On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 14:28:44 +0800 Aaron Lu <aaron...@intel.com> wrote:
> When freeing a batch of pages from Per-CPU-Pages(PCP) back to buddy, > the zone->lock is held and then pages are chosen from PCP's migratetype > list. While there is actually no need to do this 'choose part' under > lock since it's PCP pages, the only CPU that can touch them is us and > irq is also disabled. > > Moving this part outside could reduce lock held time and improve > performance. Test with will-it-scale/page_fault1 full load: > > kernel Broadwell(2S) Skylake(2S) Broadwell(4S) Skylake(4S) > v4.16-rc2+ 9034215 7971818 13667135 15677465 > this patch 9536374 +5.6% 8314710 +4.3% 14070408 +3.0% 16675866 +6.4% > > What the test does is: starts $nr_cpu processes and each will repeatedly > do the following for 5 minutes: > 1 mmap 128M anonymouse space; > 2 write access to that space; > 3 munmap. > The score is the aggregated iteration. But it's a loss for uniprocessor systems: it adds more code and adds an additional pass across a list.
