Re: [PATCH 1/2] free_pcppages_bulk: do not hold lock when picking pages to free

[Mel Gorman]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:30:49AM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> When freeing a batch of pages from Per-CPU-Pages(PCP) back to buddy,
> the zone->lock is held and then pages are chosen from PCP's migratetype
> list. While there is actually no need to do this 'choose part' under
> lock since it's PCP pages, the only CPU that can touch them is us and
> irq is also disabled.
> 
> Moving this part outside could reduce lock held time and improve
> performance. Test with will-it-scale/page_fault1 full load:
> 
> kernel      Broadwell(2S)  Skylake(2S)   Broadwell(4S)  Skylake(4S)
> v4.15-rc4   9037332        8000124       13642741       15728686
> this patch  9608786 +6.3%  8368915 +4.6% 14042169 +2.9% 17433559 +10.8%
> 
> What the test does is: starts $nr_cpu processes and each will repeated
> do the following for 5 minutes:
> 1 mmap 128M anonymouse space;
> 2 write access to that space;
> 3 munmap.
> The score is the aggregated iteration.
> 
> https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale/blob/master/tests/page_fault1.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 4093728f292e..a076f754dac1 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1113,12 +1113,12 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
>  	int migratetype = 0;
>  	int batch_free = 0;
>  	bool isolated_pageblocks;
> +	struct list_head head;
> +	struct page *page, *tmp;
>  
> -	spin_lock(&zone->lock);
> -	isolated_pageblocks = has_isolate_pageblock(zone);
> +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head);
>  

Declare head as LIST_HEAD(head) and avoid INIT_LIST_HEAD. Otherwise I
think this is safe

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs