On Mon, 2023-07-24 at 04:09 +0900, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote: > Hello folks, > > This series is motivated by kernel test bot report [1] on Jay's patch > that modifies slab order. While the patch was not merged and not in > the > final form, I think it was a good lesson that changing slab order has > more > impacts on performance than we expected. > > While inspecting the report, I found some potential points to improve > SLUB. [2] It's _potential_ because it shows no improvements on > hackbench. > but I believe more realistic workloads would benefit from this. Due > to > lack of resources and lack of my understanding of *realistic* > workloads, > I am asking you to help evaluating this together. Hi Hyeonggon, I tried hackbench test on Powerpc machine with 16 cpus but got ~32% of Regression with patch. Results as +-------+----+---------+------------+------------+ | | | Normal | With Patch | | +-------+----+---------+------------+------------+ | Amean | 1 | 1.3700 | 2.0353 | ( -32.69%) | | Amean | 4 | 5.1663 | 7.6563 | (- 32.52%) | | Amean | 7 | 8.9180 | 13.3353 | ( -33.13%) | | Amean | 12 | 15.4290 | 23.0757 | ( -33.14%) | | Amean | 21 | 27.3333 | 40.7823 | ( -32.98%) | | Amean | 30 | 38.7677 | 58.5300 | ( -33.76%) | | Amean | 48 | 62.2987 | 92.9850 | ( -33.00%) | | Amean | 64 | 82.8993 | 123.4717 | ( -32.86%) | +-------+----+---------+------------+------------+ Thanks Jay Patel > > It only consists of two patches. Patch #1 addresses inaccuracy in > SLUB's heuristic, which can negatively affect workloads' performance > when large folios are not available from buddy. > > Patch #2 changes SLUB's behavior when there are no slabs available on > the > local node's partial slab list, increasing NUMA locality when there > are > available memory (without reclamation) on the local node from buddy. > > This is early state, but I think it's a good enough to start > discussion. > Any feedbacks and ideas are welcome. Thank you in advance! > > Hyeonggon > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202307172140.3b34825a-oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx > [1] > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAB=+i9S6Ykp90+4N1kCE=hiTJTE4wzJDi8k5pBjjO_3sf0aeqg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [2] > > Hyeonggon Yoo (2): > Revert "mm, slub: change percpu partial accounting from objects to > pages" > mm/slub: prefer NUMA locality over slight memory saving on NUMA > machines > > include/linux/slub_def.h | 2 -- > mm/slab.h | 6 ++++ > mm/slub.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- > ---- > 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) >
