Re: [PATCH -mm -V3 00/21] mm, THP, swap: Swapout/swapin THP in one piece
From: Huang\, Ying
Date: Tue Jun 05 2018 - 00:30:20 EST
Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 04:26:04PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
>> And for all, Any comment is welcome!
>>
>> This patchset is based on the 2018-05-18 head of mmotm/master.
>
> Trying to review this and it doesn't apply to mmotm-2018-05-18-16-44. git
> fails on patch 10:
>
> Applying: mm, THP, swap: Support to count THP swapin and its fallback
> error: Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst: does not exist in index
> Patch failed at 0010 mm, THP, swap: Support to count THP swapin and its fallback
>
> Sure enough, this tag has Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt but not the .rst
> version. Was this the tag you meant? If so did you pull in some of Mike
> Rapoport's doc changes on top?
I use the mmotm tree at
git://git.cmpxchg.org/linux-mmotm.git
Maybe you are using the other one?
>> base optimized
>> ---------------- --------------------------
>> %stddev %change %stddev
>> \ | \
>> 1417897 2% +992.8% 15494673 vm-scalability.throughput
>> 1020489 4% +1091.2% 12156349 vmstat.swap.si
>> 1255093 3% +940.3% 13056114 vmstat.swap.so
>> 1259769 7% +1818.3% 24166779 meminfo.AnonHugePages
>> 28021761 -10.7% 25018848 2% meminfo.AnonPages
>> 64080064 4% -95.6% 2787565 33% interrupts.CAL:Function_call_interrupts
>> 13.91 5% -13.8 0.10 27% perf-profile.children.cycles-pp.native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
>>
> ...snip...
>> test, while in optimized kernel, that is 96.6%. The TLB flushing IPI
>> (represented as interrupts.CAL:Function_call_interrupts) reduced
>> 95.6%, while cycles for spinlock reduced from 13.9% to 0.1%. These
>> are performance benefit of THP swapout/swapin too.
>
> Which spinlocks are we spending less time on?
"perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp.native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath._raw_spin_lock_irq.mem_cgroup_commit_charge.do_swap_page.__handle_mm_fault": 4.39,
"perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp.native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath._raw_spin_lock.free_pcppages_bulk.drain_pages_zone.drain_pages": 1.53,
"perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp.native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath._raw_spin_lock.get_page_from_freelist.__alloc_pages_slowpath.__alloc_pages_nodemask": 1.34,
"perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp.native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath._raw_spin_lock.swapcache_free_entries.free_swap_slot.do_swap_page": 1.02,
"perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp.native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath._raw_spin_lock_irq.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_node_memcg.shrink_node": 0.61,
"perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp.native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath._raw_spin_lock_irq.shrink_active_list.shrink_node_memcg.shrink_node": 0.54,
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying