linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] free_pcppages_bulk: prefetch buddy while not holding lock

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Message-Id: <20180124023050.20097-2-aaron.lu@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:30:50 +0800
From:   Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@...el.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] free_pcppages_bulk: prefetch buddy while not holding lock

When a page is freed back to the global pool, its buddy will be checked
to see if it's possible to do a merge. This requires accessing buddy's
page structure and that access could take a long time if it's cache cold.

This patch adds a prefetch to the to-be-freed page's buddy outside of
zone->lock in hope of accessing buddy's page structure later under
zone->lock will be faster.

Test with will-it-scale/page_fault1 full load:

kernel      Broadwell(2S)  Skylake(2S)   Broadwell(4S)  Skylake(4S)
v4.15-rc4   9037332        8000124       13642741       15728686
patch1/2    9608786 +6.3%  8368915 +4.6% 14042169 +2.9% 17433559 +10.8%
this patch 10462292 +8.9%  8602889 +2.8% 14802073 +5.4% 17624575 +1.1%

Note: this patch's performance improvement percent is against patch1/2.

Suggested-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index a076f754dac1..9ef084d41708 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1140,6 +1140,9 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
 			batch_free = count;
 
 		do {
+			unsigned long pfn, buddy_pfn;
+			struct page *buddy;
+
 			page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, lru);
 			/* must delete as __free_one_page list manipulates */
 			list_del(&page->lru);
@@ -1148,6 +1151,16 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
 				continue;
 
 			list_add_tail(&page->lru, &head);
+
+			/*
+			 * We are going to put the page back to
+			 * the global pool, prefetch its buddy to
+			 * speed up later access under zone->lock.
+			 */
+			pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
+			buddy_pfn = __find_buddy_pfn(pfn, 0);
+			buddy = page + (buddy_pfn - pfn);
+			prefetch(buddy);
 		} while (--count && --batch_free && !list_empty(list));
 	}
 
-- 
2.14.3