Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mm: support parallel free of memory

[Aaron Lu]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 02:38:44PM -0500, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 04:59:59PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> > v2 changes: Nothing major, only minor ones.
> >  - rebased on top of v4.11-rc2-mmotm-2017-03-14-15-41;
> >  - use list_add_tail instead of list_add to add worker to tlb's worker
> >    list so that when doing flush, the first queued worker gets flushed
> >    first(based on the comsumption that the first queued worker has a
> >    better chance of finishing its job than those later queued workers);
> >  - use bool instead of int for variable free_batch_page in function
> >    tlb_flush_mmu_free_batches;
> >  - style change according to ./scripts/checkpatch;
> >  - reword some of the changelogs to make it more readable.
> > 
> > v1 is here:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/24/245
> 
> I tested v1 on a Haswell system with 64 sockets/1024 cores/2048 threads
> and 8TB of RAM, with a 1TB malloc.  The average free() time for a 1TB
> malloc on a vanilla kernel was 41.69s, the patched kernel averaged
> 21.56s for the same test.

Thanks a lot for the test result.

> 
> I am testing v2 now and will report back with results in the next day or
> so.

Testing plain v2 shouldn't bring any surprise/difference, better set the
following param before the test(I'm planning to make them default in the
next version):
# echo 64 > /sys/devices/virtual/workqueue/batch_free_wq/max_active
# echo 1030 > /sys/kernel/debug/parallel_free/max_gather_batch_count

Regards,
Aaron