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authorVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>2013-09-12 01:22:32 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-12 02:58:00 +0400
commit56afe477df3cbbcd656682d0355ef7d9eb8bdd81 (patch)
tree8955c59c624d0790da97f44fad3ce5a45dbad76d /mm/mlock.c
parent1ebb7cc6a58321a4b22c4c9097b4651b0ab859d0 (diff)
downloadlinux-56afe477df3cbbcd656682d0355ef7d9eb8bdd81.tar.xz
mm: munlock: bypass per-cpu pvec for putback_lru_page
After introducing batching by pagevecs into munlock_vma_range(), we can further improve performance by bypassing the copying into per-cpu pagevec and the get_page/put_page pair associated with that. Instead we perform LRU putback directly from our pagevec. However, this is possible only for single-mapped pages that are evictable after munlock. Unevictable pages require rechecking after putting on the unevictable list, so for those we fallback to putback_lru_page(), hich handles that. After this patch, a 13% speedup was measured for munlocking a 56GB large memory area with THP disabled. [akpm@linux-foundation.org:clarify comment] Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mlock.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mlock.c73
1 files changed, 69 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index b1a7c8007c89..abdc612b042d 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -227,6 +227,52 @@ static int __mlock_posix_error_return(long retval)
}
/*
+ * Prepare page for fast batched LRU putback via putback_lru_evictable_pagevec()
+ *
+ * The fast path is available only for evictable pages with single mapping.
+ * Then we can bypass the per-cpu pvec and get better performance.
+ * when mapcount > 1 we need try_to_munlock() which can fail.
+ * when !page_evictable(), we need the full redo logic of putback_lru_page to
+ * avoid leaving evictable page in unevictable list.
+ *
+ * In case of success, @page is added to @pvec and @pgrescued is incremented
+ * in case that the page was previously unevictable. @page is also unlocked.
+ */
+static bool __putback_lru_fast_prepare(struct page *page, struct pagevec *pvec,
+ int *pgrescued)
+{
+ VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
+ VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+
+ if (page_mapcount(page) <= 1 && page_evictable(page)) {
+ pagevec_add(pvec, page);
+ if (TestClearPageUnevictable(page))
+ (*pgrescued)++;
+ unlock_page(page);
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Putback multiple evictable pages to the LRU
+ *
+ * Batched putback of evictable pages that bypasses the per-cpu pvec. Some of
+ * the pages might have meanwhile become unevictable but that is OK.
+ */
+static void __putback_lru_fast(struct pagevec *pvec, int pgrescued)
+{
+ count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGMUNLOCKED, pagevec_count(pvec));
+ /*
+ *__pagevec_lru_add() calls release_pages() so we don't call
+ * put_page() explicitly
+ */
+ __pagevec_lru_add(pvec);
+ count_vm_events(UNEVICTABLE_PGRESCUED, pgrescued);
+}
+
+/*
* Munlock a batch of pages from the same zone
*
* The work is split to two main phases. First phase clears the Mlocked flag
@@ -242,6 +288,8 @@ static void __munlock_pagevec(struct pagevec *pvec, struct zone *zone)
int i;
int nr = pagevec_count(pvec);
int delta_munlocked = -nr;
+ struct pagevec pvec_putback;
+ int pgrescued = 0;
/* Phase 1: page isolation */
spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
@@ -279,17 +327,34 @@ skip_munlock:
__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_MLOCK, delta_munlocked);
spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
- /* Phase 2: page munlock and putback */
+ /* Phase 2: page munlock */
+ pagevec_init(&pvec_putback, 0);
for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
struct page *page = pvec->pages[i];
if (page) {
lock_page(page);
- __munlock_isolated_page(page);
- unlock_page(page);
- put_page(page); /* pin from follow_page_mask() */
+ if (!__putback_lru_fast_prepare(page, &pvec_putback,
+ &pgrescued)) {
+ /* Slow path */
+ __munlock_isolated_page(page);
+ unlock_page(page);
+ }
}
}
+
+ /* Phase 3: page putback for pages that qualified for the fast path */
+ if (pagevec_count(&pvec_putback))
+ __putback_lru_fast(&pvec_putback, pgrescued);
+
+ /* Phase 4: put_page to return pin from follow_page_mask() */
+ for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) {
+ struct page *page = pvec->pages[i];
+
+ if (page)
+ put_page(page);
+ }
+
pagevec_reinit(pvec);
}