On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 02:55:18PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 01-03-18 14:28:44, Aaron Lu wrote: > > When freeing a batch of pages from Per-CPU-Pages(PCP) back to buddy, > > the zone->lock is held and then pages are chosen from PCP's migratetype > > list. While there is actually no need to do this 'choose part' under > > lock since it's PCP pages, the only CPU that can touch them is us and > > irq is also disabled. > > > > Moving this part outside could reduce lock held time and improve > > performance. Test with will-it-scale/page_fault1 full load: > > > > kernel Broadwell(2S) Skylake(2S) Broadwell(4S) Skylake(4S) > > v4.16-rc2+ 9034215 7971818 13667135 15677465 > > this patch 9536374 +5.6% 8314710 +4.3% 14070408 +3.0% 16675866 +6.4% > > > > What the test does is: starts $nr_cpu processes and each will repeatedly > > do the following for 5 minutes: > > 1 mmap 128M anonymouse space; > > 2 write access to that space; > > 3 munmap. > > The score is the aggregated iteration. > > Iteration count I assume. Correct. > I am still quite surprised that this would have such a large impact. Most likely due to the cachelines for these page structures are warmed up outside of zone->lock. -- 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>
