Re: [PATCH] mm: Free per cpu pages async to shorten program exit time

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 08.10.21 08:39, ultrachin@163.com wrote:
> From: chen xiaoguang <xiaoggchen@tencent.com>
> 
> The exit time is long when program allocated big memory and
> the most time consuming part is free memory which takes 99.9%
> of the total exit time. By using async free we can save 25% of
> exit time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: chen xiaoguang <xiaoggchen@tencent.com>
> Signed-off-by: zeng jingxiang <linuszeng@tencent.com>
> Signed-off-by: lu yihui <yihuilu@tencent.com>

I recently discussed with Claudio if it would be possible to tear down 
the process MM deferred, because for some use cases (secure/encrypted 
virtualization, very large mmaps) tearing down the page tables is 
already the much more expensive operation.

There is mmdrop_async(), and I wondered if one could reuse that concept 
when tearing down a process -- I didn't look into feasibility, however, 
so it's just some very rough idea.

> ---
>   include/linux/mm.h |  1 +
>   kernel/exit.c      |  2 ++
>   mm/page_alloc.c    | 89 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>   3 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 73a52aba448f..2add3b635eee 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -908,6 +908,7 @@ void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pages);
>   
>   void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
>   void copy_huge_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src);
> +void kfreepcp_set_run(unsigned int cpu);
>   
>   /*
>    * Compound pages have a destructor function.  Provide a
> diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
> index 91a43e57a32e..269eb81acbe9 100644
> --- a/kernel/exit.c
> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -167,10 +167,12 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
>   static void delayed_put_task_struct(struct rcu_head *rhp)
>   {
>   	struct task_struct *tsk = container_of(rhp, struct task_struct, rcu);
> +	unsigned int cpu = tsk->cpu;
>   
>   	perf_event_delayed_put(tsk);
>   	trace_sched_process_free(tsk);
>   	put_task_struct(tsk);
> +	kfreepcp_set_run(cpu);
>   }
>   
>   void put_task_struct_rcu_user(struct task_struct *task)
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index b37435c274cf..8a748ea9156b 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
>   #include <linux/padata.h>
>   #include <linux/khugepaged.h>
>   #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
> +#include <linux/smpboot.h>
>   #include <asm/sections.h>
>   #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
>   #include <asm/div64.h>
> @@ -147,6 +148,12 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, _numa_mem_);		/* Kernel "local memory" node */
>   EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(_numa_mem_);
>   #endif
>   
> +struct freepcp_stat {
> +	struct task_struct *thread;
> +	bool should_run;
> +};
> +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct freepcp_stat, kfreepcp);
> +
>   /* work_structs for global per-cpu drains */
>   struct pcpu_drain {
>   	struct zone *zone;
> @@ -3361,6 +3368,81 @@ static int nr_pcp_high(struct per_cpu_pages *pcp, struct zone *zone)
>   	return min(READ_ONCE(pcp->batch) << 2, high);
>   }
>   
> +void kfreepcp_set_run(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	struct task_struct *tsk;
> +	struct freepcp_stat *stat = this_cpu_ptr(&kfreepcp);
> +
> +	tsk = stat->thread;
> +	per_cpu(kfreepcp.should_run, cpu) = true;
> +
> +	if (tsk && !task_is_running(tsk))
> +		wake_up_process(tsk);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kfreepcp_set_run);
> +
> +static int kfreepcp_should_run(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	struct freepcp_stat *stat = this_cpu_ptr(&kfreepcp);
> +
> +	return stat->should_run;
> +}
> +
> +static void run_kfreepcp(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	struct zone *zone;
> +	struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +	struct freepcp_stat *stat = this_cpu_ptr(&kfreepcp);
> +	bool need_free_more = false;
> +
> +
> +
> +again:
> +	need_free_more = false;
> +	for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
> +		pcp = per_cpu_ptr(zone->per_cpu_pageset, cpu);
> +		if (pcp->count && pcp->high && pcp->count > pcp->high) {
> +			unsigned long batch = READ_ONCE(pcp->batch);
> +			int high;
> +
> +			high = nr_pcp_high(pcp, zone);
> +			local_irq_save(flags);
> +			free_pcppages_bulk(zone, nr_pcp_free(pcp, high, batch),
> +					pcp);
> +			local_irq_restore(flags);
> +			if (pcp->count > pcp->high)
> +				need_free_more = true;
> +		}
> +
> +		cond_resched();
> +	}
> +	if (need_free_more)
> +		goto again;
> +
> +	stat->should_run = false;
> +}
> +
> +static struct smp_hotplug_thread freepcp_threads = {
> +	.store                  = &kfreepcp.thread,
> +	.thread_should_run      = kfreepcp_should_run,
> +	.thread_fn              = run_kfreepcp,
> +	.thread_comm            = "kfreepcp/%u",
> +};
> +
> +static int __init freepcp_init(void)
> +{
> +	int cpu;
> +
> +	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> +		per_cpu(kfreepcp.should_run, cpu) = false;
> +
> +	BUG_ON(smpboot_register_percpu_thread(&freepcp_threads));
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +late_initcall(freepcp_init);
> +
>   static void free_unref_page_commit(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
>   				   int migratetype, unsigned int order)
>   {
> @@ -3375,11 +3457,8 @@ static void free_unref_page_commit(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
>   	list_add(&page->lru, &pcp->lists[pindex]);
>   	pcp->count += 1 << order;
>   	high = nr_pcp_high(pcp, zone);
> -	if (pcp->count >= high) {
> -		int batch = READ_ONCE(pcp->batch);
> -
> -		free_pcppages_bulk(zone, nr_pcp_free(pcp, high, batch), pcp);
> -	}
> +	if (pcp->count >= high)
> +		this_cpu_ptr(&kfreepcp)->should_run = false;
>   }
>   
>   /*
> 


-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb