mm/page_alloc: remotely drain per-cpu lists
Some setups, notably NOHZ_FULL CPUs, are too busy to handle the per-cpu drain work queued by __drain_all_pages(). So introduce a new mechanism to remotely drain the per-cpu lists. It is made possible by remotely locking 'struct per_cpu_pages' new per-cpu spinlocks. A benefit of this new scheme is that drain operations are now migration safe. There was no observed performance degradation vs. the previous scheme. Both netperf and hackbench were run in parallel to triggering the __drain_all_pages(NULL, true) code path around ~100 times per second. The new scheme performs a bit better (~5%), although the important point here is there are no performance regressions vs. the previous mechanism. Per-cpu lists draining happens only in slow paths. Minchan Kim tested an earlier version and reported; My workload is not NOHZ CPUs but run apps under heavy memory pressure so they goes to direct reclaim and be stuck on drain_all_pages until work on workqueue run. unit: nanosecond max(dur) avg(dur) count(dur) 166713013 487511.77786438033 1283 From traces, system encountered the drain_all_pages 1283 times and worst case was 166ms and avg was 487us. The other problem was alloc_contig_range in CMA. The PCP draining takes several hundred millisecond sometimes though there is no memory pressure or a few of pages to be migrated out but CPU were fully booked. Your patch perfectly removed those wasted time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624125423.6126-7-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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