On 01/02/2018 00:04, daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > A common case in release_pages is for the 'pages' list to be in roughly > the same order as they are in their LRU. With LRU batch locking, when a > sentinel page is removed, an adjacent non-sentinel page must be promoted > to a sentinel page to follow the locking scheme. So we can get behavior > where nearly every page in the 'pages' array is treated as a sentinel > page, hurting the scalability of this approach. > > To address this, split up release_pages into non-sentinel and sentinel > passes so that the non-sentinel pages can be locked with an LRU batch > lock before the sentinel pages are removed. > > For the prototype, just use a bitmap and a temporary outer loop to > implement this. > > Performance numbers from a single microbenchmark at this point in the > series are included in the next patch. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > mm/swap.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c > index fae766e035a4..a302224293ad 100644 > --- a/mm/swap.c > +++ b/mm/swap.c > @@ -731,6 +731,7 @@ void lru_add_drain_all(void) > put_online_cpus(); > } > > +#define LRU_BITMAP_SIZE 512 > /** > * release_pages - batched put_page() > * @pages: array of pages to release > @@ -742,16 +743,32 @@ void lru_add_drain_all(void) > */ > void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr) > { > - int i; > + int h, i; > LIST_HEAD(pages_to_free); > struct pglist_data *locked_pgdat = NULL; > spinlock_t *locked_lru_batch = NULL; > struct lruvec *lruvec; > unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags); > + DECLARE_BITMAP(lru_bitmap, LRU_BITMAP_SIZE); > + > + VM_BUG_ON(nr > LRU_BITMAP_SIZE); While running your series rebased on v4.15-mmotm-2018-01-31-16-51, I'm hitting this VM_BUG sometimes on a ppc64 system where page size is set to 64K. In my case, nr=537 while LRU_BITMAP_SIZE is 512. Here is the stack trace displayed : kernel BUG at /local/laurent/work/glinux/mm/swap.c:728! Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] LE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries Modules linked in: pseries_rng rng_core vmx_crypto virtio_balloon ip_tables x_tables autofs4 virtio_net virtio_blk virtio_pci virtio_ring virtio CPU: 41 PID: 3485 Comm: cc1 Not tainted 4.15.0-mm1-lru+ #2 NIP: c0000000002b0784 LR: c0000000002b0780 CTR: c0000000007bab20 REGS: c0000005e126b740 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (4.15.0-mm1-lru+) MSR: 8000000000029033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28002422 XER: 20000000 CFAR: c000000000192ae4 SOFTE: 0 GPR00: c0000000002b0780 c0000005e126b9c0 c00000000103c100 000000000000001c GPR04: c0000005ffc4ce38 c0000005ffc63d00 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 GPR08: 0000000000000007 c000000000ec3a4c 00000005fed90000 0000000000000000 GPR12: 0000000000002200 c00000000fd8cd00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR24: c0000005e11ab980 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000005e126ba60 GPR28: 0000000000000219 c0000005e126bc40 0000000000000000 c0000005ec5f0000 NIP [c0000000002b0784] release_pages+0x864/0x880 LR [c0000000002b0780] release_pages+0x860/0x880 Call Trace: [c0000005e126b9c0] [c0000000002b0780] release_pages+0x860/0x880 (unreliable) [c0000005e126bb30] [c00000000031da3c] free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x11c/0x150 [c0000005e126bb80] [c0000000002ef5f8] tlb_flush_mmu_free+0x68/0xa0 [c0000005e126bbc0] [c0000000002f1568] arch_tlb_finish_mmu+0x58/0xf0 [c0000005e126bbf0] [c0000000002f19d4] tlb_finish_mmu+0x34/0x60 [c0000005e126bc20] [c0000000003031e8] exit_mmap+0xd8/0x1d0 [c0000005e126bce0] [c0000000000f3188] mmput+0x78/0x160 [c0000005e126bd10] [c0000000000ff568] do_exit+0x348/0xd00 [c0000005e126bdd0] [c0000000000fffd8] do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0 [c0000005e126be10] [c00000000010006c] SyS_exit_group+0x1c/0x20 [c0000005e126be30] [c00000000000ba60] system_call+0x58/0x6c Instruction dump: 3949ffff 4bfffdc8 3c62ffce 38a00200 f9c100e0 f9e100e8 386345e8 fa0100f0 fa2100f8 fa410100 4bee2329 60000000 <0fe00000> 3b400001 4bfff868 7d5d5378 ---[ end trace 55b1651f9d92f14f ]--- > > + bitmap_zero(lru_bitmap, nr); > + > + for (h = 0; h < 2; h++) { > for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) { > struct page *page = pages[i]; > > + if (h == 0) { > + if (PageLRU(page) && page->lru_sentinel) { > + bitmap_set(lru_bitmap, i, 1); > + continue; > + } > + } else { > + if (!test_bit(i, lru_bitmap)) > + continue; > + } > + > if (is_huge_zero_page(page)) > continue; > > @@ -798,6 +815,7 @@ void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr) > > list_add(&page->lru, &pages_to_free); > } > + } > if (locked_lru_batch) { > lru_batch_unlock(NULL, &locked_lru_batch, &locked_pgdat, > &flags); > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>