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Message-ID: <20131022125512.GA24418@localhost>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:55:12 +0100
From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 02:53:59PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> If DEBUG_SPINLOCK and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC are enabled spinlock_t on x86_64
> is 72 bytes. For page->ptl they will be allocated from kmalloc-96 slab,
> so we loose 24 on each. An average system can easily allocate few tens
> thousands of page->ptl and overhead is significant.
>
> Let's create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation to solve this.
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
In a 4p server, we noticed up to +469.1% increase in will-it-scale page_fault3
test case and +199.8% in vm-scalability case-shm-pread-seq-mt.
5c02216ce3110aab070d 5a58baaa0a1af0a43d7c
------------------------ ------------------------
300409.00 +440.2% 1622770.80 TOTAL will-it-scale.page_fault3.90.threads
5c02216ce3110aab070d 5a58baaa0a1af0a43d7c
------------------------ ------------------------
291257.80 +469.1% 1657582.20 TOTAL will-it-scale.page_fault3.120.threads
...
5c02216ce3110aab070d 5a58baaa0a1af0a43d7c
------------------------ ------------------------
4034831.40 +199.8% 12095649.80 TOTAL vm-scalability.throughput
Thanks,
Fengguang
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