On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Don Zickus and Joe Mario have been working on improvements to
> perf, and noticed heavy cache line contention on the mm_cpumask,
> running linpack on a 60 core / 120 thread system.
>
> The cause turned out to be unnecessary atomic accesses to the
> mm_cpumask. When in lazy TLB mode, the CPU is only removed from
> the mm_cpumask if there is a TLB flush event.
>
> Most of the time, no such TLB flush happens, and the kernel
> skips the TLB reload. It can also skip the atomic memory
> set & test.
>
> Here is a summary of Joe's test results:
>
> * The __schedule function dropped from 24% of all program cycles down
> to 5.5%.
> * The cacheline contention/hotness for accesses to that bitmask went
> from being the 1st/2nd hottest - down to the 84th hottest (0.3% of
> all shared misses which is now quite cold)
> * The average load latency for the bit-test-n-set instruction in
> __schedule dropped from 10k-15k cycles down to an average of 600 cycles.
> * The linpack program results improved from 133 GFlops to 144 GFlops.
> Peak GFlops rose from 133 to 153.
>
> Reported-by: Don Zickus <dzic...@redhat.com>
> Reported-by: Joe Mario <jma...@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Joe Mario <jma...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> index cdbf367..987eb3d 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
> @@ -59,11 +59,12 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev,
> struct mm_struct *next,
> this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.state, TLBSTATE_OK);
> BUG_ON(this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm) != next);
>
> - if (!cpumask_test_and_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next))) {
> + if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next))) {
> /* We were in lazy tlb mode and leave_mm disabled
> * tlb flush IPI delivery. We must reload CR3
> * to make sure to use no freed page tables.
> */
> + cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next));
> load_cr3(next->pgd);
> load_LDT_nolock(&next->context);
> }
We're carrying the *exact* same patch for *exact* same reason. I've
been meaning to send it out but wasn't sure of a good external
workload for this.
Reviewed-by: Paul Turner <p...@google.com>
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