From 23955622ff8d231bcc9650b3d06583f117a6e3ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shaohua Li Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:47:11 -0700 Subject: swap: add block io poll in swapin path For fast flash disk, async IO could introduce overhead because of context switch. block-mq now supports IO poll, which improves performance and latency a lot. swapin is a good place to use this technique, because the task is waiting for the swapin page to continue execution. In my virtual machine, directly read 4k data from a NVMe with iopoll is about 60% better than that without poll. With iopoll support in swapin patch, my microbenchmark (a task does random memory write) is about 10%~25% faster. CPU utilization increases a lot though, 2x and even 3x CPU utilization. This will depend on disk speed. While iopoll in swapin isn't intended for all usage cases, it's a win for latency sensistive workloads with high speed swap disk. block layer has knob to control poll in runtime. If poll isn't enabled in block layer, there should be no noticeable change in swapin. I got a chance to run the same test in a NVMe with DRAM as the media. In simple fio IO test, blkpoll boosts 50% performance in single thread test and ~20% in 8 threads test. So this is the base line. In above swap test, blkpoll boosts ~27% performance in single thread test. blkpoll uses 2x CPU time though. If we enable hybid polling, the performance gain has very slight drop but CPU time is only 50% worse than that without blkpoll. Also we can adjust parameter of hybid poll, with it, the CPU time penality is reduced further. In 8 threads test, blkpoll doesn't help though. The performance is similar to that without blkpoll, but cpu utilization is similar too. There is lock contention in swap path. The cpu time spending on blkpoll isn't high. So overall, blkpoll swapin isn't worse than that without it. The swapin readahead might read several pages in in the same time and form a big IO request. Since the IO will take longer time, it doesn't make sense to do poll, so the patch only does iopoll for single page swapin. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/070c3c3e40b711e7b1390002c991e86a-b5408f0@7511894063d3764ff01ea8111f5a004d7dd700ed078797c204a24e620ddb965c Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Cc: Tim Chen Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/swapfile.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/swapfile.c') diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c index 811d90e1c929..6ba4aab2db0b 100644 --- a/mm/swapfile.c +++ b/mm/swapfile.c @@ -1868,7 +1868,7 @@ int try_to_unuse(unsigned int type, bool frontswap, swap_map = &si->swap_map[i]; entry = swp_entry(type, i); page = read_swap_cache_async(entry, - GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, NULL, 0); + GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, NULL, 0, false); if (!page) { /* * Either swap_duplicate() failed because entry -- cgit v1.2.3