Re: [PATCH v2] mm: page_counter: relayout structure to reduce false sharing

[Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:20 PM Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> wrote:
>
> When checking a memory cgroup related performance regression [1],
> from the perf c2c profiling data, we found high false sharing for
> accessing 'usage' and 'parent'.
>
> On 64 bit system, the 'usage' and 'parent' are close to each other,
> and easy to be in one cacheline (for cacheline size == 64+ B). 'usage'
> is usally written, while 'parent' is usually read as the cgroup's
> hierarchical counting nature.
>
> So move the 'parent' to the end of the structure to make sure they
> are in different cache lines.
>
> Following are some performance data with the patch, against
> v5.11-rc1. [ In the data, A means a platform with 2 sockets 48C/96T,
> B is a platform of 4 sockests 72C/144T, and if a %stddev will be
> shown bigger than 2%, P100/P50 means number of test tasks equals
> to 100%/50% of nr_cpu]
>
> will-it-scale/malloc1
> ---------------------
>            v5.11-rc1                    v5.11-rc1+patch
>
> A-P100       15782 ±  2%      -0.1%      15765 ±  3%  will-it-scale.per_process_ops
> A-P50        21511            +8.9%      23432        will-it-scale.per_process_ops
> B-P100        9155            +2.2%       9357        will-it-scale.per_process_ops
> B-P50        10967            +7.1%      11751 ±  2%  will-it-scale.per_process_ops
>
> will-it-scale/pagefault2
> ------------------------
>            v5.11-rc1                    v5.11-rc1+patch
>
> A-P100       79028            +3.0%      81411        will-it-scale.per_process_ops
> A-P50       183960 ±  2%      +4.4%     192078 ±  2%  will-it-scale.per_process_ops
> B-P100       85966            +9.9%      94467 ±  3%  will-it-scale.per_process_ops
> B-P50       198195            +9.8%     217526        will-it-scale.per_process_ops
>
> fio (4k/1M is block size)
> -------------------------
>            v5.11-rc1                    v5.11-rc1+patch
>
> A-P50-r-4k     16881 ±  2%    +1.2%      17081 ±  2%  fio.read_bw_MBps
> A-P50-w-4k      3931          +4.5%       4111 ±  2%  fio.write_bw_MBps
> A-P50-r-1M     15178          -0.2%      15154        fio.read_bw_MBps
> A-P50-w-1M      3924          +0.1%       3929        fio.write_bw_MBps
>
> [1].https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201102091543.GM31092@shao2-debian/
> Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>