The patch titled
Subject: mm: swap: use smp_mb__after_atomic() to order LRU bit set
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-swap-use-smp_mb__after_atomic-to-order-lru-bit-set.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-swap-use-smp_mb__after_atomic-to-order-lru-bit-set.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-swap-use-smp_mb__after_atomic-to-order-lru-bit-set.patch
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From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: swap: use smp_mb__after_atomic() to order LRU bit set
Memory barrier is needed after setting LRU bit, but smp_mb() is too
strong. Some architectures, i.e. x86, imply memory barrier with atomic
operations, so replacing it with smp_mb__after_atomic() sounds better,
which is nop on strong ordered machines, and full memory barriers on
others. With this change the vm-scalability cases would perform better on
x86, I saw total 6% improvement with this patch and previous inline fix.
The test data (lru-file-readtwice throughput) against v5.6-rc4:
mainline w/ inline fix w/ both (adding this)
150MB 154MB 159MB
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1584500541-46817-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 9c4e6b1a7027 ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swap.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/swap.c~mm-swap-use-smp_mb__after_atomic-to-order-lru-bit-set
+++ a/mm/swap.c
@@ -931,7 +931,6 @@ static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
- SetPageLRU(page);
/*
* Page becomes evictable in two ways:
* 1) Within LRU lock [munlock_vma_page() and __munlock_pagevec()].
@@ -958,7 +957,8 @@ static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct
* looking at the same page) and the evictable page will be stranded
* in an unevictable LRU.
*/
- smp_mb();
+ SetPageLRU(page);
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
if (page_evictable(page)) {
lru = page_lru(page);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-swap-make-page_evictable-inline.patch
mm-swap-use-smp_mb__after_atomic-to-order-lru-bit-set.patch
mm-vmpressure-dont-need-call-kfree-if-kstrndup-fails.patch
mm-vmpressure-use-mem_cgroup_is_root-api.patch
mm-vmscan-replace-open-codings-to-numa_no_node.patch
mm-mempolicy-use-vm_bug_on_vma-in-queue_pages_test_walk.patch
mm-migratec-migrate-pg_readahead-flag.patch
