From 3b12e7e97938424de2bb1b95ba0bd6a49bad39f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:42:18 -0700 Subject: mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch freed When a task is freeing a large number of order-0 pages, it may acquire the zone->lock multiple times freeing pages in batches. This may unnecessarily contend on the zone lock when freeing very large number of pages. This patch adapts the size of the batch based on the recent pattern to scale the batch size for subsequent frees. As the machines I used were not large enough to test this are not large enough to illustrate a problem, a debugging patch shows patterns like the following (slightly editted for clarity) Baseline vanilla kernel time-unmap-14426 [...] free_pcppages_bulk: free 63 count 378 high 378 time-unmap-14426 [...] free_pcppages_bulk: free 63 count 378 high 378 time-unmap-14426 [...] free_pcppages_bulk: free 63 count 378 high 378 time-unmap-14426 [...] free_pcppages_bulk: free 63 count 378 high 378 time-unmap-14426 [...] free_pcppages_bulk: free 63 count 378 high 378 With patches time-unmap-7724 [...] free_pcppages_bulk: free 126 count 814 high 814 time-unmap-7724 [...] free_pcppages_bulk: free 252 count 814 high 814 time-unmap-7724 [...] free_pcppages_bulk: free 504 count 814 high 814 time-unmap-7724 [...] free_pcppages_bulk: free 751 count 814 high 814 time-unmap-7724 [...] free_pcppages_bulk: free 751 count 814 high 814 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525080119.5455-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 7937a1d1d166..0a86b2890a16 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -343,8 +343,9 @@ struct per_cpu_pages { int count; /* number of pages in the list */ int high; /* high watermark, emptying needed */ int batch; /* chunk size for buddy add/remove */ + short free_factor; /* batch scaling factor during free */ #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - int expire; /* When 0, remote pagesets are drained */ + short expire; /* When 0, remote pagesets are drained */ #endif /* Lists of pages, one per migrate type stored on the pcp-lists */ -- cgit v1.2.3