From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Arjan Van De Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] mm, page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch allocated
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:54:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231011125427.dtwr2jerqzehjjxo@techsingularity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230920061856.257597-6-ying.huang@intel.com>
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 02:18:51PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> When a task is allocating a large number of order-0 pages, it may
> acquire the zone->lock multiple times allocating pages in batches.
> This may unnecessarily contend on the zone lock when allocating very
> large number of pages. This patch adapts the size of the batch based
> on the recent pattern to scale the batch size for subsequent
> allocations.
>
> On a 2-socket Intel server with 224 logical CPU, we tested kbuild on
> one socket with `make -j 112`. With the patch, the cycles% of the
> spinlock contention (mostly for zone lock) decreases from 40.5% to
> 37.9% (with PCP size == 361).
>
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-11 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-20 6:18 [PATCH 00/10] mm: PCP high auto-tuning Huang Ying
2023-09-20 6:18 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm, pcp: avoid to drain PCP when process exit Huang Ying
2023-10-11 12:46 ` Mel Gorman
2023-10-11 17:16 ` Andrew Morton
2023-10-12 13:09 ` Mel Gorman
2023-10-12 13:35 ` Huang, Ying
2023-10-12 12:21 ` Huang, Ying
2023-09-20 6:18 ` [PATCH 02/10] cacheinfo: calculate per-CPU data cache size Huang Ying
2023-09-20 9:24 ` Sudeep Holla
2023-09-22 7:56 ` Huang, Ying
2023-10-11 12:20 ` Mel Gorman
2023-10-12 12:08 ` Huang, Ying
2023-10-12 12:52 ` Mel Gorman
2023-10-12 13:12 ` Huang, Ying
2023-10-12 15:22 ` Mel Gorman
2023-10-13 3:06 ` Huang, Ying
2023-10-16 15:43 ` Mel Gorman
2023-09-20 6:18 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm, pcp: reduce lock contention for draining high-order pages Huang Ying
2023-10-11 12:49 ` Mel Gorman
2023-10-12 12:11 ` Huang, Ying
2023-09-20 6:18 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm: restrict the pcp batch scale factor to avoid too long latency Huang Ying
2023-10-11 12:52 ` Mel Gorman
2023-10-12 12:15 ` Huang, Ying
2023-09-20 6:18 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm, page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch allocated Huang Ying
2023-10-11 12:54 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2023-09-20 6:18 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: add framework for PCP high auto-tuning Huang Ying
2023-09-20 6:18 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: tune PCP high automatically Huang Ying
2023-09-20 6:18 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm, pcp: decrease PCP high if free pages < high watermark Huang Ying
2023-10-11 13:08 ` Mel Gorman
2023-10-12 12:19 ` Huang, Ying
2023-09-20 6:18 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm, pcp: avoid to reduce PCP high unnecessarily Huang Ying
2023-10-11 14:09 ` Mel Gorman
2023-10-12 7:48 ` Huang, Ying
2023-10-12 12:49 ` Mel Gorman
2023-10-12 13:19 ` Huang, Ying
2023-09-20 6:18 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm, pcp: reduce detecting time of consecutive high order page freeing Huang Ying
2023-09-20 16:41 ` [PATCH 00/10] mm: PCP high auto-tuning Andrew Morton
2023-09-21 13:32 ` Huang, Ying
2023-09-21 15:46 ` Andrew Morton
2023-09-22 0:33 ` Huang, Ying
2023-10-11 13:05 ` Mel Gorman
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