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* [RFC PATCH 0/4] TLB flush multiple pages with a single IPI
@ 2015-04-15 10:42 ` Mel Gorman
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 56+ messages in thread
From: Mel Gorman @ 2015-04-15 10:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux-MM
  Cc: Rik van Riel, Johannes Weiner, Dave Hansen, Andi Kleen, LKML, Mel Gorman

When unmapping pages it is necessary to flush the TLB. If that page was
accessed by another CPU then an IPI is used to flush the remote CPU. That
is a lot of IPIs if kswapd is scanning and unmapping >100K pages per second.

There already is a window between when a page is unmapped and when it is
TLB flushed. This series simply increases the window so multiple pages can
be flushed using a single IPI.

Patch 1 simply made the rest of the series easier to write as ftrace
	could identify all the senders of TLB flush IPIS.

Patch 2 collects a list of PFNs and sends one IPI to flush them all

Patch 3 uses more memory so further defer when the IPI gets sent

Patch 4 uses the same infrastructure as patch 2 to batch IPIs sent during
	page migration.

The performance impact is documented in the changelogs but in the optimistic
case on a 4-socket machine the full series reduces interrupts from 900K
interrupts/second to 60K interrupts/second.

Last minute note: It occured to me just before sending that a TLB flush
	cannot be batched if the PTE was dirty at unmap time as the page
	lock is released before the TLB flush occurs. That allows IO to
	be started in parallel while writes can still take place through a
	cached entry. I decided not to delay the series as it's RFC and I
	want to see if there is interest in this. Note however that there
	is a difficult-to-hit potential corruption race here.

 arch/x86/Kconfig                |  1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h |  2 +
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c               |  1 +
 include/linux/init_task.h       |  8 ++++
 include/linux/mm_types.h        |  1 +
 include/linux/rmap.h            |  3 ++
 include/linux/sched.h           | 20 ++++++++++
 include/trace/events/tlb.h      |  3 +-
 init/Kconfig                    |  5 +++
 kernel/fork.c                   |  5 +++
 kernel/sched/core.c             |  3 ++
 mm/internal.h                   | 16 ++++++++
 mm/migrate.c                    |  8 +++-
 mm/rmap.c                       | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 mm/vmscan.c                     | 29 +++++++++++++-
 15 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

-- 
2.1.2


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* [RFC PATCH 0/4] TLB flush multiple pages with a single IPI v2
@ 2015-04-16 10:22 Mel Gorman
  2015-04-16 10:22   ` Mel Gorman
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 56+ messages in thread
From: Mel Gorman @ 2015-04-16 10:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux-MM
  Cc: Rik van Riel, Hugh Dickins, Minchan Kim, Dave Hansen, Andi Kleen,
	LKML, Mel Gorman

Changelog since V1
o Structure and variable renaming				(hughd)
o Defer flushes even if the unmapping process is sleeping	(huged)
o Alternative sizing of structure				(peterz)
o Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC, PF_MEMALLOC protects	(andi)
o Immediately flush dirty PTEs to avoid corruption		(mel)
o Further clarify docs on the required arch guarantees		(mel)

When unmapping pages it is necessary to flush the TLB. If that page was
accessed by another CPU then an IPI is used to flush the remote CPU. That
is a lot of IPIs if kswapd is scanning and unmapping >100K pages per second.

There already is a window between when a page is unmapped and when it is
TLB flushed. This series simply increases the window so multiple pages can
be flushed using a single IPI.

Patch 1 simply made the rest of the series easier to write as ftrace
	could identify all the senders of TLB flush IPIS.

Patch 2 collects a list of PFNs and sends one IPI to flush them all

Patch 3 uses more memory so further defer when the IPI gets sent

Patch 4 uses the same infrastructure as patch 2 to batch IPIs sent during
	page migration.

The performance impact is documented in the changelogs but in the optimistic
case on a 4-socket machine the full series reduces interrupts from 900K
interrupts/second to 60K interrupts/second.

 arch/x86/Kconfig                |  1 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h |  2 +
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c               |  1 +
 include/linux/init_task.h       |  8 ++++
 include/linux/mm_types.h        |  1 +
 include/linux/rmap.h            |  3 ++
 include/linux/sched.h           | 15 +++++++
 include/trace/events/tlb.h      |  3 +-
 init/Kconfig                    |  8 ++++
 kernel/fork.c                   |  7 +++
 kernel/sched/core.c             |  3 ++
 mm/internal.h                   | 16 +++++++
 mm/migrate.c                    |  6 ++-
 mm/rmap.c                       | 99 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 mm/vmscan.c                     | 33 +++++++++++++-
 15 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

-- 
2.1.2


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2015-04-15 10:42   ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 10:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: Send a single IPI to TLB flush multiple pages when unmapping Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 10:42   ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 21:03   ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-15 21:03     ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-15 21:16     ` Hugh Dickins
2015-04-15 21:16       ` Hugh Dickins
2015-04-15 21:28       ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 21:28         ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 21:32         ` Dave Hansen
2015-04-15 21:32           ` Dave Hansen
2015-04-16  6:38         ` Minchan Kim
2015-04-16  6:38           ` Minchan Kim
2015-04-16  8:07           ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-16  8:07             ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-16  8:29             ` Minchan Kim
2015-04-16  8:29               ` Minchan Kim
2015-04-16  9:19               ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-16  9:19                 ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-16 23:30                 ` Minchan Kim
2015-04-16 23:30                   ` Minchan Kim
2015-04-15 22:20   ` Andi Kleen
2015-04-15 22:20     ` Andi Kleen
2015-04-15 22:53     ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 22:53       ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 10:42 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: Gather more PFNs before sending a TLB to flush unmapped pages Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 10:42   ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 11:42   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-15 11:42     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-15 12:15     ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 12:15       ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 12:24       ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-15 12:24         ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-04-15 12:56         ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 12:56           ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 10:42 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm: migrate: Batch TLB flushing when unmapping pages for migration Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 10:42   ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 21:06   ` Hugh Dickins
2015-04-15 21:06     ` Hugh Dickins
2015-04-15 21:44     ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 21:44       ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-15 23:50       ` Hugh Dickins
2015-04-15 23:50         ` Hugh Dickins
2015-04-16 10:22 [RFC PATCH 0/4] TLB flush multiple pages with a single IPI v2 Mel Gorman
2015-04-16 10:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm: migrate: Batch TLB flushing when unmapping pages for migration Mel Gorman
2015-04-16 10:22   ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-16 10:51   ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-16 10:51     ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-16 16:01   ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-16 16:01     ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-16 18:57   ` Hugh Dickins
2015-04-16 18:57     ` Hugh Dickins
2015-04-16 19:34     ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-16 19:34       ` Mel Gorman

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