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[PATCH 0/4] Use per-cpu allocator for !irq requests and prepare for a bulk allocator v5

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  [PATCH 0/4] Use per-cpu allocator for !irq requests and prepare for a bulk allocator v5 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-01-23 16:40 +0100
    [PATCH 1/4] mm, page_alloc: Split buffered_rmqueue Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-01-23 16:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm, page_alloc: Split buffered_rmqueue Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-01-24 11:30 +0100
        [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: Split buffered_rmqueue -fix Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-01-24 12:30 +0100
    [PATCH 3/4] mm, page_alloc: Drain per-cpu pages from workqueue context Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-01-23 16:50 +0100
    [PATCH 4/4] mm, page_alloc: Only use per-cpu allocator for irq-safe requests Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2017-01-23 16:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm, page_alloc: Only use per-cpu allocator for  irq-safe requests Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-01-24 14:20 +0100

#1565064 — [PATCH 0/4] Use per-cpu allocator for !irq requests and prepare for a bulk allocator v5

This is rebased on top of mmotm to handle collisions with Vlastimil's
series on cpusets and premature OOMs.

Changelog since v4
o Protect drain with get_online_cpus
o Micro-optimisation of stat updates
o Avoid double preparing a page free

Changelog since v3
o Debugging check in allocation path
o Make it harder to use the free path incorrectly
o Use preempt-safe stats counter
o Do not use IPIs to drain the per-cpu allocator

Changelog since v2
o Add ack's and benchmark data
o Rebase to 4.10-rc3

Changelog since v1
o Remove a scheduler point from the allocation path
o Finalise the bulk allocator and test it

This series is motivated by a conversation led by Jesper Dangaard Brouer at
the last LSF/MM proposing a generic page pool for DMA-coherent pages. Part
of his motivation was due to the overhead of allocating multiple order-0
that led some drivers to use high-order allocations and splitting them. This
is very slow in some cases.

The first two patches in this series restructure the page allocator such
that it is relatively easy to introduce an order-0 bulk page allocator.
A patch exists to do that and has been handed over to Jesper until an
in-kernel users is created. The third patch prevents the per-cpu allocator
being drained from IPI context as that can potentially corrupt the list
after patch four is merged. The final patch alters the per-cpu alloctor
to make it exclusive to !irq requests. This cuts allocation/free overhead
by roughly 30%.

Performance tests from both Jesper and I are included in the patch.

 mm/page_alloc.c | 282 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 181 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)

-- 
2.11.0

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#1565065 — [PATCH 1/4] mm, page_alloc: Split buffered_rmqueue

buffered_rmqueue removes a page from a given zone and uses the per-cpu
list for order-0. This is fine but a hypothetical caller that wanted
multiple order-0 pages has to disable/reenable interrupts multiple
times. This patch structures buffere_rmqueue such that it's relatively
easy to build a bulk order-0 page allocator. There is no functional
change.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 55496b178f05..c075831c3a1a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2600,73 +2600,103 @@ static inline void zone_statistics(struct zone *preferred_zone, struct zone *z)
 #endif
 }
 
+/* Remove page from the per-cpu list, caller must protect the list */
+static struct page *__rmqueue_pcplist(struct zone *zone, int migratetype,
+			bool cold, struct per_cpu_pages *pcp,
+			struct list_head *list)
+{
+	struct page *page;
+
+	do {
+		if (list_empty(list)) {
+			pcp->count += rmqueue_bulk(zone, 0,
+					pcp->batch, list,
+					migratetype, cold);
+			if (unlikely(list_empty(list)))
+				return NULL;
+		}
+
+		if (cold)
+			page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, lru);
+		else
+			page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, lru);
+
+		list_del(&page->lru);
+		pcp->count--;
+	} while (check_new_pcp(page));
+
+	return page;
+}
+
+/* Lock and remove page from the per-cpu list */
+static struct page *rmqueue_pcplist(struct zone *preferred_zone,
+			struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
+			gfp_t gfp_flags, int migratetype)
+{
+	struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
+	struct list_head *list;
+	bool cold = ((gfp_flags & __GFP_COLD) != 0);
+	struct page *page;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
+	list = &pcp->lists[migratetype];
+	page = __rmqueue_pcplist(zone,  migratetype, cold, pcp, list);
+	if (page) {
+		__count_zid_vm_events(PGALLOC, page_zonenum(page), 1 << order);
+		zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone);
+	}
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	return page;
+}
+
 /*
  * Allocate a page from the given zone. Use pcplists for order-0 allocations.
  */
 static inline
-struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
+struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 			struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
 			gfp_t gfp_flags, unsigned int alloc_flags,
 			int migratetype)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct page *page;
-	bool cold = ((gfp_flags & __GFP_COLD) != 0);
 
 	if (likely(order == 0)) {
-		struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
-		struct list_head *list;
-
-		local_irq_save(flags);
-		do {
-			pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
-			list = &pcp->lists[migratetype];
-			if (list_empty(list)) {
-				pcp->count += rmqueue_bulk(zone, 0,
-						pcp->batch, list,
-						migratetype, cold);
-				if (unlikely(list_empty(list)))
-					goto failed;
-			}
-
-			if (cold)
-				page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, lru);
-			else
-				page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, lru);
-
-			list_del(&page->lru);
-			pcp->count--;
+		page = rmqueue_pcplist(preferred_zone, zone, order,
+				gfp_flags, migratetype);
+		goto out;
+	}
 
-		} while (check_new_pcp(page));
-	} else {
-		/*
-		 * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
-		 * allocate greater than order-1 page units with __GFP_NOFAIL.
-		 */
-		WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1));
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
+	/*
+	 * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
+	 * allocate greater than order-1 page units with __GFP_NOFAIL.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1));
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
 
-		do {
-			page = NULL;
-			if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER) {
-				page = __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC);
-				if (page)
-					trace_mm_page_alloc_zone_locked(page, order, migratetype);
-			}
-			if (!page)
-				page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
-		} while (page && check_new_pages(page, order));
-		spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
+	do {
+		page = NULL;
+		if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER) {
+			page = __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC);
+			if (page)
+				trace_mm_page_alloc_zone_locked(page, order, migratetype);
+		}
 		if (!page)
-			goto failed;
-		__mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, -(1 << order),
-					  get_pcppage_migratetype(page));
-	}
+			page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
+	} while (page && check_new_pages(page, order));
+	spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
+	if (!page)
+		goto failed;
+	__mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, -(1 << order),
+				  get_pcppage_migratetype(page));
 
 	__count_zid_vm_events(PGALLOC, page_zonenum(page), 1 << order);
 	zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone);
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
+out:
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(bad_range(zone, page), page);
 	return page;
 
@@ -2972,7 +3002,7 @@ get_page_from_freelist(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order, int alloc_flags,
 		}
 
 try_this_zone:
-		page = buffered_rmqueue(ac->preferred_zoneref->zone, zone, order,
+		page = rmqueue(ac->preferred_zoneref->zone, zone, order,
 				gfp_mask, alloc_flags, ac->migratetype);
 		if (page) {
 			prep_new_page(page, order, gfp_mask, alloc_flags);
-- 
2.11.0

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#1565765 — Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm, page_alloc: Split buffered_rmqueue

On 01/23/2017 04:39 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> buffered_rmqueue removes a page from a given zone and uses the per-cpu
> list for order-0. This is fine but a hypothetical caller that wanted
> multiple order-0 pages has to disable/reenable interrupts multiple
> times. This patch structures buffere_rmqueue such that it's relatively
> easy to build a bulk order-0 page allocator. There is no functional
> change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

But I think you need a fix on top

[...]

> -struct page *buffered_rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
> +struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
>  			struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
>  			gfp_t gfp_flags, unsigned int alloc_flags,
>  			int migratetype)
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	struct page *page;
> -	bool cold = ((gfp_flags & __GFP_COLD) != 0);
>  
>  	if (likely(order == 0)) {
> -		struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
> -		struct list_head *list;
> -
> -		local_irq_save(flags);
> -		do {
> -			pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
> -			list = &pcp->lists[migratetype];
> -			if (list_empty(list)) {
> -				pcp->count += rmqueue_bulk(zone, 0,
> -						pcp->batch, list,
> -						migratetype, cold);
> -				if (unlikely(list_empty(list)))
> -					goto failed;
> -			}
> -
> -			if (cold)
> -				page = list_last_entry(list, struct page, lru);
> -			else
> -				page = list_first_entry(list, struct page, lru);
> -
> -			list_del(&page->lru);
> -			pcp->count--;
> +		page = rmqueue_pcplist(preferred_zone, zone, order,
> +				gfp_flags, migratetype);
> +		goto out;

page might be NULL here...

> +	}
>  
> -		} while (check_new_pcp(page));
> -	} else {
> -		/*
> -		 * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
> -		 * allocate greater than order-1 page units with __GFP_NOFAIL.
> -		 */
> -		WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1));
> -		spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
> +	/*
> +	 * We most definitely don't want callers attempting to
> +	 * allocate greater than order-1 page units with __GFP_NOFAIL.
> +	 */
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_flags & __GFP_NOFAIL) && (order > 1));
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
>  
> -		do {
> -			page = NULL;
> -			if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER) {
> -				page = __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC);
> -				if (page)
> -					trace_mm_page_alloc_zone_locked(page, order, migratetype);
> -			}
> -			if (!page)
> -				page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
> -		} while (page && check_new_pages(page, order));
> -		spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
> +	do {
> +		page = NULL;
> +		if (alloc_flags & ALLOC_HARDER) {
> +			page = __rmqueue_smallest(zone, order, MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC);
> +			if (page)
> +				trace_mm_page_alloc_zone_locked(page, order, migratetype);
> +		}
>  		if (!page)
> -			goto failed;
> -		__mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, -(1 << order),
> -					  get_pcppage_migratetype(page));
> -	}
> +			page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
> +	} while (page && check_new_pages(page, order));
> +	spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
> +	if (!page)
> +		goto failed;
> +	__mod_zone_freepage_state(zone, -(1 << order),
> +				  get_pcppage_migratetype(page));
>  
>  	__count_zid_vm_events(PGALLOC, page_zonenum(page), 1 << order);
>  	zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone);
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  
> +out:
>  	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(bad_range(zone, page), page);

... and then this explodes?
I guess the easiest fix is change the condition to
"page && bad_range(...)"

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#1565792 — [PATCH] mm, page_alloc: Split buffered_rmqueue -fix

Vlastimil Babka pointed out that a failed per-cpu refill on a kernel with
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM may blow up on a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE. This patch is a fix
to the mmotm patch mm-page_alloc-split-buffered_rmqueue.patch

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index c075831c3a1a..5a04636ccc05 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2697,7 +2697,7 @@ struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
 out:
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(bad_range(zone, page), page);
+	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page && bad_range(zone, page), page);
 	return page;
 
 failed:

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#1565073 — [PATCH 3/4] mm, page_alloc: Drain per-cpu pages from workqueue context

The per-cpu page allocator can be drained immediately via drain_all_pages()
which sends IPIs to every CPU. In the next patch, the per-cpu allocator
will only be used for interrupt-safe allocations which prevents draining
it from IPI context. This patch uses workqueues to drain the per-cpu
lists instead.

This is slower but no slowdown during intensive reclaim was measured and
the paths that use drain_all_pages() are not that sensitive to performance.
This is particularly true as the path would only be triggered when reclaim
is failing. It also makes a some sense to avoid storming a machine with IPIs
when it's under memory pressure. Arguably, it should be further adjusted
so that only one caller at a time is draining pages but it's beyond the
scope of the current patch.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index dd2ded8b416f..1acdfd80031a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2339,19 +2339,21 @@ void drain_local_pages(struct zone *zone)
 		drain_pages(cpu);
 }
 
+static void drain_local_pages_wq(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	drain_local_pages(NULL);
+}
+
 /*
  * Spill all the per-cpu pages from all CPUs back into the buddy allocator.
  *
  * When zone parameter is non-NULL, spill just the single zone's pages.
  *
- * Note that this code is protected against sending an IPI to an offline
- * CPU but does not guarantee sending an IPI to newly hotplugged CPUs:
- * on_each_cpu_mask() blocks hotplug and won't talk to offlined CPUs but
- * nothing keeps CPUs from showing up after we populated the cpumask and
- * before the call to on_each_cpu_mask().
+ * Note that this can be extremely slow as the draining happens in a workqueue.
  */
 void drain_all_pages(struct zone *zone)
 {
+	struct work_struct __percpu *works;
 	int cpu;
 
 	/*
@@ -2360,6 +2362,17 @@ void drain_all_pages(struct zone *zone)
 	 */
 	static cpumask_t cpus_with_pcps;
 
+	/* Workqueues cannot recurse */
+	if (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER)
+		return;
+
+	/*
+	 * As this can be called from reclaim context, do not reenter reclaim.
+	 * An allocation failure can be handled, it's simply slower
+	 */
+	get_online_cpus();
+	works = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct work_struct, GFP_ATOMIC);
+
 	/*
 	 * We don't care about racing with CPU hotplug event
 	 * as offline notification will cause the notified
@@ -2390,8 +2403,25 @@ void drain_all_pages(struct zone *zone)
 		else
 			cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, &cpus_with_pcps);
 	}
-	on_each_cpu_mask(&cpus_with_pcps, (smp_call_func_t) drain_local_pages,
-								zone, 1);
+
+	if (works) {
+		for_each_cpu(cpu, &cpus_with_pcps) {
+			struct work_struct *work = per_cpu_ptr(works, cpu);
+			INIT_WORK(work, drain_local_pages_wq);
+			schedule_work_on(cpu, work);
+		}
+		for_each_cpu(cpu, &cpus_with_pcps)
+			flush_work(per_cpu_ptr(works, cpu));
+	} else {
+		for_each_cpu(cpu, &cpus_with_pcps) {
+			struct work_struct work;
+
+			INIT_WORK(&work, drain_local_pages_wq);
+			schedule_work_on(cpu, &work);
+			flush_work(&work);
+		}
+	}
+	put_online_cpus();
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIBERNATION
-- 
2.11.0

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#1565076 — [PATCH 4/4] mm, page_alloc: Only use per-cpu allocator for irq-safe requests

Many workloads that allocate pages are not handling an interrupt at a
time. As allocation requests may be from IRQ context, it's necessary to
disable/enable IRQs for every page allocation. This cost is the bulk
of the free path but also a significant percentage of the allocation
path.

This patch alters the locking and checks such that only irq-safe allocation
requests use the per-cpu allocator. All others acquire the irq-safe
zone->lock and allocate from the buddy allocator. It relies on disabling
preemption to safely access the per-cpu structures. It could be slightly
modified to avoid soft IRQs using it but it's not clear it's worthwhile.

This modification may slow allocations from IRQ context slightly but the main
gain from the per-cpu allocator is that it scales better for allocations
from multiple contexts. There is an implicit assumption that intensive
allocations from IRQ contexts on multiple CPUs from a single NUMA node are
rare and that the fast majority of scaling issues are encountered in !IRQ
contexts such as page faulting. It's worth noting that this patch is not
required for a bulk page allocator but it significantly reduces the overhead.

The following is results from a page allocator micro-benchmark. Only
order-0 is interesting as higher orders do not use the per-cpu allocator

                                          4.10.0-rc2                 4.10.0-rc2
                                             vanilla               irqsafe-v1r5
Amean    alloc-odr0-1               287.15 (  0.00%)           219.00 ( 23.73%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-2               221.23 (  0.00%)           183.23 ( 17.18%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-4               187.00 (  0.00%)           151.38 ( 19.05%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-8               167.54 (  0.00%)           132.77 ( 20.75%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-16              156.00 (  0.00%)           123.00 ( 21.15%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-32              149.00 (  0.00%)           118.31 ( 20.60%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-64              138.77 (  0.00%)           116.00 ( 16.41%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-128             145.00 (  0.00%)           118.00 ( 18.62%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-256             136.15 (  0.00%)           125.00 (  8.19%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-512             147.92 (  0.00%)           121.77 ( 17.68%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-1024            147.23 (  0.00%)           126.15 ( 14.32%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-2048            155.15 (  0.00%)           129.92 ( 16.26%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-4096            164.00 (  0.00%)           136.77 ( 16.60%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-8192            166.92 (  0.00%)           138.08 ( 17.28%)
Amean    alloc-odr0-16384           159.00 (  0.00%)           138.00 ( 13.21%)
Amean    free-odr0-1                165.00 (  0.00%)            89.00 ( 46.06%)
Amean    free-odr0-2                113.00 (  0.00%)            63.00 ( 44.25%)
Amean    free-odr0-4                 99.00 (  0.00%)            54.00 ( 45.45%)
Amean    free-odr0-8                 88.00 (  0.00%)            47.38 ( 46.15%)
Amean    free-odr0-16                83.00 (  0.00%)            46.00 ( 44.58%)
Amean    free-odr0-32                80.00 (  0.00%)            44.38 ( 44.52%)
Amean    free-odr0-64                72.62 (  0.00%)            43.00 ( 40.78%)
Amean    free-odr0-128               78.00 (  0.00%)            42.00 ( 46.15%)
Amean    free-odr0-256               80.46 (  0.00%)            57.00 ( 29.16%)
Amean    free-odr0-512               96.38 (  0.00%)            64.69 ( 32.88%)
Amean    free-odr0-1024             107.31 (  0.00%)            72.54 ( 32.40%)
Amean    free-odr0-2048             108.92 (  0.00%)            78.08 ( 28.32%)
Amean    free-odr0-4096             113.38 (  0.00%)            82.23 ( 27.48%)
Amean    free-odr0-8192             112.08 (  0.00%)            82.85 ( 26.08%)
Amean    free-odr0-16384            110.38 (  0.00%)            81.92 ( 25.78%)
Amean    total-odr0-1               452.15 (  0.00%)           308.00 ( 31.88%)
Amean    total-odr0-2               334.23 (  0.00%)           246.23 ( 26.33%)
Amean    total-odr0-4               286.00 (  0.00%)           205.38 ( 28.19%)
Amean    total-odr0-8               255.54 (  0.00%)           180.15 ( 29.50%)
Amean    total-odr0-16              239.00 (  0.00%)           169.00 ( 29.29%)
Amean    total-odr0-32              229.00 (  0.00%)           162.69 ( 28.96%)
Amean    total-odr0-64              211.38 (  0.00%)           159.00 ( 24.78%)
Amean    total-odr0-128             223.00 (  0.00%)           160.00 ( 28.25%)
Amean    total-odr0-256             216.62 (  0.00%)           182.00 ( 15.98%)
Amean    total-odr0-512             244.31 (  0.00%)           186.46 ( 23.68%)
Amean    total-odr0-1024            254.54 (  0.00%)           198.69 ( 21.94%)
Amean    total-odr0-2048            264.08 (  0.00%)           208.00 ( 21.24%)
Amean    total-odr0-4096            277.38 (  0.00%)           219.00 ( 21.05%)
Amean    total-odr0-8192            279.00 (  0.00%)           220.92 ( 20.82%)
Amean    total-odr0-16384           269.38 (  0.00%)           219.92 ( 18.36%)

This is the alloc, free and total overhead of allocating order-0 pages in
batches of 1 page up to 16384 pages. Avoiding disabling/enabling overhead
massively reduces overhead. Alloc overhead is roughly reduced by 14-20% in
most cases. The free path is reduced by 26-46% and the total reduction
is significant.

Many users require zeroing of pages from the page allocator which is the
vast cost of allocation. Hence, the impact on a basic page faulting benchmark
is not that significant

                              4.10.0-rc2            4.10.0-rc2
                                 vanilla          irqsafe-v1r5
Hmean    page_test   656632.98 (  0.00%)   675536.13 (  2.88%)
Hmean    brk_test   3845502.67 (  0.00%)  3867186.94 (  0.56%)
Stddev   page_test    10543.29 (  0.00%)     4104.07 ( 61.07%)
Stddev   brk_test     33472.36 (  0.00%)    15538.39 ( 53.58%)
CoeffVar page_test        1.61 (  0.00%)        0.61 ( 62.15%)
CoeffVar brk_test         0.87 (  0.00%)        0.40 ( 53.84%)
Max      page_test   666513.33 (  0.00%)   678640.00 (  1.82%)
Max      brk_test   3882800.00 (  0.00%)  3887008.66 (  0.11%)

This is from aim9 and the most notable outcome is that fault variability
is reduced by the patch. The headline improvement is small as the overall
fault cost, zeroing, page table insertion etc dominate relative to
disabling/enabling IRQs in the per-cpu allocator.

Similarly, little benefit was seen on networking benchmarks both localhost
and between physical server/clients where other costs dominate. It's
possible that this will only be noticable on very high speed networks.

Jesper Dangaard Brouer independently tested
this with a separate microbenchmark from
https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/bench

Micro-benchmarked with [1] page_bench02:
 modprobe page_bench02 page_order=0 run_flags=$((2#010)) loops=$((10**8)); \
  rmmod page_bench02 ; dmesg --notime | tail -n 4

Compared to baseline: 213 cycles(tsc) 53.417 ns
 - against this     : 184 cycles(tsc) 46.056 ns
 - Saving           : -29 cycles
 - Very close to expected 27 cycles saving [see below [2]]

Micro benchmarking via time_bench_sample[3], we get the cost of these
operations:

 time_bench: Type:for_loop                 Per elem: 0 cycles(tsc) 0.232 ns (step:0)
 time_bench: Type:spin_lock_unlock         Per elem: 33 cycles(tsc) 8.334 ns (step:0)
 time_bench: Type:spin_lock_unlock_irqsave Per elem: 62 cycles(tsc) 15.607 ns (step:0)
 time_bench: Type:irqsave_before_lock      Per elem: 57 cycles(tsc) 14.344 ns (step:0)
 time_bench: Type:spin_lock_unlock_irq     Per elem: 34 cycles(tsc) 8.560 ns (step:0)
 time_bench: Type:simple_irq_disable_before_lock Per elem: 37 cycles(tsc) 9.289 ns (step:0)
 time_bench: Type:local_BH_disable_enable  Per elem: 19 cycles(tsc) 4.920 ns (step:0)
 time_bench: Type:local_IRQ_disable_enable Per elem: 7 cycles(tsc) 1.864 ns (step:0)
 time_bench: Type:local_irq_save_restore   Per elem: 38 cycles(tsc) 9.665 ns (step:0)
 [Mel's patch removes a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^]            ^^^^^^^^^ expected saving - preempt cost
 time_bench: Type:preempt_disable_enable   Per elem: 11 cycles(tsc) 2.794 ns (step:0)
 [adds a preempt  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^]            ^^^^^^^^^ adds this cost
 time_bench: Type:funcion_call_cost        Per elem: 6 cycles(tsc) 1.689 ns (step:0)
 time_bench: Type:func_ptr_call_cost       Per elem: 11 cycles(tsc) 2.767 ns (step:0)
 time_bench: Type:page_alloc_put           Per elem: 211 cycles(tsc) 52.803 ns (step:0)

Thus, expected improvement is: 38-11 = 27 cycles.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 1acdfd80031a..ea2b96b2c741 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1085,10 +1085,10 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
 {
 	int migratetype = 0;
 	int batch_free = 0;
-	unsigned long nr_scanned;
+	unsigned long nr_scanned, flags;
 	bool isolated_pageblocks;
 
-	spin_lock(&zone->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
 	isolated_pageblocks = has_isolate_pageblock(zone);
 	nr_scanned = node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED);
 	if (nr_scanned)
@@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
 			trace_mm_page_pcpu_drain(page, 0, mt);
 		} while (--count && --batch_free && !list_empty(list));
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
 }
 
 static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone,
@@ -1145,8 +1145,9 @@ static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone,
 				unsigned int order,
 				int migratetype)
 {
-	unsigned long nr_scanned;
-	spin_lock(&zone->lock);
+	unsigned long nr_scanned, flags;
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
+	__count_vm_events(PGFREE, 1 << order);
 	nr_scanned = node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED);
 	if (nr_scanned)
 		__mod_node_page_state(zone->zone_pgdat, NR_PAGES_SCANNED, -nr_scanned);
@@ -1156,7 +1157,7 @@ static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone,
 		migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
 	}
 	__free_one_page(page, pfn, zone, order, migratetype);
-	spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
 }
 
 static void __meminit __init_single_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
@@ -1234,7 +1235,6 @@ void __meminit reserve_bootmem_region(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
 
 static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
 	int migratetype;
 	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
 
@@ -1242,10 +1242,7 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 		return;
 
 	migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
-	local_irq_save(flags);
-	__count_vm_events(PGFREE, 1 << order);
 	free_one_page(page_zone(page), page, pfn, order, migratetype);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
 static void __init __free_pages_boot_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
@@ -2217,8 +2214,9 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
 			int migratetype, bool cold)
 {
 	int i, alloced = 0;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock(&zone->lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags);
 	for (i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
 		struct page *page = __rmqueue(zone, order, migratetype);
 		if (unlikely(page == NULL))
@@ -2254,7 +2252,7 @@ static int rmqueue_bulk(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
 	 * pages added to the pcp list.
 	 */
 	__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, -(i << order));
-	spin_unlock(&zone->lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags);
 	return alloced;
 }
 
@@ -2472,17 +2470,20 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, bool cold)
 {
 	struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
 	struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
-	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
 	int migratetype;
 
+	if (in_interrupt()) {
+		__free_pages_ok(page, 0);
+		return;
+	}
+
 	if (!free_pcp_prepare(page))
 		return;
 
 	migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn);
 	set_pcppage_migratetype(page, migratetype);
-	local_irq_save(flags);
-	__count_vm_event(PGFREE);
+	preempt_disable();
 
 	/*
 	 * We only track unmovable, reclaimable and movable on pcp lists.
@@ -2499,6 +2500,7 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, bool cold)
 		migratetype = MIGRATE_MOVABLE;
 	}
 
+	__count_vm_event(PGFREE);
 	pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
 	if (!cold)
 		list_add(&page->lru, &pcp->lists[migratetype]);
@@ -2512,7 +2514,7 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, bool cold)
 	}
 
 out:
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	preempt_enable_no_resched();
 }
 
 /*
@@ -2637,6 +2639,8 @@ static struct page *__rmqueue_pcplist(struct zone *zone, int migratetype,
 {
 	struct page *page;
 
+	VM_BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
+
 	do {
 		if (list_empty(list)) {
 			pcp->count += rmqueue_bulk(zone, 0,
@@ -2667,9 +2671,8 @@ static struct page *rmqueue_pcplist(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 	struct list_head *list;
 	bool cold = ((gfp_flags & __GFP_COLD) != 0);
 	struct page *page;
-	unsigned long flags;
 
-	local_irq_save(flags);
+	preempt_disable();
 	pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
 	list = &pcp->lists[migratetype];
 	page = __rmqueue_pcplist(zone,  migratetype, cold, pcp, list);
@@ -2677,7 +2680,7 @@ static struct page *rmqueue_pcplist(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 		__count_zid_vm_events(PGALLOC, page_zonenum(page), 1 << order);
 		zone_statistics(preferred_zone, zone);
 	}
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	preempt_enable_no_resched();
 	return page;
 }
 
@@ -2693,7 +2696,7 @@ struct page *rmqueue(struct zone *preferred_zone,
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct page *page;
 
-	if (likely(order == 0)) {
+	if (likely(order == 0) && !in_interrupt()) {
 		page = rmqueue_pcplist(preferred_zone, zone, order,
 				gfp_flags, migratetype);
 		goto out;
-- 
2.11.0

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#1565842 — Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm, page_alloc: Only use per-cpu allocator for irq-safe requests

On 01/23/2017 04:39 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Many workloads that allocate pages are not handling an interrupt at a
> time. As allocation requests may be from IRQ context, it's necessary to
> disable/enable IRQs for every page allocation. This cost is the bulk
> of the free path but also a significant percentage of the allocation
> path.
> 
> This patch alters the locking and checks such that only irq-safe allocation
> requests use the per-cpu allocator. All others acquire the irq-safe
> zone->lock and allocate from the buddy allocator. It relies on disabling
> preemption to safely access the per-cpu structures. It could be slightly
> modified to avoid soft IRQs using it but it's not clear it's worthwhile.
> 
> This modification may slow allocations from IRQ context slightly but the main
> gain from the per-cpu allocator is that it scales better for allocations
> from multiple contexts. There is an implicit assumption that intensive
> allocations from IRQ contexts on multiple CPUs from a single NUMA node are
> rare and that the fast majority of scaling issues are encountered in !IRQ
> contexts such as page faulting. It's worth noting that this patch is not
> required for a bulk page allocator but it significantly reduces the overhead.
> 
[...]

> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

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