Re: [RFC PATCH v1 13/13] mm: splice local lists onto the front of the LRU
From: Laurent Dufour
Date: Fri Feb 02 2018 - 10:22:57 EST
On 01/02/2018 00:04, daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Now that release_pages is scaling better with concurrent removals from
> the LRU, the performance results (included below) showed increased
> contention on lru_lock in the add-to-LRU path.
>
> To alleviate some of this contention, do more work outside the LRU lock.
> Prepare a local list of pages to be spliced onto the front of the LRU,
> including setting PageLRU in each page, before taking lru_lock. Since
> other threads use this page flag in certain checks outside lru_lock,
> ensure each page's LRU links have been properly initialized before
> setting the flag, and use memory barriers accordingly.
>
> Performance Results
>
> This is a will-it-scale run of page_fault1 using 4 different kernels.
>
> kernel kern #
>
> 4.15-rc2 1
> large-zone-batch 2
> lru-lock-base 3
> lru-lock-splice 4
>
> Each kernel builds on the last. The first is a baseline, the second
> makes zone->lock more scalable by increasing an order-0 per-cpu
> pagelist's 'batch' and 'high' values to 310 and 1860 respectively
> (courtesy of Aaron Lu's patch), the third scales lru_lock without
> splicing pages (the previous patch in this series), and the fourth adds
> page splicing (this patch).
>
> N tasks mmap, fault, and munmap anonymous pages in a loop until the test
> time has elapsed.
>
> The process case generally does better than the thread case most likely
> because of mmap_sem acting as a bottleneck. There's ongoing work
> upstream[*] to scale this lock, however, and once it goes in, my
> hypothesis is the thread numbers here will improve.
>
> kern # ntask proc thr proc stdev thr stdev
> speedup speedup pgf/s pgf/s
> 1 1 705,533 1,644 705,227 1,122
> 2 1 2.5% 2.8% 722,912 453 724,807 728
> 3 1 2.6% 2.6% 724,215 653 723,213 941
> 4 1 2.3% 2.8% 721,746 272 724,944 728
>
> kern # ntask proc thr proc stdev thr stdev
> speedup speedup pgf/s pgf/s
> 1 4 2,525,487 7,428 1,973,616 12,568
> 2 4 2.6% 7.6% 2,590,699 6,968 2,123,570 10,350
> 3 4 2.3% 4.4% 2,584,668 12,833 2,059,822 10,748
> 4 4 4.7% 5.2% 2,643,251 13,297 2,076,808 9,506
>
> kern # ntask proc thr proc stdev thr stdev
> speedup speedup pgf/s pgf/s
> 1 16 6,444,656 20,528 3,226,356 32,874
> 2 16 1.9% 10.4% 6,566,846 20,803 3,560,437 64,019
> 3 16 18.3% 6.8% 7,624,749 58,497 3,447,109 67,734
> 4 16 28.2% 2.5% 8,264,125 31,677 3,306,679 69,443
>
> kern # ntask proc thr proc stdev thr stdev
> speedup speedup pgf/s pgf/s
> 1 32 11,564,988 32,211 2,456,507 38,898
> 2 32 1.8% 1.5% 11,777,119 45,418 2,494,064 27,964
> 3 32 16.1% -2.7% 13,426,746 94,057 2,389,934 40,186
> 4 32 26.2% 1.2% 14,593,745 28,121 2,486,059 42,004
>
> kern # ntask proc thr proc stdev thr stdev
> speedup speedup pgf/s pgf/s
> 1 64 12,080,629 33,676 2,443,043 61,973
> 2 64 3.9% 9.9% 12,551,136 206,202 2,684,632 69,483
> 3 64 15.0% -3.8% 13,892,933 351,657 2,351,232 67,875
> 4 64 21.9% 1.8% 14,728,765 64,945 2,485,940 66,839
>
> [*] https://lwn.net/Articles/724502/ Range reader/writer locks
> https://lwn.net/Articles/744188/ Speculative page faults
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 1 +
> mm/mlock.c | 1 +
> mm/swap.c | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> mm/vmscan.c | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 99a54df760e3..6911626f29b2 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2077,6 +2077,7 @@ static void lock_page_lru(struct page *page, int *isolated)
>
> lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, zone->zone_pgdat);
> ClearPageLRU(page);
> + smp_rmb(); /* Pairs with smp_wmb in __pagevec_lru_add */
Why not include the call to smp_rmb() in del_page_from_lru_list() instead
of spreading smp_rmb() before calls to del_page_from_lru_list() ?
> del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
> *isolated = 1;
> } else
> diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
> index 6ba6a5887aeb..da294c5bbc2c 100644
> --- a/mm/mlock.c
> +++ b/mm/mlock.c
> @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static bool __munlock_isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, bool getpage)
> if (getpage)
> get_page(page);
> ClearPageLRU(page);
> + smp_rmb(); /* Pairs with smp_wmb in __pagevec_lru_add */
> del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
> return true;
> }
> diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
> index a302224293ad..46a98dc8e9ad 100644
> --- a/mm/swap.c
> +++ b/mm/swap.c
> @@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ static void pagevec_move_tail_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> int *pgmoved = arg;
>
> if (PageLRU(page) && !PageUnevictable(page)) {
> + smp_rmb(); /* Pairs with smp_wmb in __pagevec_lru_add */
> del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
> ClearPageActive(page);
> add_page_to_lru_list_tail(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
> @@ -277,6 +278,7 @@ static void __activate_page(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> int file = page_is_file_cache(page);
> int lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
>
> + smp_rmb(); /* Pairs with smp_wmb in __pagevec_lru_add */
> del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
> SetPageActive(page);
> lru += LRU_ACTIVE;
> @@ -544,6 +546,7 @@ static void lru_deactivate_file_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> file = page_is_file_cache(page);
> lru = page_lru_base_type(page);
>
> + smp_rmb(); /* Pairs with smp_wmb in __pagevec_lru_add */
> del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru + active);
> ClearPageActive(page);
> ClearPageReferenced(page);
> @@ -578,6 +581,7 @@ static void lru_lazyfree_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> !PageSwapCache(page) && !PageUnevictable(page)) {
> bool active = PageActive(page);
>
> + smp_rmb(); /* Pairs with smp_wmb in __pagevec_lru_add */
> del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec,
> LRU_INACTIVE_ANON + active);
> ClearPageActive(page);
> @@ -903,6 +907,60 @@ static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
> trace_mm_lru_insertion(page, lru);
> }
>
> +#define MAX_LRU_SPLICES 4
> +
> +struct lru_splice {
> + struct list_head list;
> + struct lruvec *lruvec;
> + enum lru_list lru;
> + int nid;
> + int zid;
> + size_t nr_pages;
> +};
> +
> +/*
> + * Adds a page to a local list for splicing, or else to the singletons
> + * list for individual processing.
> + *
> + * Returns the new number of splices in the splices list.
> + */
> +size_t add_page_to_lru_splice(struct lru_splice *splices, size_t nr_splices,
> + struct list_head *singletons, struct page *page)
> +{
> + int i;
> + enum lru_list lru = page_lru(page);
> + enum zone_type zid = page_zonenum(page);
> + int nid = page_to_nid(page);
> + struct lruvec *lruvec;
> +
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
> +
> + lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, NODE_DATA(nid));
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < nr_splices; ++i) {
> + if (splices[i].lruvec == lruvec && splices[i].zid == zid) {
> + list_add(&page->lru, &splices[i].list);
> + splices[nr_splices].nr_pages += hpage_nr_pages(page);
> + return nr_splices;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + if (nr_splices < MAX_LRU_SPLICES) {
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&splices[nr_splices].list);
> + splices[nr_splices].lruvec = lruvec;
> + splices[nr_splices].lru = lru;
> + splices[nr_splices].nid = nid;
> + splices[nr_splices].zid = zid;
> + splices[nr_splices].nr_pages = hpage_nr_pages(page);
> + list_add(&page->lru, &splices[nr_splices].list);
> + ++nr_splices;
> + } else {
> + list_add(&page->lru, singletons);
> + }
> +
> + return nr_splices;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Add the passed pages to the LRU, then drop the caller's refcount
> * on them. Reinitialises the caller's pagevec.
> @@ -911,12 +969,59 @@ void __pagevec_lru_add(struct pagevec *pvec)
> {
> int i;
> struct pglist_data *pgdat = NULL;
> - struct lruvec *lruvec;
> unsigned long flags = 0;
> + struct lru_splice splices[MAX_LRU_SPLICES];
> + size_t nr_splices = 0;
> + LIST_HEAD(singletons);
> + struct page *page, *next;
>
> - for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(pvec); i++) {
> - struct page *page = pvec->pages[i];
> - struct pglist_data *pagepgdat = page_pgdat(page);
> + /*
> + * Sort the pages into local lists to splice onto the LRU once we
> + * hold lru_lock. In the common case there should be few of these
> + * local lists.
> + */
> + for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(pvec); ++i) {
> + page = pvec->pages[i];
> + nr_splices = add_page_to_lru_splice(splices, nr_splices,
> + &singletons, page);
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * Paired with read barriers where we check PageLRU and modify
> + * page->lru, for example pagevec_move_tail_fn.
> + */
> + smp_wmb();
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < pagevec_count(pvec); i++)
> + SetPageLRU(pvec->pages[i]);
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < nr_splices; ++i) {
> + struct lru_splice *s = &splices[i];
> + struct pglist_data *splice_pgdat = NODE_DATA(s->nid);
> +
> + if (splice_pgdat != pgdat) {
> + if (pgdat)
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdat->lru_lock, flags);
> + pgdat = splice_pgdat;
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&pgdat->lru_lock, flags);
> + }
> +
> + update_lru_size(s->lruvec, s->lru, s->zid, s->nr_pages);
> + list_splice(&s->list, lru_head(&s->lruvec->lists[s->lru]));
> + update_page_reclaim_stat(s->lruvec, is_file_lru(s->lru),
> + is_active_lru(s->lru));
> + /* XXX add splice tracepoint */
> + }
> +
> + while (!list_empty(&singletons)) {
> + struct pglist_data *pagepgdat;
> + struct lruvec *lruvec;
> + struct list_head *list;
> +
> + list = singletons.next;
> + page = list_entry(list, struct page, lru);
> + list_del(list);
> + pagepgdat = page_pgdat(page);
>
> if (pagepgdat != pgdat) {
> if (pgdat)
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 7f5ff0bb133f..338850ad03a6 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -1629,6 +1629,7 @@ int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page)
> int lru = page_lru(page);
> get_page(page);
> ClearPageLRU(page);
> + smp_rmb(); /* Pairs with smp_wmb in __pagevec_lru_add */
> del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);
> ret = 0;
> }
>