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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>,  Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	 <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7 v1] Speed up page cache truncation
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:25:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tgisyo6.fsf@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171010151937.26984-1-jack@suse.cz> (Jan Kara's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:19:30 +0200")

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:

> when rebasing our enterprise distro to a newer kernel (from 4.4 to 4.12) we
> have noticed a regression in bonnie++ benchmark when deleting files.
> Eventually we have tracked this down to a fact that page cache truncation got
> slower by about 10%. There were both gains and losses in the above interval of
> kernels but we have been able to identify that commit 83929372f629 "filemap:
> prepare find and delete operations for huge pages" caused about 10% regression
> on its own.

It's odd that just checking if some pages are huge should be that
expensive, but ok ..
>
> Patch 1 is an easy speedup of cancel_dirty_page(). Patches 2-6 refactor page
> cache truncation code so that it is easier to batch radix tree operations.
> Patch 7 implements batching of deletes from the radix tree which more than
> makes up for the original regression.
>
> What do people think about this series?

Batching locks is always a good idea. You'll likely see far more benefits
under lock contention on larger systems.

>From a quick read it looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>


-Andi

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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7 v1] Speed up page cache truncation
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:25:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tgisyo6.fsf@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171010151937.26984-1-jack@suse.cz> (Jan Kara's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:19:30 +0200")

Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> writes:

> when rebasing our enterprise distro to a newer kernel (from 4.4 to 4.12) we
> have noticed a regression in bonnie++ benchmark when deleting files.
> Eventually we have tracked this down to a fact that page cache truncation got
> slower by about 10%. There were both gains and losses in the above interval of
> kernels but we have been able to identify that commit 83929372f629 "filemap:
> prepare find and delete operations for huge pages" caused about 10% regression
> on its own.

It's odd that just checking if some pages are huge should be that
expensive, but ok ..
>
> Patch 1 is an easy speedup of cancel_dirty_page(). Patches 2-6 refactor page
> cache truncation code so that it is easier to batch radix tree operations.
> Patch 7 implements batching of deletes from the radix tree which more than
> makes up for the original regression.
>
> What do people think about this series?

Batching locks is always a good idea. You'll likely see far more benefits
under lock contention on larger systems.

>From a quick read it looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>


-Andi

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-10 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-10 15:19 Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19 ` Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19 ` [PATCH 1/7] mm: Speedup cancel_dirty_page() for clean pages Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19   ` Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm: Refactor truncate_complete_page() Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19   ` Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19 ` [PATCH 3/7] mm: Factor out page cache page freeing into a separate function Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19   ` Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19 ` [PATCH 4/7] mm: Move accounting updates before page_cache_tree_delete() Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19   ` Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19 ` [PATCH 5/7] mm: Move clearing of page->mapping to page_cache_tree_delete() Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19   ` Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm: Factor out checks and accounting from __delete_from_page_cache() Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19   ` Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19 ` [PATCH 7/7] mm: Batch radix tree operations when truncating pages Jan Kara
2017-10-10 15:19   ` Jan Kara
2017-10-11  7:39   ` Mel Gorman
2017-10-17 23:05   ` Andrew Morton
2017-10-17 23:05     ` Andrew Morton
2017-10-18 10:44     ` Jan Kara
2017-10-10 17:25 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2017-10-10 17:25   ` [PATCH 0/7 v1] Speed up page cache truncation Andi Kleen
2017-10-11  8:06   ` Jan Kara
2017-10-11 16:51     ` Andi Kleen
2017-10-11 17:34     ` Dave Hansen
2017-10-11 17:59       ` Mel Gorman
2017-10-11 18:37         ` Andi Kleen
2017-10-11 21:06       ` Jan Kara
2017-10-11 21:24         ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-12  9:09           ` Mel Gorman
2017-10-12 14:07           ` Jan Kara

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