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authorYang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>2020-04-01 21:06:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-02 09:35:27 -0700
commit1eb6234e52f0cbb87f59c328687127866d57941a (patch)
tree527ba288d4f24f3cdd5db263de066567c9f60b60 /mm/vmscan.c
parent2406b76fe815dbc7f97a19995b8d80eacc887895 (diff)
mm: swap: make page_evictable() inline
When backporting commit 9c4e6b1a7027 ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs") to our 4.9 kernel, our test bench noticed around 10% down with a couple of vm-scalability's test cases (lru-file-readonce, lru-file-readtwice and lru-file-mmap-read). I didn't see that much down on my VM (32c-64g-2nodes). It might be caused by the test configuration, which is 32c-256g with NUMA disabled and the tests were run in root memcg, so the tests actually stress only one inactive and active lru. It sounds not very usual in mordern production environment. That commit did two major changes: 1. Call page_evictable() 2. Use smp_mb to force the PG_lru set visible It looks they contribute the most overhead. The page_evictable() is a function which does function prologue and epilogue, and that was used by page reclaim path only. However, lru add is a very hot path, so it sounds better to make it inline. However, it calls page_mapping() which is not inlined either, but the disassemble shows it doesn't do push and pop operations and it sounds not very straightforward to inline it. Other than this, it sounds smp_mb() is not necessary for x86 since SetPageLRU is atomic which enforces memory barrier already, replace it with smp_mb__after_atomic() in the following patch. With the two fixes applied, the tests can get back around 5% on that test bench and get back normal on my VM. Since the test bench configuration is not that usual and I also saw around 6% up on the latest upstream, so it sounds good enough IMHO. The below is test data (lru-file-readtwice throughput) against the v5.6-rc4: mainline w/ inline fix 150MB 154MB With this patch the throughput gets 2.67% up. The data with using smp_mb__after_atomic() is showed in the following patch. Shakeel Butt did the below test: On a real machine with limiting the 'dd' on a single node and reading 100 GiB sparse file (less than a single node). Just ran a single instance to not cause the lru lock contention. The cmdline used is "dd if=file-100GiB of=/dev/null bs=4k". Ran the cmd 10 times with drop_caches in between and measured the time it took. Without patch: 56.64143 +- 0.672 sec With patches: 56.10 +- 0.21 sec [akpm@linux-foundation.org: move page_evictable() to internal.h] Fixes: 9c4e6b1a7027 ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs") Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1584500541-46817-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c23
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diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 876370565455..855c39595987 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4277,29 +4277,6 @@ int node_reclaim(struct pglist_data *pgdat, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
}
#endif
-/*
- * page_evictable - test whether a page is evictable
- * @page: the page to test
- *
- * Test whether page is evictable--i.e., should be placed on active/inactive
- * lists vs unevictable list.
- *
- * Reasons page might not be evictable:
- * (1) page's mapping marked unevictable
- * (2) page is part of an mlocked VMA
- *
- */
-int page_evictable(struct page *page)
-{
- int ret;
-
- /* Prevent address_space of inode and swap cache from being freed */
- rcu_read_lock();
- ret = !mapping_unevictable(page_mapping(page)) && !PageMlocked(page);
- rcu_read_unlock();
- return ret;
-}
-
/**
* check_move_unevictable_pages - check pages for evictability and move to
* appropriate zone lru list