Both the file pages and anonymous pages support large folio, high-order
pages except PMD_ORDER will also be allocated frequently which could
increase the zone lock contention, allow high-order pages on pcp lists
could reduce the big zone lock contention, but as commit 44042b449872
("mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists")
pointed, it may not win in all the scenes, add a new control sysfs to
enable or disable specified high-order pages stored on PCP lists, the order
(PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, PMD_ORDER) won't be stored on PCP list by default.
With perf lock tools, the lock contention from will-it-scale page_fault1
(with 90 tasks run 10s, hugepage-2048KB never, hugepage-64K always) show
below(only care about zone spinlock and pcp spinlock),
Without patches,
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
713 4.64 ms 74.37 us 6.51 us spinlock __alloc_pages+0x23c
With patches,
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
2 25.66 us 16.31 us 12.83 us spinlock rmqueue_pcplist+0x2b0
Similar results on shell8 from unixbench,
Without patches,
4942 901.09 ms 1.31 ms 182.33 us spinlock __alloc_pages+0x23c
1556 298.76 ms 1.23 ms 192.01 us spinlock rmqueue_pcplist+0x2b0
991 182.73 ms 879.80 us 184.39 us spinlock rmqueue_pcplist+0x2b0
With patches,
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
988 187.63 ms 855.18 us 189.91 us spinlock rmqueue_pcplist+0x2b0
505 88.99 ms 793.27 us 176.21 us spinlock rmqueue_pcplist+0x2b0
The Benchmarks Score shows a little improvoment(0.28%) from shell8, but the
zone lock from __alloc_pages() disappeared.
Kefeng Wang (3):
mm: prepare more high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists
mm: add control to allow specified high-order pages stored on PCP list
mm: pcp: show each order page count
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 11 ++++
include/linux/gfp.h | 1 +
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 1 +
include/linux/mmzone.h | 10 ++-
include/linux/vmstat.h | 19 ++++++
mm/Kconfig.debug | 8 +++
mm/huge_memory.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/page_alloc.c | 30 +++++++--
mm/vmstat.c | 16 +++++
9 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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