linux-kernel - [PATCH v11 9/9] sparc64: optimized struct page zeroing

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Message-Id: <20171009221931.1481-10-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon,  9 Oct 2017 18:19:31 -0400
From:   Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
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        steven.sistare@...cle.com, daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com,
        bob.picco@...cle.com
Subject: [PATCH v11 9/9] sparc64: optimized struct page zeroing

Add an optimized mm_zero_struct_page(), so struct page's are zeroed without
calling memset(). We do eight to ten regular stores based on the size of
struct page. Compiler optimizes out the conditions of switch() statement.

SPARC-M6 with 15T of memory, single thread performance:

                               BASE            FIX  OPTIMIZED_FIX
        bootmem_init   28.440467985s   2.305674818s   2.305161615s
free_area_init_nodes  202.845901673s 225.343084508s 172.556506560s
                      --------------------------------------------
Total                 231.286369658s 227.648759326s 174.861668175s

BASE:  current linux
FIX:   This patch series without "optimized struct page zeroing"
OPTIMIZED_FIX: This patch series including the current patch.

bootmem_init() is where memory for struct pages is zeroed during
allocation. Note, about two seconds in this function is a fixed time: it
does not increase as memory is increased.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@...cle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@...cle.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
---
 arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
index 4fefe3762083..8ed478abc630 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
@@ -230,6 +230,36 @@ extern unsigned long _PAGE_ALL_SZ_BITS;
 extern struct page *mem_map_zero;
 #define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr)	(mem_map_zero)
 
+/* This macro must be updated when the size of struct page grows above 80
+ * or reduces below 64.
+ * The idea that compiler optimizes out switch() statement, and only
+ * leaves clrx instructions
+ */
+#define	mm_zero_struct_page(pp) do {					\
+	unsigned long *_pp = (void *)(pp);				\
+									\
+	 /* Check that struct page is either 64, 72, or 80 bytes */	\
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) & 7);				\
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) < 64);				\
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct page) > 80);				\
+									\
+	switch (sizeof(struct page)) {					\
+	case 80:							\
+		_pp[9] = 0;	/* fallthrough */			\
+	case 72:							\
+		_pp[8] = 0;	/* fallthrough */			\
+	default:							\
+		_pp[7] = 0;						\
+		_pp[6] = 0;						\
+		_pp[5] = 0;						\
+		_pp[4] = 0;						\
+		_pp[3] = 0;						\
+		_pp[2] = 0;						\
+		_pp[1] = 0;						\
+		_pp[0] = 0;						\
+	}								\
+} while (0)
+
 /* PFNs are real physical page numbers.  However, mem_map only begins to record
  * per-page information starting at pfn_base.  This is to handle systems where
  * the first physical page in the machine is at some huge physical address,
-- 
2.14.2