Re: [PATCH] memory_hotplug: Free pages as higher order
From: Arun KS
Date: Mon Sep 24 2018 - 03:57:28 EST
On 2018-09-21 21:12, Dan Williams wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 2:40 AM Arun KS <arunks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When free pages are done with higher order, time spend on
coalescing pages by buddy allocator can be reduced. With
section size of 256MB, hot add latency of a single section
shows improvement from 50-60 ms to less than 1 ms, hence
improving the hot add latency by 60%.
Modify external providers of online callback to align with
the change.
Signed-off-by: Arun KS <arunks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since RFC:
- Rebase.
- As suggested by Michal Hocko remove pages_per_block.
- Modifed external providers of online_page_callback.
RFC:
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/984754/
---
drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 6 +++--
drivers/xen/balloon.c | 18 +++++++++++---
include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 2 +-
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 55
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
4 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
index b1b7880..c5bc0b5 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
@@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ static void hv_mem_hot_add(unsigned long start,
unsigned long size,
}
}
-static void hv_online_page(struct page *pg)
+static int hv_online_page(struct page *pg, unsigned int order)
{
struct hv_hotadd_state *has;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -783,10 +783,12 @@ static void hv_online_page(struct page *pg)
if ((pfn < has->start_pfn) || (pfn >= has->end_pfn))
continue;
- hv_page_online_one(has, pg);
+ hv_bring_pgs_online(has, pfn, (1UL << order));
break;
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dm_device.ha_lock, flags);
+
+ return 0;
}
static int pfn_covered(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long
pfn_cnt)
diff --git a/drivers/xen/balloon.c b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
index e12bb25..010cf4d 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/balloon.c
@@ -390,8 +390,8 @@ static enum bp_state
reserve_additional_memory(void)
/*
* add_memory_resource() will call online_pages() which in its
turn
- * will call xen_online_page() callback causing deadlock if we
don't
- * release balloon_mutex here. Unlocking here is safe because
the
+ * will call xen_bring_pgs_online() callback causing deadlock
if we
+ * don't release balloon_mutex here. Unlocking here is safe
because the
* callers drop the mutex before trying again.
*/
mutex_unlock(&balloon_mutex);
@@ -422,6 +422,18 @@ static void xen_online_page(struct page *page)
mutex_unlock(&balloon_mutex);
}
+static int xen_bring_pgs_online(struct page *pg, unsigned int order)
+{
+ unsigned long i, size = (1 << order);
+ unsigned long start_pfn = page_to_pfn(pg);
+
+ pr_debug("Online %lu pages starting at pfn 0x%lx\n", size,
start_pfn);
+ for (i = 0; i < size; i++)
+ xen_online_page(pfn_to_page(start_pfn + i));
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
static int xen_memory_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned
long val, void *v)
{
if (val == MEM_ONLINE)
@@ -744,7 +756,7 @@ static int __init balloon_init(void)
balloon_stats.max_retry_count = RETRY_UNLIMITED;
#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
- set_online_page_callback(&xen_online_page);
+ set_online_page_callback(&xen_bring_pgs_online);
register_memory_notifier(&xen_memory_nb);
register_sysctl_table(xen_root);
diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index 34a2822..7b04c1d 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ extern int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long
start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
unsigned long *valid_start, unsigned long *valid_end);
extern void __offline_isolated_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long);
-typedef void (*online_page_callback_t)(struct page *page);
+typedef int (*online_page_callback_t)(struct page *page, unsigned int
order);
extern int set_online_page_callback(online_page_callback_t callback);
extern int restore_online_page_callback(online_page_callback_t
callback);
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 38d94b7..24c2b8e 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
* and restore_online_page_callback() for generic callback restore.
*/
-static void generic_online_page(struct page *page);
+static int generic_online_page(struct page *page, unsigned int
order);
static online_page_callback_t online_page_callback =
generic_online_page;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(online_page_callback_lock);
@@ -655,26 +655,57 @@ void __online_page_free(struct page *page)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__online_page_free);
-static void generic_online_page(struct page *page)
+static int generic_online_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
{
- __online_page_set_limits(page);
- __online_page_increment_counters(page);
- __online_page_free(page);
+ unsigned long nr_pages = 1 << order;
+ struct page *p = page;
+ unsigned int loop;
+
+ prefetchw(p);
+ for (loop = 0 ; loop < (nr_pages - 1) ; loop++, p++) {
+ prefetch(p + 1);
Given commits like:
e66eed651fd1 list: remove prefetching from regular list iterators
75d65a425c01 hlist: remove software prefetching in hlist iterators
...are you sure these explicit prefetch() calls are improving
performance? My understanding is that hardware prefetchers don't need
much help these days.
Hello Dan,
Thanks for your comment. I tested on arm64 with and without prefetch and
as you guessed, the one without prefetch is slightly better.
Will remove prefetch before sending next version.
Regards,
Arun