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* [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: reduce the number of lazy_max_pages to reduce latency
@ 2016-09-29  7:34 ` Jisheng Zhang
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 33+ messages in thread
From: Jisheng Zhang @ 2016-09-29  7:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, mgorman, chris, rientjes, iamjoonsoo.kim, npiggin, agnel.joel
  Cc: linux-mm, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel, Jisheng Zhang

On Marvell berlin arm64 platforms, I see the preemptoff tracer report
a max 26543 us latency at __purge_vmap_area_lazy, this latency is an
awfully bad for STB. And the ftrace log also shows __free_vmap_area
contributes most latency now. I noticed that Joel mentioned the same
issue[1] on x86 platform and gave two solutions, but it seems no patch
is sent out for this purpose.

This patch adopts Joel's first solution, but I use 16MB per core
rather than 8MB per core for the number of lazy_max_pages. After this
patch, the preemptoff tracer reports a max 6455us latency, reduced to
1/4 of original result.

[1] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1603.2/04803.html

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>
---
 mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 91f44e7..66f377a 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ static unsigned long lazy_max_pages(void)
 
 	log = fls(num_online_cpus());
 
-	return log * (32UL * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE);
+	return log * (16UL * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE);
 }
 
 static atomic_t vmap_lazy_nr = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
-- 
2.9.3

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2016-09-29  7:34 [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: reduce the number of lazy_max_pages to reduce latency Jisheng Zhang
2016-09-29  7:34 ` Jisheng Zhang
2016-09-29  7:34 ` Jisheng Zhang
2016-09-29  8:18 ` Chris Wilson
2016-09-29  8:18   ` Chris Wilson
2016-09-29  8:18   ` Chris Wilson
2016-09-29  8:28   ` Jisheng Zhang
2016-09-29  8:28     ` Jisheng Zhang
2016-09-29  8:28     ` Jisheng Zhang
2016-09-29 11:07     ` Chris Wilson
2016-09-29 11:07       ` Chris Wilson
2016-09-29 11:07       ` Chris Wilson
2016-09-29 11:18       ` Jisheng Zhang
2016-09-29 11:18         ` Jisheng Zhang
2016-09-29 11:18         ` Jisheng Zhang
2016-10-09  3:43   ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-09  3:43     ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-09  3:43     ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-09 12:42     ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-09 12:42       ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-09 12:42       ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-09 19:00       ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-09 19:00         ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-09 19:00         ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-09 19:26         ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-09 19:26           ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-09 19:26           ` Chris Wilson
2016-10-11  5:06           ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-11  5:06             ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-11  5:06             ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-11  5:34             ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-11  5:34               ` Joel Fernandes
2016-10-11  5:34               ` Joel Fernandes

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