mm, clear_huge_page: move order algorithm into a separate function
Patch series "mm, huge page: Copy target sub-page last when copy huge page", v2. Huge page helps to reduce TLB miss rate, but it has higher cache footprint, sometimes this may cause some issue. For example, when copying huge page on x86_64 platform, the cache footprint is 4M. But on a Xeon E5 v3 2699 CPU, there are 18 cores, 36 threads, and only 45M LLC (last level cache). That is, in average, there are 2.5M LLC for each core and 1.25M LLC for each thread. If the cache contention is heavy when copying the huge page, and we copy the huge page from the begin to the end, it is possible that the begin of huge page is evicted from the cache after we finishing copying the end of the huge page. And it is possible for the application to access the begin of the huge page after copying the huge page. In c79b57e4 ("mm: hugetlb: clear target sub-page last when clearing huge page"), to keep the cache lines of the target subpage hot, the order to clear the subpages in the huge page in clear_huge_page() is changed to clearing the subpage which is furthest from the target subpage firstly, and the target subpage last. The similar order changing helps huge page copying too. That is implemented in this patchset. The patchset is a generic optimization which should benefit quite some workloads, not for a specific use case. To demonstrate the performance benefit of the patchset, we have tested it with vm-scalability run on transparent huge page. With this patchset, the throughput increases ~16.6% in vm-scalability anon-cow-seq test case with 36 processes on a 2 socket Xeon E5 v3 2699 system (36 cores, 72 threads). The test case set /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled to be always, mmap() a big anonymous memory area and populate it, then forked 36 child processes, each writes to the anonymous memory area from the begin to the end, so cause copy on write. For each child process, other child processes could be seen as other workloads which generate heavy cache pressure. At the same time, the IPC (instruction per cycle) increased from 0.63 to 0.78, and the time spent in user space is reduced ~7.2%. This patch (of 4): In c79b57e4 ("mm: hugetlb: clear target sub-page last when clearing huge page"), to keep the cache lines of the target subpage hot, the order to clear the subpages in the huge page in clear_huge_page() is changed to clearing the subpage which is furthest from the target subpage firstly, and the target subpage last. This optimization could be applied to copying huge page too with the same order algorithm. To avoid code duplication and reduce maintenance overhead, in this patch, the order algorithm is moved out of clear_huge_page() into a separate function: process_huge_page(). So that we can use it for copying huge page too. This will change the direct calls to clear_user_highpage() into the indirect calls. But with the proper inline support of the compilers, the indirect call will be optimized to be the direct call. Our tests show no performance change with the patch. This patch is a code cleanup without functionality change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180524005851.4079-2-ying.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by:"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Suggested-by:
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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