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[192.55.52.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id wv6si46048454pab.263.2016.08.30.10.28.36 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:28:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Huang, Ying" Subject: [PATCH -v2] mm: Don't use radix tree writeback tags for pages in swap cache Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:28:09 -0700 Message-Id: <1472578089-5560-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: tim.c.chen@intel.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, andi.kleen@intel.com, aaron.lu@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Huang Ying , Hugh Dickins , Shaohua Li , Minchan Kim , Rik van Riel , Mel Gorman , Tejun Heo , Wu Fengguang From: Huang Ying File pages use a set of radix tree tags (DIRTY, TOWRITE, WRITEBACK, etc.) to accelerate finding the pages with a specific tag in the radix tree during inode writeback. But for anonymous pages in the swap cache, there is no inode writeback. So there is no need to find the pages with some writeback tags in the radix tree. It is not necessary to touch radix tree writeback tags for pages in the swap cache. Per Rik van Riel's suggestion, a new flag AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS is introduced for address spaces which don't need to update the writeback tags. The flag is set for swap caches. It may be used for DAX file systems, etc. With this patch, the swap out bandwidth improved 22.3% (from ~1.2GB/s to ~ 1.48GBps) in the vm-scalability swap-w-seq test case with 8 processes. The test is done on a Xeon E5 v3 system. The swap device used is a RAM simulated PMEM (persistent memory) device. The improvement comes from the reduced contention on the swap cache radix tree lock. To test sequential swapping out, the test case uses 8 processes, which sequentially allocate and write to the anonymous pages until RAM and part of the swap device is used up. Details of comparison is as follow, base base+patch ---------------- -------------------------- %stddev %change %stddev \ | \ 2506952 A+- 2% +28.1% 3212076 A+- 7% vm-scalability.throughput 1207402 A+- 7% +22.3% 1476578 A+- 6% vmstat.swap.so 10.86 A+- 12% -23.4% 8.31 A+- 16% perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irq.__add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap.shrink_page_list 10.82 A+- 13% -33.1% 7.24 A+- 14% perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__remove_mapping.shrink_page_list.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_zone_memcg 10.36 A+- 11% -100.0% 0.00 A+- -1% perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__test_set_page_writeback.bdev_write_page.__swap_writepage.swap_writepage 10.52 A+- 12% -100.0% 0.00 A+- -1% perf-profile.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.test_clear_page_writeback.end_page_writeback.page_endio.pmem_rw_page Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" --- include/linux/pagemap.h | 12 ++++++++++++ mm/page-writeback.c | 4 ++-- mm/swap_state.c | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h index 66a1260..2f5a65dd 100644 --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h +++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ enum mapping_flags { AS_MM_ALL_LOCKS = __GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 2, /* under mm_take_all_locks() */ AS_UNEVICTABLE = __GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 3, /* e.g., ramdisk, SHM_LOCK */ AS_EXITING = __GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 4, /* final truncate in progress */ + /* writeback related tags are not used */ + AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS = __GFP_BITS_SHIFT + 5, }; static inline void mapping_set_error(struct address_space *mapping, int error) @@ -64,6 +66,16 @@ static inline int mapping_exiting(struct address_space *mapping) return test_bit(AS_EXITING, &mapping->flags); } +static inline void mapping_set_no_writeback_tags(struct address_space *mapping) +{ + set_bit(AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS, &mapping->flags); +} + +static inline int mapping_use_writeback_tags(struct address_space *mapping) +{ + return !test_bit(AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS, &mapping->flags); +} + static inline gfp_t mapping_gfp_mask(struct address_space * mapping) { return (__force gfp_t)mapping->flags & __GFP_BITS_MASK; diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 82e7252..67b7c8b 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2728,7 +2728,7 @@ int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page) int ret; lock_page_memcg(page); - if (mapping) { + if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) { struct inode *inode = mapping->host; struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode); unsigned long flags; @@ -2771,7 +2771,7 @@ int __test_set_page_writeback(struct page *page, bool keep_write) int ret; lock_page_memcg(page); - if (mapping) { + if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) { struct inode *inode = mapping->host; struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode); unsigned long flags; diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c index c8310a3..268b819 100644 --- a/mm/swap_state.c +++ b/mm/swap_state.c @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ struct address_space swapper_spaces[MAX_SWAPFILES] = { .page_tree = RADIX_TREE_INIT(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOWARN), .i_mmap_writable = ATOMIC_INIT(0), .a_ops = &swap_aops, + /* swap cache doesn't use writeback related tags */ + .flags = 1 << AS_NO_WRITEBACK_TAGS, } }; -- 2.8.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. 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