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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>
Cc: kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com,
	sthemmin@microsoft.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com,
	jgross@suse.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com, mhocko@suse.com,
	iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	osalvador@suse.de, malat@debian.org,
	kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, jrdr.linux@gmail.com,
	yasu.isimatu@gmail.com, mgorman@techsingularity.net,
	aaron.lu@intel.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, vatsa@codeaurora.org,
	vinmenon@codeaurora.org, getarunks@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] memory_hotplug: Free pages as higher order
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:07:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97d8db4c-f117-8216-5f48-d5991692c867@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <efb65160af41d0e18cb2dcb30c2fb86a@codeaurora.org>

On 10/10/18 6:56 PM, Arun KS wrote:
> On 2018-10-10 21:00, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 10/5/18 10:10 AM, Arun KS wrote:
>>> When free pages are done with higher order, time spend on
>>> coalescing pages by buddy allocator can be reduced. With
>>> section size of 256MB, hot add latency of a single section
>>> shows improvement from 50-60 ms to less than 1 ms, hence
>>> improving the hot add latency by 60%. Modify external
>>> providers of online callback to align with the change.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> @@ -655,26 +655,44 @@ void __online_page_free(struct page *page)
>>>  }
>>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__online_page_free);
>>>
>>> -static void generic_online_page(struct page *page)
>>> +static int generic_online_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
>>>  {
>>> -	__online_page_set_limits(page);
>>
>> This is now not called anymore, although the xen/hv variants still do
>> it. The function seems empty these days, maybe remove it as a followup
>> cleanup?
>>
>>> -	__online_page_increment_counters(page);
>>> -	__online_page_free(page);
>>> +	__free_pages_core(page, order);
>>> +	totalram_pages += (1UL << order);
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
>>> +	if (PageHighMem(page))
>>> +		totalhigh_pages += (1UL << order);
>>> +#endif
>>
>> __online_page_increment_counters() would have used
>> adjust_managed_page_count() which would do the changes under
>> managed_page_count_lock. Are we safe without the lock? If yes, there
>> should perhaps be a comment explaining why.
> 
> Looks unsafe without managed_page_count_lock. I think better have a 
> similar implementation of free_boot_core() in memory_hotplug.c like we 
> had in version 1 of patch. And use adjust_managed_page_count() instead 
> of page_zone(page)->managed_pages += nr_pages;
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/989445/

Looks like deferred_free_range() has the same problem calling
__free_pages_core() to adjust zone->managed_pages. I expect
__free_pages_bootmem() is OK because at that point the system is still
single-threaded?
Could be solved by moving that out of __free_pages_core().

But do we care about readers potentially seeing a store tear? If yes
then maybe these counters should be converted to atomics...

> -static void generic_online_page(struct page *page)
> +static int generic_online_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
>   {
> -	__online_page_set_limits(page);
> -	__online_page_increment_counters(page);
> -	__online_page_free(page);
> +	unsigned long nr_pages = 1 << order;
> +	struct page *p = page;
> +
> +	for (loop = 0 ; loop < nr_pages ; loop++, p++) {
> +		__ClearPageReserved(p);
> +		set_page_count(p, 0);
> +	}
> +
> +	adjust_managed_page_count(page, nr_pages);
> +	set_page_refcounted(page);
> +	__free_pages(page, order);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Arun
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-11  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-05  8:10 [PATCH v5 1/2] memory_hotplug: Free pages as higher order Arun KS
2018-10-05  8:10 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] mm/page_alloc: remove software prefetching in __free_pages_core Arun KS
2018-10-09  9:30   ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-10 16:36   ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-08  7:34 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] memory_hotplug: Free pages as higher order Oscar Salvador
2018-10-09  9:29 ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-09  9:54   ` Arun KS
2018-10-09 11:06     ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-10  8:07 ` Oscar Salvador
2018-10-10 10:51   ` Arun KS
2018-10-10 11:01     ` Oscar Salvador
2018-10-10 15:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-10 16:56   ` Arun KS
2018-10-10 17:33     ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-11  2:29       ` Arun KS
2018-10-11  7:55         ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-19  2:18           ` Andrew Morton
2018-10-19  8:07             ` Michal Hocko
2018-10-22 10:33               ` Arun KS
2018-11-05  9:42                 ` Arun KS
2018-11-05 21:44                   ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-06  5:31                     ` Arun KS
2018-10-11  8:07     ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2018-10-11  8:15       ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-19 22:15       ` Wei Yang

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