linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 3/6] mm: Introduce Reported pages

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:00:23 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org, kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@...il.com>,
        Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@...hat.com>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@...hat.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, lcapitulino@...hat.com,
        "Wang, Wei W" <wei.w.wang@...el.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 3/6] mm: Introduce Reported pages

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 07:50:15AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > > +static inline void
> > > +page_reporting_reset_boundary(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order, int mt)
> > > +{
> > > +     int index;
> > > +
> > > +     if (order < PAGE_REPORTING_MIN_ORDER)
> > > +             return;
> > > +     if (!test_bit(ZONE_PAGE_REPORTING_ACTIVE, &zone->flags))
> > > +             return;
> > > +
> > > +     index = get_reporting_index(order, mt);
> > > +     reported_boundary[index] = &zone->free_area[order].free_list[mt];
> > > +}
> >
> > So this seems to be costly.
> > I'm guessing it's the access to flags:
> >
> >
> >         /* zone flags, see below */
> >         unsigned long           flags;
> >
> >         /* Primarily protects free_area */
> >         spinlock_t              lock;
> >
> >
> >
> > which is in the same cache line as the lock.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by this being costly?

I've just been wondering why does will it scale report a 1.5% regression
with this patch.

> Also, at least on my system, pahole seems to indicate they are in
> different cache lines.
> 
> /* --- cacheline 3 boundary (192 bytes) --- */
> struct zone_padding        _pad1_;               /*   192     0 */
> struct free_area           free_area[11];        /*   192  1144 */
> /* --- cacheline 20 boundary (1280 bytes) was 56 bytes ago --- */
> long unsigned int          flags;                /*  1336     8 */
> /* --- cacheline 21 boundary (1344 bytes) --- */
> spinlock_t                 lock;                 /*  1344     4 */
> 
> Basically these flags aren't supposed to be touched unless we are
> holding the lock anyway so I am not sure it would be all that costly
> for this setup. Basically we are holding the lock when the flag is set
> or cleared, and we only set it if it is not already set. If needed
> though I suppose I could look at moving the flags if you think that is
> an issue. However I would probably need to add some additional padding
> to prevent the lock from getting into the same cache line as the
> free_area values.

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MST