Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm, lru_gen: batch update counters on againg

From: Kairui Song
Date: Thu Jan 11 2024 - 13:38:21 EST


Kairui Song <ryncsn@xxxxxxxxx> 于2024年1月12日周五 02:33写道:
>
> From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When lru_gen is aging, it will update mm counters page by page,
> which causes a higher overhead if age happens frequently or there
> are a lot of pages in one generation getting moved.
> Optimize this by doing the counter update in batch.
>
> Although most __mod_*_state has its own caches the overhead
> is still observable.
>
> Tested in a 4G memcg on a EPYC 7K62 with:
>
> memcached -u nobody -m 16384 -s /tmp/memcached.socket \
> -a 0766 -t 16 -B binary &
>
> memtier_benchmark -S /tmp/memcached.socket \
> -P memcache_binary -n allkeys \
> --key-minimum=1 --key-maximum=16000000 -d 1024 \
> --ratio=1:0 --key-pattern=P:P -c 2 -t 16 --pipeline 8 -x 6
>
> Average result of 18 test runs:
>
> Before: 44017.78 Ops/sec
> After: 44687.08 Ops/sec (+1.5%)
>
> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>

My apology for being careless again here... the title here should be:
mm, lru_gen: batch update counters on aging