Re: [PATCH 1/1] selftests/vm: 8x compaction_test speedup

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 01:06:21 -0700 John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch reduces the running time for compaction_test from about 27
> sec, to 3.3 sec, which is about an 8x speedup.
> 
> These numbers are for an Intel x86_64 system with 32 GB of DRAM.
> 
> The compaction_test.c program was spending most of its time doing
> mmap(), 1 MB at a time, on about 25 GB of memory.
> 
> Instead, do the mmaps 100 MB at a time. (Going past 100 MB doesn't make
> things go much faster, because other parts of the program are using the
> remaining time.)

Seems nice.  It's been 5 years, but hopefully Sri is still at Akamai?

> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vm/compaction_test.c
> @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@
>  
>  #include "../kselftest.h"
>  
> -#define MAP_SIZE 1048576
> +#define MAP_SIZE_MB	100
> +#define MAP_SIZE	(MAP_SIZE_MB * 1024 * 1024)
>  
>  struct map_list {
>  	void *map;
> @@ -165,7 +166,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  	void *map = NULL;
>  	unsigned long mem_free = 0;
>  	unsigned long hugepage_size = 0;
> -	unsigned long mem_fragmentable = 0;
> +	long mem_fragmentable_MB = 0;
>  
>  	if (prereq() != 0) {
>  		printf("Either the sysctl compact_unevictable_allowed is not\n"
> @@ -190,9 +191,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  		return -1;
>  	}
>  
> -	mem_fragmentable = mem_free * 0.8 / 1024;
> +	mem_fragmentable_MB = mem_free * 0.8 / 1024;
>  
> -	while (mem_fragmentable > 0) {
> +	while (mem_fragmentable_MB > 0) {
>  		map = mmap(NULL, MAP_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
>  			   MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_LOCKED, -1, 0);
>  		if (map == MAP_FAILED)
> @@ -213,7 +214,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  		for (i = 0; i < MAP_SIZE; i += page_size)
>  			*(unsigned long *)(map + i) = (unsigned long)map + i;
>  
> -		mem_fragmentable--;
> +		mem_fragmentable_MB -= MAP_SIZE_MB;
>  	}
>  
>  	for (entry = list; entry != NULL; entry = entry->next) {
> -- 
> 2.28.0
>