linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/5] Follow-up on high-order PCP caching

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Message-Id: <20220215145111.27082-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Date:   Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:51:06 +0000
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] Follow-up on high-order PCP caching

Commit 44042b449872 ("mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be
stored on the per-cpu lists") was primarily aimed at reducing the cost
of SLUB cache refills of high-order pages in two ways. Firstly, zone
lock acquisitions was reduced and secondly, there were fewer buddy list
modifications. This is a follow-up series fixing some issues that became
apparant after merging.

Patch 1 is a functional fix. It's harmless but inefficient.

Patches 2-4 reduce the overhead of bulk freeing of PCP pages. While
the overhead is small, it's cumulative and noticable when truncating
large files. The changelog for patch 4 includes results of a microbench
that deletes large sparse files with data in page cache. Sparse files
were used to eliminate filesystem overhead.

Patch 5 addresses issues with high-order PCP pages being stored on PCP
lists for too long. Pages freed on a CPU potentially may not be quickly
reused and in some cases this can increase cache miss rates.  Details are
included in the changelog.

 mm/page_alloc.c | 128 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)

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