[PATCH v9 07/12] sparc64: optimized struct page zeroing

From: Pavel Tatashin
Date: Wed Sep 20 2017 - 16:21:30 EST


Add an optimized mm_zero_struct_page(), so struct page's are zeroed without
calling memset(). We do eight to ten regular stores based on the size of
struct page. Compiler optimizes out the conditions of switch() statement.

SPARC-M6 with 15T of memory, single thread performance:

BASE FIX OPTIMIZED_FIX
bootmem_init 28.440467985s 2.305674818s 2.305161615s
free_area_init_nodes 202.845901673s 225.343084508s 172.556506560s
--------------------------------------------
Total 231.286369658s 227.648759326s 174.861668175s

BASE: current linux
FIX: This patch series without "optimized struct page zeroing"
OPTIMIZED_FIX: This patch series including the current patch.

bootmem_init() is where memory for struct pages is zeroed during
allocation. Note, about two seconds in this function is a fixed time: it
does not increase as memory is increased.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
index 4fefe3762083..8ed478abc630 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
@@ -230,6 +230,36 @@ extern unsigned long _PAGE_ALL_SZ_BITS;
extern struct page *mem_map_zero;
#define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) (mem_map_zero)

+/* This macro must be updated when the size of struct page grows above 80
+ * or reduces below 64.
+ * The idea that compiler optimizes out switch() statement, and only
+ * leaves clrx instructions
+ */
+#define mm_zero_struct_page(pp) do { \
+ unsigned long *_pp = (void *)(pp); \
+ \
+ /* Check that struct page is either 64, 72, or 80 bytes */ \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) & 7); \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) < 64); \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) > 80); \
+ \
+ switch (sizeof(struct page)) { \
+ case 80: \
+ _pp[9] = 0; /* fallthrough */ \
+ case 72: \
+ _pp[8] = 0; /* fallthrough */ \
+ default: \
+ _pp[7] = 0; \
+ _pp[6] = 0; \
+ _pp[5] = 0; \
+ _pp[4] = 0; \
+ _pp[3] = 0; \
+ _pp[2] = 0; \
+ _pp[1] = 0; \
+ _pp[0] = 0; \
+ } \
+} while (0)
+
/* PFNs are real physical page numbers. However, mem_map only begins to record
* per-page information starting at pfn_base. This is to handle systems where
* the first physical page in the machine is at some huge physical address,
--
2.14.1