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mm/page_alloc: fetch the correct pcp buddy during bulk free

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Patch series "Follow-up on high-order PCP caching", v2.

Commit 44042b4498 ("mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored
on the per-cpu lists") was primarily aimed at reducing the cost of SLUB
cache refills of high-order pages in two ways.  Firstly, zone lock
acquisitions was reduced and secondly, there were fewer buddy list
modifications.  This is a follow-up series fixing some issues that
became apparant after merging.

Patch 1 is a functional fix.  It's harmless but inefficient.

Patches 2-5 reduce the overhead of bulk freeing of PCP pages.  While the
overhead is small, it's cumulative and noticable when truncating large
files.  The changelog for patch 4 includes results of a microbench that
deletes large sparse files with data in page cache.  Sparse files were
used to eliminate filesystem overhead.

Patch 6 addresses issues with high-order PCP pages being stored on PCP
lists for too long.  Pages freed on a CPU potentially may not be quickly
reused and in some cases this can increase cache miss rates.  Details
are included in the changelog.

This patch (of 6):

free_pcppages_bulk() prefetches buddies about to be freed but the order
must also be passed in as PCP lists store multiple orders.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220217002227.5739-1-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220217002227.5739-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Fixes: 44042b4498 ("mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists")
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman 2022-03-22 14:43:30 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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