In commit f26b3fa046 ("mm/page_alloc: limit number of high-order pages
on PCP during bulk free"), the PCP (Per-CPU Pageset) will be drained when
PCP is mostly used for high-order pages freeing to improve the cache-hot
pages reusing between page allocating and freeing CPUs.
On system with small per-CPU data cache slice, pages shouldn't be cached
before draining to guarantee cache-hot. But on a system with large
per-CPU data cache slice, some pages can be cached before draining to
reduce zone lock contention.
So, in this patch, instead of draining without any caching, "pcp->batch"
pages will be cached in PCP before draining if the size of the per-CPU
data cache slice is more than "3 * batch".
In theory, if the size of per-CPU data cache slice is more than "2 *
batch", we can reuse cache-hot pages between CPUs. But considering the
other usage of cache (code, other data accessing, etc.), "3 * batch" is
used.
Note: "3 * batch" is chosen to make sure the optimization works on recent
x86_64 server CPUs. If you want to increase it, please check whether it
breaks the optimization.
On a 2-socket Intel server with 128 logical CPU, with the patch, the
network bandwidth of the UNIX (AF_UNIX) test case of lmbench test suite
with 16-pair processes increase 70.5%. The cycles% of the spinlock
contention (mostly for zone lock) decreases from 46.1% to 21.3%. The
number of PCP draining for high order pages freeing (free_high) decreases
89.9%. The cache miss rate keeps 0.2%.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231016053002.756205-4-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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