-unsafe version of the lock is used
because IRQs are already disabled by local_lock_irqsave. spin_trylock
is used in combination with local_lock_irqsave() but later will be
replaced with a spin_trylock_irqsave when the local_lock is removed.
The per_cpu_pages still fits within the same number of cache lines after
this patch relative to before the series.
struct per_cpu_pages {
spinlock_t lock; /* 0 4 */
int count; /* 4 4 */
int high; /* 8 4 */
int batch; /* 12 4 */
short int free_factor; /* 16 2 */
short int expire; /* 18 2 */
/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
struct list_head lists[13]; /* 24 208 */
/* size: 256, cachelines: 4, members: 7 */
/* sum members: 228, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
/* padding: 24 */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(64)));
There is overhead in the fast path due to acquiring the spinlock even
though the spinlock is per-cpu and uncontended in the common case. Page
Fault Test (PFT) running on a 1-socket reported the following results on a
1 socket machine.
5.19.0-rc3 5.19.0-rc3
vanilla mm-pcpspinirq-v5r16
Hmean faults/sec-1 869275.7381 ( 0.00%) 874597.5167 * 0.61%*
Hmean faults/sec-3 2370266.6681 ( 0.00%) 2379802.0362 * 0.40%*
Hmean faults/sec-5 2701099.7019 ( 0.00%) 2664889.7003 * -1.34%*
Hmean faults/sec-7 3517170.9157 ( 0.00%) 3491122.8242 * -0.74%*
Hmean faults/sec-8 3965729.6187 ( 0.00%) 3939727.0243 * -0.66%*
There is a small hit in the number of faults per second but given that the
results are more stable, it's borderline noise.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing local_unlock_irqrestore() on contention path]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624125423.6126-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mmzone.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 041136b5628a..578247a341b2 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ enum zone_watermarks { /* Fields and list protected by pagesets local_lock in page_alloc.c */ struct per_cpu_pages { + spinlock_t lock; /* Protects lists field */ int count; /* number of pages in the list */ int high; /* high watermark, emptying needed */ int batch; /* chunk size for buddy add/remove */ |