linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 07/20] mm/lru: introduce TestClearPageLRU

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Date:   Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:11:44 -0800
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     cgroups@...r.kernel.org, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
        tj@...nel.org, hughd@...gle.com, khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru,
        daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com, yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com,
        willy@...radead.org, hannes@...xchg.org, lkp@...el.com,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 07/20] mm/lru: introduce TestClearPageLRU

On Mon,  2 Mar 2020 19:00:17 +0800 Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> Combined PageLRU check and ClearPageLRU into one function by new
> introduced func TestClearPageLRU. This function will be used as page
> isolation precondition.
> 
> No functional change yet.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2588,9 +2588,8 @@ static void commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  		pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
>  		spin_lock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
>  
> -		if (PageLRU(page)) {
> +		if (TestClearPageLRU(page)) {
>  			lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);
> -			ClearPageLRU(page);
>  			del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
>  		} else

The code will now get exclusive access of the page->flags cacheline and
will dirty that cacheline, even for !PageLRU() pages.  What is the
performance impact of this?