This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm: pagemap: avoid unnecessary overhead when tracepoints are deactivated
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-pagemap-avoid-unnecessary-overhead-when-tracepoints-are-deactivated.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 24b7e5819ad5cbef2b7c7376510862aa8319d240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:07:11 -0700
Subject: mm: pagemap: avoid unnecessary overhead when tracepoints are deactivated
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
commit 24b7e5819ad5cbef2b7c7376510862aa8319d240 upstream.
This was formerly the series "Improve sequential read throughput" which
noted some major differences in performance of tiobench since 3.0.
While there are a number of factors, two that dominated were the
introduction of the fair zone allocation policy and changes to CFQ.
The behaviour of fair zone allocation policy makes more sense than
tiobench as a benchmark and CFQ defaults were not changed due to
insufficient benchmarking.
This series is what's left. It's one functional fix to the fair zone
allocation policy when used on NUMA machines and a reduction of overhead
in general. tiobench was used for the comparison despite its flaws as
an IO benchmark as in this case we are primarily interested in the
overhead of page allocator and page reclaim activity.
On UMA, it makes little difference to overhead
3.16.0-rc3 3.16.0-rc3
vanilla lowercost-v5
User 383.61 386.77
System 403.83 401.74
Elapsed 5411.50 5413.11
On a 4-socket NUMA machine it's a bit more noticable
3.16.0-rc3 3.16.0-rc3
vanilla lowercost-v5
User 746.94 802.00
System 65336.22 40852.33
Elapsed 27553.52 27368.46
This patch (of 6):
The LRU insertion and activate tracepoints take PFN as a parameter
forcing the overhead to the caller. Move the overhead to the tracepoint
fast-assign method to ensure the cost is only incurred when the
tracepoint is active.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/pagemap.h | 16 +++++++---------
mm/swap.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
--- a/include/trace/events/pagemap.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/pagemap.h
@@ -28,12 +28,10 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_lru_insertion,
TP_PROTO(
struct page *page,
- unsigned long pfn,
- int lru,
- unsigned long flags
+ int lru
),
- TP_ARGS(page, pfn, lru, flags),
+ TP_ARGS(page, lru),
TP_STRUCT__entry(
__field(struct page *, page )
@@ -44,9 +42,9 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_lru_insertion,
TP_fast_assign(
__entry->page = page;
- __entry->pfn = pfn;
+ __entry->pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
__entry->lru = lru;
- __entry->flags = flags;
+ __entry->flags = trace_pagemap_flags(page);
),
/* Flag format is based on page-types.c formatting for pagemap */
@@ -64,9 +62,9 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_lru_insertion,
TRACE_EVENT(mm_lru_activate,
- TP_PROTO(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn),
+ TP_PROTO(struct page *page),
- TP_ARGS(page, pfn),
+ TP_ARGS(page),
TP_STRUCT__entry(
__field(struct page *, page )
@@ -75,7 +73,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_lru_activate,
TP_fast_assign(
__entry->page = page;
- __entry->pfn = pfn;
+ __entry->pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
),
/* Flag format is based on page-types.c formatting for pagemap */
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ static void __activate_page(struct page
SetPageActive(page);
lru += LRU_ACTIVE;
add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
- trace_mm_lru_activate(page, page_to_pfn(page));
+ trace_mm_lru_activate(page);
__count_vm_event(PGACTIVATE);
update_page_reclaim_stat(lruvec, file, 1);
@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct
SetPageLRU(page);
add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
update_page_reclaim_stat(lruvec, file, active);
- trace_mm_lru_insertion(page, page_to_pfn(page), lru, trace_pagemap_flags(page));
+ trace_mm_lru_insertion(page, lru);
}
/*
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-use-jump-labels-to-avoid-checking-number_of_cpusets.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-do-not-treat-a-zone-that-cannot-be-used-for-dirty-pages-as-full.patch
queue-3.14/mm-non-atomically-mark-page-accessed-during-page-cache-allocation-where-possible.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-convert-hot-cold-parameter-and-immediate-callers-to-bool.patch
queue-3.14/memcg-vmscan-fix-forced-scan-of-anonymous-pages.patch
queue-3.14/mm-thp-only-collapse-hugepages-to-nodes-with-affinity-for-zone_reclaim_mode.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-only-check-the-zone-id-check-if-pages-are-buddies.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-only-check-the-alloc-flags-and-gfp_mask-for-dirty-once.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-do-not-update-zlc-unless-the-zlc-is-active.patch
queue-3.14/mm-swap.c-clean-up-lru_cache_add-functions.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-take-the-alloc_no_watermark-check-out-of-the-fast-path.patch
queue-3.14/fs-buffer-do-not-use-unnecessary-atomic-operations-when-discarding-buffers.patch
queue-3.14/mm-do-not-use-atomic-operations-when-releasing-pages.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-reduce-number-of-times-page_to_pfn-is-called.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-use-unsigned-int-for-order-in-more-places.patch
queue-3.14/mm-avoid-unnecessary-atomic-operations-during-end_page_writeback.patch
queue-3.14/vmalloc-use-rcu-list-iterator-to-reduce-vmap_area_lock-contention.patch
queue-3.14/mm-shmem-avoid-atomic-operation-during-shmem_getpage_gfp.patch
queue-3.14/mm-pagemap-avoid-unnecessary-overhead-when-tracepoints-are-deactivated.patch
queue-3.14/shmem-fix-init_page_accessed-use-to-stop-pagelru-bug.patch
queue-3.14/mm-memory.c-use-entry-access_once-pte-in-handle_pte_fault.patch
queue-3.14/mm-make-copy_pte_range-static-again.patch
queue-3.14/mm-rearrange-zone-fields-into-read-only-page-alloc-statistics-and-page-reclaim-lines.patch
queue-3.14/mm-do-not-use-unnecessary-atomic-operations-when-adding-pages-to-the-lru.patch
queue-3.14/include-linux-jump_label.h-expose-the-reference-count.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-calculate-classzone_idx-once-from-the.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-lookup-pageblock-migratetype-with-irqs-enabled-during-free.patch
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