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Re: [PATCH 00/28] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths v3

From Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 00/28] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths v3
Date 2016-04-15 14:50 +0200
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:58:52 +0100
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> wrote:

> There were no further responses to the last series but I kept going and
> added a few more small bits. Most are basic micro-optimisations.  The last
> two patches weaken debugging checks to improve performance at the cost of
> delayed detection of some use-after-free and memory corruption bugs. If
> they make people uncomfortable, they can be dropped and the rest of the
> series stands on its own.
> 
> Changelog since v2
> o Add more micro-optimisations
> o Weak debugging checks in favor of speed
> 
[...]
> 
> The overall impact on a page allocator microbenchmark for a range of orders

I also micro benchmarked this patchset.  Avail via Mel Gorman's kernel tree:
 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux.git
tested branch mm-vmscan-node-lru-v5r9 which also contain the node-lru series.

Tool:
 https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/kernel/mm/bench/page_bench01.c
Run as:
 modprobe page_bench01; rmmod page_bench01 ; dmesg | tail -n40 | grep 'alloc_pages order'

Results kernel 4.6.0-rc1 :

 alloc_pages order:0(4096B/x1) 272 cycles per-4096B 272 cycles
 alloc_pages order:1(8192B/x2) 395 cycles per-4096B 197 cycles
 alloc_pages order:2(16384B/x4) 433 cycles per-4096B 108 cycles
 alloc_pages order:3(32768B/x8) 503 cycles per-4096B 62 cycles
 alloc_pages order:4(65536B/x16) 682 cycles per-4096B 42 cycles
 alloc_pages order:5(131072B/x32) 910 cycles per-4096B 28 cycles
 alloc_pages order:6(262144B/x64) 1384 cycles per-4096B 21 cycles
 alloc_pages order:7(524288B/x128) 2335 cycles per-4096B 18 cycles
 alloc_pages order:8(1048576B/x256) 4108 cycles per-4096B 16 cycles
 alloc_pages order:9(2097152B/x512) 8398 cycles per-4096B 16 cycles

After Mel Gorman's optimizations, results from mm-vmscan-node-lru-v5r::

 alloc_pages order:0(4096B/x1) 231 cycles per-4096B 231 cycles
 alloc_pages order:1(8192B/x2) 351 cycles per-4096B 175 cycles
 alloc_pages order:2(16384B/x4) 357 cycles per-4096B 89 cycles
 alloc_pages order:3(32768B/x8) 397 cycles per-4096B 49 cycles
 alloc_pages order:4(65536B/x16) 481 cycles per-4096B 30 cycles
 alloc_pages order:5(131072B/x32) 652 cycles per-4096B 20 cycles
 alloc_pages order:6(262144B/x64) 1054 cycles per-4096B 16 cycles
 alloc_pages order:7(524288B/x128) 1852 cycles per-4096B 14 cycles
 alloc_pages order:8(1048576B/x256) 3156 cycles per-4096B 12 cycles
 alloc_pages order:9(2097152B/x512) 6790 cycles per-4096B 13 cycles



I've also started doing some parallel concurrency testing workloads[1]
 [1] https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/kernel/mm/bench/page_bench03.c

Order-0 pages scale nicely:

Results kernel 4.6.0-rc1 :
 Parallel-CPUs:1 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 274 cycles per-4096B 274 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:2 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 283 cycles per-4096B 283 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:3 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 284 cycles per-4096B 284 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:4 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 288 cycles per-4096B 288 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:5 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 417 cycles per-4096B 417 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:6 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 503 cycles per-4096B 503 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:7 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 567 cycles per-4096B 567 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:8 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 620 cycles per-4096B 620 cycles

And even better with you changes! :-))) This is great work!

Results from mm-vmscan-node-lru-v5r:
 Parallel-CPUs:1 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 246 cycles per-4096B 246 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:2 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 251 cycles per-4096B 251 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:3 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 254 cycles per-4096B 254 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:4 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 258 cycles per-4096B 258 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:5 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 313 cycles per-4096B 313 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:6 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 369 cycles per-4096B 369 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:7 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 379 cycles per-4096B 379 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:8 page order:0(4096B/x1) ave 399 cycles per-4096B 399 cycles


It does not seem that higher order page scale... and your patches does
not change this pattern.

Example order-3 pages, which is often used in the network stack:

Results kernel 4.6.0-rc1 ::
 Parallel-CPUs:1 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 524 cycles per-4096B 65 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:2 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 2131 cycles per-4096B 266 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:3 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 3885 cycles per-4096B 485 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:4 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 4520 cycles per-4096B 565 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:5 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 5604 cycles per-4096B 700 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:6 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 7125 cycles per-4096B 890 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:7 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 7883 cycles per-4096B 985 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:8 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 9364 cycles per-4096B 1170 cycles

Results from mm-vmscan-node-lru-v5r:
 Parallel-CPUs:1 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 421 cycles per-4096B 52 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:2 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 2236 cycles per-4096B 279 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:3 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 3408 cycles per-4096B 426 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:4 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 4687 cycles per-4096B 585 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:5 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 5972 cycles per-4096B 746 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:6 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 7349 cycles per-4096B 918 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:7 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 8436 cycles per-4096B 1054 cycles
 Parallel-CPUs:8 page order:3(32768B/x8) ave 9589 cycles per-4096B 1198 cycles

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  Author of http://www.iptv-analyzer.org
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/blob/master/kernel/mm/bench/page_bench03.c

 for ORDER in $(seq 0 5) ; do \
    for X in $(seq 1 8) ; do \
       modprobe page_bench03 page_order=$ORDER parallel_cpus=$X run_flags=$((2#100)); \
       rmmod page_bench03 ; dmesg | tail -n 3 | grep Parallel-CPUs ; \
    done; \
 done

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[PATCH 00/28] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths v3 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:00 +0200
  [PATCH 01/28] mm, page_alloc: Only check PageCompound for high-order pages Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 01/28] mm, page_alloc: Only check PageCompound for  high-order pages Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-25 11:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 01/28] mm, page_alloc: Only check PageCompound for  high-order pages Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-26 12:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 01/28] mm, page_alloc: Only check PageCompound for  high-order pages Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 21/28] mm, page_alloc: Avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 21/28] mm, page_alloc: Avoid looking up the first zone in  a zonelist twice Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 19:50 +0200
  [PATCH 04/28] mm, page_alloc: Inline zone_statistics Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 04/28] mm, page_alloc: Inline zone_statistics Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-25 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 15/28] mm, page_alloc: Move might_sleep_if check to the allocator slowpath Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 15/28] mm, page_alloc: Move might_sleep_if check to the  allocator slowpath Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 15:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 15/28] mm, page_alloc: Move might_sleep_if check to the  allocator slowpath Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-26 17:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 15/28] mm, page_alloc: Move might_sleep_if check to the  allocator slowpath Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 17:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 15/28] mm, page_alloc: Move might_sleep_if check to the  allocator slowpath Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-26 18:30 +0200
  [PATCH 19/28] mm, page_alloc: Reduce cost of fair zone allocation policy retry Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
  [PATCH 13/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove redundant check for empty zonelist Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    [PATCH 22/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove field from alloc_context Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    [PATCH 14/28] mm, page_alloc: Simplify last cpupid reset Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 14/28] mm, page_alloc: Simplify last cpupid reset Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 15:40 +0200
    [PATCH 20/28] mm, page_alloc: Shortcut watermark checks for order-0 pages Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    [PATCH 16/28] mm, page_alloc: Move __GFP_HARDWALL modifications out of the fastpath Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 16/28] mm, page_alloc: Move __GFP_HARDWALL modifications  out of the fastpath Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 16:20 +0200
    [PATCH 17/28] mm, page_alloc: Check once if a zone has isolated pageblocks Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 17/28] mm, page_alloc: Check once if a zone has isolated  pageblocks Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 16:30 +0200
    [PATCH 18/28] mm, page_alloc: Shorten the page allocator fast path Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 18/28] mm, page_alloc: Shorten the page allocator fast  path Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 17:30 +0200
    [PATCH 26/28] cpuset: use static key better and convert to new API Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 26/28] cpuset: use static key better and convert to new  API Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 22:00 +0200
    [PATCH 27/28] mm, page_alloc: Defer debugging checks of freed pages until a PCP drain Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 27/28] mm, page_alloc: Defer debugging checks of freed  pages until a PCP drain Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-27 14:00 +0200
        [PATCH 2/3] mm, page_alloc: pull out side effects from free_pages_check Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-27 14:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm, page_alloc: pull out side effects from  free_pages_check Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-27 14:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm, page_alloc: pull out side effects from  free_pages_check Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-27 15:10 +0200
        [PATCH 3/3] mm, page_alloc: don't duplicate code in free_pcp_prepare Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-27 14:10 +0200
        [PATCH 1/3] mm, page_alloc: un-inline the bad part of free_pages_check Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-27 14:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm, page_alloc: un-inline the bad part of  free_pages_check Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-27 14:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm, page_alloc: un-inline the bad part of  free_pages_check Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-27 15:00 +0200
    [PATCH 25/28] mm, page_alloc: Inline pageblock lookup in page free fast paths Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:20 +0200
    [PATCH 24/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary variable from free_pcppages_bulk Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:20 +0200
    [PATCH 23/28] mm, page_alloc: Check multiple page fields with a single branch Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 23/28] mm, page_alloc: Check multiple page fields with a  single branch Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 20:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 23/28] mm, page_alloc: Check multiple page fields with a  single branch Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-27 12:10 +0200
    [PATCH 28/28] mm, page_alloc: Defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 28/28] mm, page_alloc: Defer debugging checks of pages  allocated from the PCP Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-27 16:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 28/28] mm, page_alloc: Defer debugging checks of pages  allocated from the PCP Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-27 17:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 13/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove redundant check for empty  zonelist Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 14:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 13/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove redundant check for empty  zonelist Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-26 15:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 13/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove redundant check for empty  zonelist Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-04-26 21:20 +0200
  [PATCH 07/28] mm, page_alloc: Avoid unnecessary zone lookups during pageblock operations Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 07/28] mm, page_alloc: Avoid unnecessary zone lookups  during pageblock operations Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 02/28] mm, page_alloc: Use new PageAnonHead helper in the free page fast path Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 02/28] mm, page_alloc: Use new PageAnonHead helper in the  free page fast path Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-25 12:00 +0200
  [PATCH 11/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary initialisation in get_page_from_freelist Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
  [PATCH 06/28] mm, page_alloc: Use __dec_zone_state for order-0 page allocation Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 06/28] mm, page_alloc: Use __dec_zone_state for order-0  page allocation Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 13:30 +0200
  [PATCH 09/28] mm, page_alloc: Convert nr_fair_skipped to bool Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 09/28] mm, page_alloc: Convert nr_fair_skipped to bool Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 13:40 +0200
  [PATCH 08/28] mm, page_alloc: Convert alloc_flags to unsigned Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
  [PATCH 03/28] mm, page_alloc: Reduce branches in zone_statistics Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 03/28] mm, page_alloc: Reduce branches in zone_statistics Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-25 13:20 +0200
  [PATCH 05/28] mm, page_alloc: Inline the fast path of the zonelist iterator Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 05/28] mm, page_alloc: Inline the fast path of the  zonelist iterator Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-25 17:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 05/28] mm, page_alloc: Inline the fast path of the  zonelist iterator Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-26 12:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 05/28] mm, page_alloc: Inline the fast path of the  zonelist iterator Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 13:10 +0200
  [PATCH 10/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary local variable in get_page_from_freelist Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 11:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 10/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary local variable  in get_page_from_freelist Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 13:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/28] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths v3 Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> - 2016-04-15 14:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 00/28] Optimise page alloc/free fast paths v3 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-15 15:10 +0200
  [PATCH 12/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary initialisation from  __alloc_pages_nodemask() Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-04-16 09:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 12/28] mm, page_alloc: Remove unnecessary initialisation  from __alloc_pages_nodemask() Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-04-26 13:50 +0200

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