The patch titled
Subject: mm, page_alloc: use new PageAnonHead helper in the free page fast path
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-page_alloc-use-new-pageanonhead-helper-in-the-free-page-fast-path.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-use-new-pageanonhead-helper-in-the-free-page-fast-path.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_alloc-use-new-pageanonhead-helper-in-the-free-page-fast-path.patch
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, page_alloc: use new PageAnonHead helper in the free page fast path
The PageAnon check always checks for compound_head but this is a
relatively expensive check if the caller already knows the page is a head
page. This patch creates a helper and uses it in the page free path which
only operates on head pages.
With this patch and "Only check PageCompound for high-order pages", the
performance difference on a page allocator microbenchmark is;
4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
vanilla nocompound-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 425.00 ( 0.00%) 417.00 ( 1.88%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 313.00 ( 0.00%) 308.00 ( 1.60%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 257.00 ( 0.00%) 253.00 ( 1.56%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 224.00 ( 0.00%) 221.00 ( 1.34%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 208.00 ( 0.00%) 205.00 ( 1.44%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 199.00 ( 0.00%) 199.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 195.00 ( 0.00%) 193.00 ( 1.03%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 192.00 ( 0.00%) 191.00 ( 0.52%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 204.00 ( 0.00%) 200.00 ( 1.96%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 213.00 ( 0.00%) 212.00 ( 0.47%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 219.00 ( 0.00%) 219.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 225.00 ( 0.00%) 225.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 230.00 ( 0.00%) 231.00 ( -0.43%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 235.00 ( 0.00%) 234.00 ( 0.43%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 235.00 ( 0.00%) 234.00 ( 0.43%)
Min free-odr0-1 215.00 ( 0.00%) 191.00 ( 11.16%)
Min free-odr0-2 152.00 ( 0.00%) 136.00 ( 10.53%)
Min free-odr0-4 119.00 ( 0.00%) 107.00 ( 10.08%)
Min free-odr0-8 106.00 ( 0.00%) 96.00 ( 9.43%)
Min free-odr0-16 97.00 ( 0.00%) 87.00 ( 10.31%)
Min free-odr0-32 91.00 ( 0.00%) 83.00 ( 8.79%)
Min free-odr0-64 89.00 ( 0.00%) 81.00 ( 8.99%)
Min free-odr0-128 88.00 ( 0.00%) 80.00 ( 9.09%)
Min free-odr0-256 106.00 ( 0.00%) 95.00 ( 10.38%)
Min free-odr0-512 116.00 ( 0.00%) 111.00 ( 4.31%)
Min free-odr0-1024 125.00 ( 0.00%) 118.00 ( 5.60%)
Min free-odr0-2048 133.00 ( 0.00%) 126.00 ( 5.26%)
Min free-odr0-4096 136.00 ( 0.00%) 130.00 ( 4.41%)
Min free-odr0-8192 138.00 ( 0.00%) 130.00 ( 5.80%)
Min free-odr0-16384 137.00 ( 0.00%) 130.00 ( 5.11%)
There is a sizable boost to the free allocator performance. While there
is an apparent boost on the allocation side, it's likely a co-incidence or
due to the patches slightly reducing cache footprint.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/page-flags.h | 7 ++++++-
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/page-flags.h~mm-page_alloc-use-new-pageanonhead-helper-in-the-free-page-fast-path include/linux/page-flags.h
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h~mm-page_alloc-use-new-pageanonhead-helper-in-the-free-page-fast-path
+++ a/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -377,10 +377,15 @@ PAGEFLAG(Idle, idle, PF_ANY)
#define PAGE_MAPPING_KSM 2
#define PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS (PAGE_MAPPING_ANON | PAGE_MAPPING_KSM)
+static __always_inline int PageAnonHead(struct page *page)
+{
+ return ((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON) != 0;
+}
+
static __always_inline int PageAnon(struct page *page)
{
page = compound_head(page);
- return ((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON) != 0;
+ return PageAnonHead(page);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_KSM
diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-use-new-pageanonhead-helper-in-the-free-page-fast-path mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-use-new-pageanonhead-helper-in-the-free-page-fast-path
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ static bool free_pages_prepare(struct pa
bad += free_pages_check(page + i);
}
}
- if (PageAnon(page))
+ if (PageAnonHead(page))
page->mapping = NULL;
bad += free_pages_check(page);
if (bad)
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-page_alloc-only-check-pagecompound-for-high-order-pages.patch
mm-page_alloc-use-new-pageanonhead-helper-in-the-free-page-fast-path.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-branches-in-zone_statistics.patch
mm-page_alloc-inline-zone_statistics.patch
mm-page_alloc-inline-the-fast-path-of-the-zonelist-iterator.patch
mm-page_alloc-use-__dec_zone_state-for-order-0-page-allocation.patch
mm-page_alloc-avoid-unnecessary-zone-lookups-during-pageblock-operations.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-alloc_flags-to-unsigned.patch
mm-page_alloc-convert-nr_fair_skipped-to-bool.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unnecessary-local-variable-in-get_page_from_freelist.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unnecessary-initialisation-in-get_page_from_freelist.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-redundant-check-for-empty-zonelist.patch
mm-page_alloc-simplify-last-cpupid-reset.patch
mm-page_alloc-move-might_sleep_if-check-to-the-allocator-slowpath.patch
mm-page_alloc-move-__gfp_hardwall-modifications-out-of-the-fastpath.patch
mm-page_alloc-check-once-if-a-zone-has-isolated-pageblocks.patch
mm-page_alloc-shorten-the-page-allocator-fast-path.patch
mm-page_alloc-reduce-cost-of-fair-zone-allocation-policy-retry.patch
mm-page_alloc-shortcut-watermark-checks-for-order-0-pages.patch
mm-page_alloc-avoid-looking-up-the-first-zone-in-a-zonelist-twice.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-field-from-alloc_context.patch
mm-page_alloc-check-multiple-page-fields-with-a-single-branch.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unnecessary-variable-from-free_pcppages_bulk.patch
mm-page_alloc-inline-pageblock-lookup-in-page-free-fast-paths.patch
mm-page_alloc-defer-debugging-checks-of-freed-pages-until-a-pcp-drain.patch
mm-page_alloc-defer-debugging-checks-of-pages-allocated-from-the-pcp.patch
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