Mel Gorman 4b23a68f95 mm/page_alloc: protect PCP lists with a spinlock
Currently the PCP lists are protected by using local_lock_irqsave to
prevent migration and IRQ reentrancy but this is inconvenient.  Remote
draining of the lists is impossible and a workqueue is required and every
task allocation/free must disable then enable interrupts which is
expensive.

As preparation for dealing with both of those problems, protect the
lists with a spinlock.  The IRQ-unsafe version of the lock is used
because IRQs are already disabled by local_lock_irqsave.  spin_trylock
is used in combination with local_lock_irqsave() but later will be
replaced with a spin_trylock_irqsave when the local_lock is removed.

The per_cpu_pages still fits within the same number of cache lines after
this patch relative to before the series.

struct per_cpu_pages {
        spinlock_t                 lock;                 /*     0     4 */
        int                        count;                /*     4     4 */
        int                        high;                 /*     8     4 */
        int                        batch;                /*    12     4 */
        short int                  free_factor;          /*    16     2 */
        short int                  expire;               /*    18     2 */

        /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

        struct list_head           lists[13];            /*    24   208 */

        /* size: 256, cachelines: 4, members: 7 */
        /* sum members: 228, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
        /* padding: 24 */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(64)));

There is overhead in the fast path due to acquiring the spinlock even
though the spinlock is per-cpu and uncontended in the common case.  Page
Fault Test (PFT) running on a 1-socket reported the following results on a
1 socket machine.

                                     5.19.0-rc3               5.19.0-rc3
                                        vanilla      mm-pcpspinirq-v5r16
Hmean     faults/sec-1   869275.7381 (   0.00%)   874597.5167 *   0.61%*
Hmean     faults/sec-3  2370266.6681 (   0.00%)  2379802.0362 *   0.40%*
Hmean     faults/sec-5  2701099.7019 (   0.00%)  2664889.7003 *  -1.34%*
Hmean     faults/sec-7  3517170.9157 (   0.00%)  3491122.8242 *  -0.74%*
Hmean     faults/sec-8  3965729.6187 (   0.00%)  3939727.0243 *  -0.66%*

There is a small hit in the number of faults per second but given that the
results are more stable, it's borderline noise.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing local_unlock_irqrestore() on contention path]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624125423.6126-6-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-17 17:14:35 -07:00
2022-06-26 14:22:10 -07:00

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