mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists

The per-cpu page allocator (PCP) only stores order-0 pages.  This means
that all THP and "cheap" high-order allocations including SLUB contends on
the zone->lock.  This patch extends the PCP allocator to store THP and
"cheap" high-order pages.  Note that struct per_cpu_pages increases in
size to 256 bytes (4 cache lines) on x86-64.

Note that this is not necessarily a universal performance win because of
how it is implemented.  High-order pages can cause pcp->high to be
exceeded prematurely for lower-orders so for example, a large number of
THP pages being freed could release order-0 pages from the PCP lists.
Hence, much depends on the allocation/free pattern as observed by a single
CPU to determine if caching helps or hurts a particular workload.

That said, basic performance testing passed.  The following is a netperf
UDP_STREAM test which hits the relevant patches as some of the network
allocations are high-order.

netperf-udp
                                 5.13.0-rc2             5.13.0-rc2
                           mm-pcpburst-v3r4   mm-pcphighorder-v1r7
Hmean     send-64         261.46 (   0.00%)      266.30 *   1.85%*
Hmean     send-128        516.35 (   0.00%)      536.78 *   3.96%*
Hmean     send-256       1014.13 (   0.00%)     1034.63 *   2.02%*
Hmean     send-1024      3907.65 (   0.00%)     4046.11 *   3.54%*
Hmean     send-2048      7492.93 (   0.00%)     7754.85 *   3.50%*
Hmean     send-3312     11410.04 (   0.00%)    11772.32 *   3.18%*
Hmean     send-4096     13521.95 (   0.00%)    13912.34 *   2.89%*
Hmean     send-8192     21660.50 (   0.00%)    22730.72 *   4.94%*
Hmean     send-16384    31902.32 (   0.00%)    32637.50 *   2.30%*

Functionally, a patch like this is necessary to make bulk allocation of
high-order pages work with similar performance to order-0 bulk
allocations.  The bulk allocator is not updated in this series as it would
have to be determined by bulk allocation users how they want to track the
order of pages allocated with the bulk allocator.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210611135753.GC30378@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 578588d4afc9..265a32e1ff74 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -333,6 +333,24 @@ enum zone_watermarks {
 	NR_WMARK
 };
 
+/*
+ * One per migratetype for each PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER plus one additional
+ * for pageblock size for THP if configured.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+#define NR_PCP_THP 1
+#else
+#define NR_PCP_THP 0
+#endif
+#define NR_PCP_LISTS (MIGRATE_PCPTYPES * (PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER + 1 + NR_PCP_THP))
+
+/*
+ * Shift to encode migratetype and order in the same integer, with order
+ * in the least significant bits.
+ */
+#define NR_PCP_ORDER_WIDTH 8
+#define NR_PCP_ORDER_MASK ((1<<NR_PCP_ORDER_WIDTH) - 1)
+
 #define min_wmark_pages(z) (z->_watermark[WMARK_MIN] + z->watermark_boost)
 #define low_wmark_pages(z) (z->_watermark[WMARK_LOW] + z->watermark_boost)
 #define high_wmark_pages(z) (z->_watermark[WMARK_HIGH] + z->watermark_boost)
@@ -349,7 +367,7 @@ struct per_cpu_pages {
 #endif
 
 	/* Lists of pages, one per migrate type stored on the pcp-lists */
-	struct list_head lists[MIGRATE_PCPTYPES];
+	struct list_head lists[NR_PCP_LISTS];
 };
 
 struct per_cpu_zonestat {