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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>2014-10-09 15:28:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-09 22:25:59 -0400
commitaabfb57296e3dd9761e47736ec69305c95461d7d (patch)
tree379e66feb872f9f42b44b3245e52cb16ab3194bb /mm/swap.c
parent01c2965f0723a25209d5cf4cac630ed0f6d0edf4 (diff)
downloadlinux-aabfb57296e3dd9761e47736ec69305c95461d7d.tar.bz2
mm: memcontrol: do not kill uncharge batching in free_pages_and_swap_cache
free_pages_and_swap_cache limits release_pages to PAGEVEC_SIZE chunks. This is not a big deal for the normal release path but it completely kills memcg uncharge batching which reduces res_counter spin_lock contention. Dave has noticed this with his page fault scalability test case on a large machine when the lock was basically dominating on all CPUs: 80.18% 80.18% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock | --- _raw_spin_lock | |--66.59%-- res_counter_uncharge_until | res_counter_uncharge | uncharge_batch | uncharge_list | mem_cgroup_uncharge_list | release_pages | free_pages_and_swap_cache | tlb_flush_mmu_free | | | |--90.12%-- unmap_single_vma | | unmap_vmas | | unmap_region | | do_munmap | | vm_munmap | | sys_munmap | | system_call_fastpath | | __GI___munmap | | | --9.88%-- tlb_flush_mmu | tlb_finish_mmu | unmap_region | do_munmap | vm_munmap | sys_munmap | system_call_fastpath | __GI___munmap In his case the load was running in the root memcg and that part has been handled by reverting 05b843012335 ("mm: memcontrol: use root_mem_cgroup res_counter") because this is a clear regression, but the problem remains inside dedicated memcgs. There is no reason to limit release_pages to PAGEVEC_SIZE batches other than lru_lock held times. This logic, however, can be moved inside the function. mem_cgroup_uncharge_list and free_hot_cold_page_list do not hold any lock for the whole pages_to_free list so it is safe to call them in a single run. The release_pages() code was previously breaking the lru_lock each PAGEVEC_SIZE pages (ie, 14 pages). However this code has no usage of pagevecs so switch to breaking the lock at least every SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX (32) pages. This means that the lock acquisition frequency is approximately halved and the max hold times are approximately doubled. The now unneeded batching is removed from free_pages_and_swap_cache(). Also update the grossly out-of-date release_pages documentation. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/swap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/swap.c30
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 6b2dc3897cd5..8a12b33936b4 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -887,18 +887,14 @@ void lru_add_drain_all(void)
mutex_unlock(&lock);
}
-/*
- * Batched page_cache_release(). Decrement the reference count on all the
- * passed pages. If it fell to zero then remove the page from the LRU and
- * free it.
- *
- * Avoid taking zone->lru_lock if possible, but if it is taken, retain it
- * for the remainder of the operation.
+/**
+ * release_pages - batched page_cache_release()
+ * @pages: array of pages to release
+ * @nr: number of pages
+ * @cold: whether the pages are cache cold
*
- * The locking in this function is against shrink_inactive_list(): we recheck
- * the page count inside the lock to see whether shrink_inactive_list()
- * grabbed the page via the LRU. If it did, give up: shrink_inactive_list()
- * will free it.
+ * Decrement the reference count on all the pages in @pages. If it
+ * fell to zero, remove the page from the LRU and free it.
*/
void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
{
@@ -907,6 +903,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
struct zone *zone = NULL;
struct lruvec *lruvec;
unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);
+ unsigned int uninitialized_var(lock_batch);
for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
struct page *page = pages[i];
@@ -920,6 +917,16 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
continue;
}
+ /*
+ * Make sure the IRQ-safe lock-holding time does not get
+ * excessive with a continuous string of pages from the
+ * same zone. The lock is held only if zone != NULL.
+ */
+ if (zone && ++lock_batch == SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
+ zone = NULL;
+ }
+
if (!put_page_testzero(page))
continue;
@@ -930,6 +937,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr, bool cold)
if (zone)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock,
flags);
+ lock_batch = 0;
zone = pagezone;
spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lru_lock, flags);
}