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mm/page_alloc: fetch the correct pcp buddy during bulk free
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Patch series "Follow-up on high-order PCP caching", v2.

Commit 44042b4 ("mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored
on the per-cpu lists") was primarily aimed at reducing the cost of SLUB
cache refills of high-order pages in two ways.  Firstly, zone lock
acquisitions was reduced and secondly, there were fewer buddy list
modifications.  This is a follow-up series fixing some issues that
became apparant after merging.

Patch 1 is a functional fix.  It's harmless but inefficient.

Patches 2-5 reduce the overhead of bulk freeing of PCP pages.  While the
overhead is small, it's cumulative and noticable when truncating large
files.  The changelog for patch 4 includes results of a microbench that
deletes large sparse files with data in page cache.  Sparse files were
used to eliminate filesystem overhead.

Patch 6 addresses issues with high-order PCP pages being stored on PCP
lists for too long.  Pages freed on a CPU potentially may not be quickly
reused and in some cases this can increase cache miss rates.  Details
are included in the changelog.

This patch (of 6):

free_pcppages_bulk() prefetches buddies about to be freed but the order
must also be passed in as PCP lists store multiple orders.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 44042b4 ("mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Lu <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Aaron Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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gormanm authored and torvalds committed Mar 22, 2022
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions mm/page_alloc.c
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Expand Up @@ -1429,10 +1429,10 @@ static bool bulkfree_pcp_prepare(struct page *page)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_VM */

static inline void prefetch_buddy(struct page *page)
static inline void prefetch_buddy(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
{
unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
unsigned long buddy_pfn = __find_buddy_pfn(pfn, 0);
unsigned long buddy_pfn = __find_buddy_pfn(pfn, order);
struct page *buddy = page + (buddy_pfn - pfn);

prefetch(buddy);
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* prefetch buddy for the first pcp->batch nr of pages.
*/
if (prefetch_nr) {
prefetch_buddy(page);
prefetch_buddy(page, order);
prefetch_nr--;
}
} while (count > 0 && --batch_free && !list_empty(list));
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