From cc9a6c8776615f9c194ccf0b63a0aa5628235545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:34:11 -0700 Subject: cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3 Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Miao Xie Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slab.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/slab.c') diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index f0bd7857ab3b..29c8716eb7a9 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -3284,12 +3284,10 @@ static void *alternate_node_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags) if (in_interrupt() || (flags & __GFP_THISNODE)) return NULL; nid_alloc = nid_here = numa_mem_id(); - get_mems_allowed(); if (cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread() && (cachep->flags & SLAB_MEM_SPREAD)) nid_alloc = cpuset_slab_spread_node(); else if (current->mempolicy) nid_alloc = slab_node(current->mempolicy); - put_mems_allowed(); if (nid_alloc != nid_here) return ____cache_alloc_node(cachep, flags, nid_alloc); return NULL; @@ -3312,14 +3310,17 @@ static void *fallback_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t flags) enum zone_type high_zoneidx = gfp_zone(flags); void *obj = NULL; int nid; + unsigned int cpuset_mems_cookie; if (flags & __GFP_THISNODE) return NULL; - get_mems_allowed(); - zonelist = node_zonelist(slab_node(current->mempolicy), flags); local_flags = flags & (GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK|GFP_RECLAIM_MASK); +retry_cpuset: + cpuset_mems_cookie = get_mems_allowed(); + zonelist = node_zonelist(slab_node(current->mempolicy), flags); + retry: /* * Look through allowed nodes for objects available @@ -3372,7 +3373,9 @@ retry: } } } - put_mems_allowed(); + + if (unlikely(!put_mems_allowed(cpuset_mems_cookie) && !obj)) + goto retry_cpuset; return obj; } -- cgit v1.2.3