From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>, Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>,
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/page_alloc: call check_new_pages() while zone spinlock is not held
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 09:15:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220307091541.GD15701@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220304170215.1868106-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 09:02:15AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> For high order pages not using pcp, rmqueue() is currently calling
> the costly check_new_pages() while zone spinlock is held,
> and hard irqs masked.
>
> This is not needed, we can release the spinlock sooner to reduce
> zone spinlock contention.
>
> Note that after this patch, we call __mod_zone_freepage_state()
> before deciding to leak the page because it is in bad state.
>
> v2: We need to keep interrupts disabled to call __mod_zone_freepage_state()
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Ok, this is only more expensive in the event pages on the free list have
been corrupted whch is already very unlikely so thanks!
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-07 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-04 17:02 Eric Dumazet
2022-03-04 19:19 ` Shakeel Butt
2022-03-06 22:15 ` David Rientjes
2022-03-07 9:15 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2022-03-08 23:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-03-09 12:32 ` Mel Gorman
2022-03-09 17:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-03-12 15:43 ` [mm/page_alloc] 8212a964ee: vm-scalability.throughput 30.5% improvement kernel test robot
2022-03-12 18:58 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-03-12 23:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-03-13 9:28 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-03-13 21:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-03-13 21:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-03-13 21:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-03-13 21:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2022-03-14 9:09 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-03-07 9:24 ` [PATCH v2] mm/page_alloc: call check_new_pages() while zone spinlock is not held Vlastimil Babka
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