0day reported one -22.7% regression for will-it-scale page_fault2
case [1] on a 4 sockets 144 CPU platform, and bisected to it to be
caused by Waiman's optimization (commit
bd0b230fe1) of saving one
'struct page_counter' space for 'struct mem_cgroup'.
Initially we thought it was due to the cache alignment change introduced
by the patch, but further debug shows that it is due to some hot data
members ('vmstats_local', 'vmstats_percpu', 'vmstats') sit in 2 adjacent
cacheline (2N and 2N+1 cacheline), and when adjacent cache line prefetch
is enabled, it triggers an "extended level" of cache false sharing for
2 adjacent cache lines.
So exchange the 2 member blocks, while keeping mostly the original
cache alignment, which can restore and even enhance the performance,
and save 64 bytes of space for 'struct mem_cgroup' (from 2880 to 2816,
with 0day's default RHEL-8.3 kernel config)
[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
20201102091543.GM31092@shao2-debian/
Fixes:
bd0b230fe145 ("mm/memcg: unify swap and memsw page counters")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MEMCG_PADDING(_pad1_);
- /*
- * set > 0 if pages under this cgroup are moving to other cgroup.
- */
- atomic_t moving_account;
- struct task_struct *move_lock_task;
-
- /* Legacy local VM stats and events */
- struct memcg_vmstats_percpu __percpu *vmstats_local;
-
- /* Subtree VM stats and events (batched updates) */
- struct memcg_vmstats_percpu __percpu *vmstats_percpu;
-
- MEMCG_PADDING(_pad2_);
-
atomic_long_t vmstats[MEMCG_NR_STAT];
atomic_long_t vmevents[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS];
struct list_head objcg_list; /* list of inherited objcgs */
#endif
+ MEMCG_PADDING(_pad2_);
+
+ /*
+ * set > 0 if pages under this cgroup are moving to other cgroup.
+ */
+ atomic_t moving_account;
+ struct task_struct *move_lock_task;
+
+ /* Legacy local VM stats and events */
+ struct memcg_vmstats_percpu __percpu *vmstats_local;
+
+ /* Subtree VM stats and events (batched updates) */
+ struct memcg_vmstats_percpu __percpu *vmstats_percpu;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
struct list_head cgwb_list;
struct wb_domain cgwb_domain;