Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] hugetlb: parallelize 1G hugetlb initialization

From: Gang Li
Date: Wed Jan 24 2024 - 05:52:38 EST


On 2024/1/24 17:23, Muchun Song wrote:
On 2024/1/18 20:39, Gang Li wrote:
Optimizing the initialization speed of 1G huge pages through
parallelization.

1G hugetlbs are allocated from bootmem, a process that is already
very fast and does not currently require optimization. Therefore,
we focus on parallelizing only the initialization phase in
`gather_bootmem_prealloc`.

Here are some test results:
         test          no patch(ms)   patched(ms)   saved
  ------------------- -------------- ------------- --------
   256c2t(4 node) 1G           4745          2024   57.34%

What does "256c2t" mean?

A machine with 256 core and 2T memory.


   128c1t(2 node) 1G           3358          1712   49.02%
       12t        1G          77000         18300   76.23%

Signed-off-by: Gang Li <gang.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  include/linux/hugetlb.h |  2 +-
  mm/hugetlb.c            | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index c1ee640d87b1..77b30a8c6076 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ pte_t *huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
  struct address_space *hugetlb_page_mapping_lock_write(struct page *hpage);
  extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group;
-extern struct list_head huge_boot_pages;
+extern struct list_head huge_boot_pages[MAX_NUMNODES];
  /* arch callbacks */
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 9b348ba418f5..2f4b77630ada 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ static bool hugetlb_cma_folio(struct folio *folio, unsigned int order)
  #endif
  static unsigned long hugetlb_cma_size __initdata;
-__initdata LIST_HEAD(huge_boot_pages);
+__initdata struct list_head huge_boot_pages[MAX_NUMNODES];
  /* for command line parsing */
  static struct hstate * __initdata parsed_hstate;
@@ -3301,7 +3301,7 @@ int alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
  int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
  {
      struct huge_bootmem_page *m = NULL; /* initialize for clang */
-    int nr_nodes, node;
+    int nr_nodes, node = nid;

Why not use nid directly in the following list_add()?

`node` may be changed in `for_each_node_mask_to_alloc`.


      /* do node specific alloc */
      if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
@@ -3339,7 +3339,7 @@ int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
          huge_page_size(h) - PAGE_SIZE);
      /* Put them into a private list first because mem_map is not up yet */
      INIT_LIST_HEAD(&m->list);
-    list_add(&m->list, &huge_boot_pages);
+    list_add(&m->list, &huge_boot_pages[node]);
      m->hstate = h;
      return 1;
  }
@@ -3390,8 +3390,6 @@ static void __init prep_and_add_bootmem_folios(struct hstate *h,
      /* Send list for bulk vmemmap optimization processing */
      hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios(h, folio_list);
-    /* Add all new pool pages to free lists in one lock cycle */
-    spin_lock_irqsave(&hugetlb_lock, flags);
      list_for_each_entry_safe(folio, tmp_f, folio_list, lru) {
          if (!folio_test_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio)) {
              /*
@@ -3404,23 +3402,27 @@ static void __init prep_and_add_bootmem_folios(struct hstate *h,
                      HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_PAGES,
                      pages_per_huge_page(h));
          }
+        /* Subdivide locks to achieve better parallel performance *
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&hugetlb_lock, flags);
          __prep_account_new_huge_page(h, folio_nid(folio));
          enqueue_hugetlb_folio(h, folio);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hugetlb_lock, flags);
      }
-    spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hugetlb_lock, flags);
  }
  /*
   * Put bootmem huge pages into the standard lists after mem_map is up.
   * Note: This only applies to gigantic (order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER) pages.
   */
-static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc(void)
+static void __init __gather_bootmem_prealloc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, void *arg)

This function name could be gather_bootmem_prealloc_node.


LGTM.

+
  {
+    int nid = start;
      LIST_HEAD(folio_list);
      struct huge_bootmem_page *m;
      struct hstate *h = NULL, *prev_h = NULL;
-    list_for_each_entry(m, &huge_boot_pages, list) {
+    list_for_each_entry(m, &huge_boot_pages[nid], list) {
          struct page *page = virt_to_page(m);
          struct folio *folio = (void *)page;
@@ -3453,6 +3455,22 @@ static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc(void)
      prep_and_add_bootmem_folios(h, &folio_list);
  }
+static void __init gather_bootmem_prealloc(void)
+{
+    struct padata_mt_job job = {
+        .thread_fn    = __gather_bootmem_prealloc,
+        .fn_arg        = NULL,
+        .start        = 0,
+        .size        = num_node_state(N_MEMORY),
+        .align        = 1,
+        .min_chunk    = 1,
+        .max_threads    = num_node_state(N_MEMORY),
+        .numa_aware    = true,
+    };
+
+    padata_do_multithreaded(&job);
+}
+
  static void __init hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages_onenode(struct hstate *h, int nid)
  {
      unsigned long i;
@@ -3602,6 +3620,14 @@ static void __init hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages(struct hstate *h)
          return;
      }
+    /* hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages will be called many times, init huge_boot_pages once*/

s/init/initialize/g

And you miss a black right before "*/".

OK


+    if (huge_boot_pages[0].next == NULL) {

It it not intuitive. I'd like to use a 'initialied' variable

Would it make the code look a bit redundant?

to indicate whether it has been initialized. BTW, it can be
marked as __initdata.


OK