From ca7b59b1de72450b3e696bada3506a519ac5455c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:43:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: fetch the correct pcp buddy during bulk free Patch series "Follow-up on high-order PCP caching", v2. 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 2-5 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 6 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. This patch (of 6): free_pcppages_bulk() prefetches buddies about to be freed but the order must also be passed in as PCP lists store multiple orders. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220217002227.5739-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220217002227.5739-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net Fixes: 44042b449872 ("mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists") Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka Reviewed-by: Aaron Lu Tested-by: Aaron Lu Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/page_alloc.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 38388020..35c399d 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1429,10 +1429,10 @@ static bool bulkfree_pcp_prepare(struct page *page) } #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_VM */ -static inline void prefetch_buddy(struct page *page) +static inline void prefetch_buddy(struct page *page, unsigned int order) { unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page); - unsigned long buddy_pfn = __find_buddy_pfn(pfn, 0); + unsigned long buddy_pfn = __find_buddy_pfn(pfn, order); struct page *buddy = page + (buddy_pfn - pfn); prefetch(buddy); @@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count, * prefetch buddy for the first pcp->batch nr of pages. */ if (prefetch_nr) { - prefetch_buddy(page); + prefetch_buddy(page, order); prefetch_nr--; } } while (count > 0 && --batch_free && !list_empty(list)); -- 2.7.4