From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] mm/free_pcppages_bulk: do not hold lock when picking pages to free
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 15:15:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180302071533.GA6356@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180301135518.GJ15057@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 02:55:18PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 01-03-18 14:28:44, Aaron Lu wrote:
> > When freeing a batch of pages from Per-CPU-Pages(PCP) back to buddy,
> > the zone->lock is held and then pages are chosen from PCP's migratetype
> > list. While there is actually no need to do this 'choose part' under
> > lock since it's PCP pages, the only CPU that can touch them is us and
> > irq is also disabled.
> >
> > Moving this part outside could reduce lock held time and improve
> > performance. Test with will-it-scale/page_fault1 full load:
> >
> > kernel Broadwell(2S) Skylake(2S) Broadwell(4S) Skylake(4S)
> > v4.16-rc2+ 9034215 7971818 13667135 15677465
> > this patch 9536374 +5.6% 8314710 +4.3% 14070408 +3.0% 16675866 +6.4%
> >
> > What the test does is: starts $nr_cpu processes and each will repeatedly
> > do the following for 5 minutes:
> > 1 mmap 128M anonymouse space;
> > 2 write access to that space;
> > 3 munmap.
> > The score is the aggregated iteration.
>
> Iteration count I assume.
Correct.
> I am still quite surprised that this would have such a large impact.
Most likely due to the cachelines for these page structures are warmed
up outside of zone->lock.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-01 6:28 [PATCH v4 0/3] mm: improve zone->lock scalability Aaron Lu
2018-03-01 6:28 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] mm/free_pcppages_bulk: update pcp->count inside Aaron Lu
2018-03-01 12:11 ` David Rientjes
2018-03-01 13:45 ` Michal Hocko
2018-03-12 13:22 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-13 2:11 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-01 6:28 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] mm/free_pcppages_bulk: do not hold lock when picking pages to free Aaron Lu
2018-03-01 13:55 ` Michal Hocko
2018-03-02 7:15 ` Aaron Lu [this message]
2018-03-02 15:34 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-02 7:31 ` Huang, Ying
2018-03-02 0:01 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-02 8:01 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-02 21:23 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-02 21:25 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-12 14:22 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-13 3:34 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-22 15:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-26 3:03 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-01 6:28 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] mm/free_pcppages_bulk: prefetch buddy while not holding lock Aaron Lu
2018-03-01 14:00 ` Michal Hocko
2018-03-02 8:31 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-02 17:55 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-02 18:00 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-02 18:08 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-05 11:41 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-05 11:48 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-06 7:55 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-06 12:27 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-06 12:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-02 0:09 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-02 8:27 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-09 8:24 ` [PATCH v4 3/3 update] " Aaron Lu
2018-03-09 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-10 14:46 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-12 15:05 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-12 17:32 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-13 3:35 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-13 7:04 ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-20 9:50 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-20 11:31 ` [PATCH v4 3/3 update2] " Aaron Lu
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