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| author | Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com> | 2017-09-08 16:12:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-09-08 18:26:47 -0700 |
| commit | 1d90ca897cb05cf38bd62f36756d219e02913b7d (patch) | |
| tree | d6c9783ea75c2e7c5637cf0dd4bb79d40378ce32 /include/linux | |
| parent | 3a321d2a3dde812142e06ab5c2f062ed860182a5 (diff) | |
mm: update NUMA counter threshold size
There is significant overhead in cache bouncing caused by zone counters
(NUMA associated counters) update in parallel in multi-threaded page
allocation (suggested by Dave Hansen).
This patch updates NUMA counter threshold to a fixed size of MAX_U16 - 2,
as a small threshold greatly increases the update frequency of the global
counter from local per cpu counter(suggested by Ying Huang).
The rationality is that these statistics counters don't affect the
kernel's decision, unlike other VM counters, so it's not a problem to use
a large threshold.
With this patchset, we see 31.3% drop of CPU cycles(537-->369) for per
single page allocation and reclaim on Jesper's page_bench03 benchmark.
Benchmark provided by Jesper D Brouer(increase loop times to 10000000):
https://github.com/netoptimizer/prototype-kernel/tree/master/kernel/mm/
bench
Threshold CPU cycles Throughput(88 threads)
32 799 241760478
64 640 301628829
125 537 358906028 <==> system by default (base)
256 468 412397590
512 428 450550704
4096 399 482520943
20000 394 489009617
30000 395 488017817
65533 369(-31.3%) 521661345(+45.3%) <==> with this patchset
N/A 342(-36.3%) 562900157(+56.8%) <==> disable zone_statistics
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503568801-21305-3-git-send-email-kemi.wang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index e65d91c02e30..356a814e7c8e 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -282,8 +282,7 @@ struct per_cpu_pageset { struct per_cpu_pages pcp; #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA s8 expire; - s8 numa_stat_threshold; - s8 vm_numa_stat_diff[NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS]; + u16 vm_numa_stat_diff[NR_VM_NUMA_STAT_ITEMS]; #endif #ifdef CONFIG_SMP s8 stat_threshold; |