[Devel] [PATCH rh7 1/7] mm: only drain per-cpu pagevecs once per pagevec usage

[Andrey Ryabinin]

From: Mel Gorman <mgorman at techsingularity.net>

When a pagevec is initialised on the stack, it is generally used
multiple times over a range of pages, looking up entries and then
releasing them.  On each pagevec_release, the per-cpu deferred LRU
pagevecs are drained on the grounds the page being released may be on
those queues and the pages may be cache hot.  In many cases only the
first drain is necessary as it's unlikely that the range of pages being
walked is racing against LRU addition.  Even if there is such a race,
the impact is marginal where as constantly redraining the lru pagevecs
costs.

This patch ensures that pagevec is only drained once in a given
lifecycle without increasing the cache footprint of the pagevec
structure.  Only sparsetruncate tiny is shown here as large files have
many exceptional entries and calls pagecache_release less frequently.

sparsetruncate (tiny)
                              4.14.0-rc4             4.14.0-rc4
                        batchshadow-v1r1          onedrain-v1r1
Min          Time      141.00 (   0.00%)      141.00 (   0.00%)
1st-qrtle    Time      142.00 (   0.00%)      142.00 (   0.00%)
2nd-qrtle    Time      142.00 (   0.00%)      142.00 (   0.00%)
3rd-qrtle    Time      143.00 (   0.00%)      143.00 (   0.00%)
Max-90%      Time      144.00 (   0.00%)      144.00 (   0.00%)
Max-95%      Time      146.00 (   0.00%)      145.00 (   0.68%)
Max-99%      Time      198.00 (   0.00%)      194.00 (   2.02%)
Max          Time      254.00 (   0.00%)      208.00 (  18.11%)
Amean        Time      145.12 (   0.00%)      144.30 (   0.56%)
Stddev       Time       12.74 (   0.00%)        9.62 (  24.49%)
Coeff        Time        8.78 (   0.00%)        6.67 (  24.06%)
Best99%Amean Time      144.29 (   0.00%)      143.82 (   0.32%)
Best95%Amean Time      142.68 (   0.00%)      142.31 (   0.26%)
Best90%Amean Time      142.52 (   0.00%)      142.19 (   0.24%)
Best75%Amean Time      142.26 (   0.00%)      141.98 (   0.20%)
Best50%Amean Time      141.90 (   0.00%)      141.71 (   0.13%)
Best25%Amean Time      141.80 (   0.00%)      141.43 (   0.26%)

The impact on bonnie is marginal and within the noise because a
significant percentage of the file being truncated has been reclaimed
and consists of shadow entries which reduce the hotness of the
pagevec_release path.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-5-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman at techsingularity.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak at linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>

https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-98148
(cherry picked from commit d9ed0d08b6c6a882da1d8e75bb3162fc889fd199)
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin at virtuozzo.com>
---
 include/linux/pagevec.h | 4 +++-
 mm/swap.c               | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/pagevec.h b/include/linux/pagevec.h
index 3c6b8b1e945b..e64e6f35c8e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagevec.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagevec.h
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ struct address_space;
 
 struct pagevec {
 	unsigned long nr;
-	unsigned long cold;
+	bool cold;
+	bool drained;
 	struct page *pages[PAGEVEC_SIZE];
 };
 
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ static inline void pagevec_init(struct pagevec *pvec, int cold)
 {
 	pvec->nr = 0;
 	pvec->cold = cold;
+	pvec->drained = false;
 }
 
 static inline void pagevec_reinit(struct pagevec *pvec)
diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index 762038da1d0c..8ea93ce3f857 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -1131,7 +1131,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(release_pages);
  */
 void __pagevec_release(struct pagevec *pvec)
 {
-	lru_add_drain();
+	if (!pvec->drained) {
+		lru_add_drain();
+		pvec->drained = true;
+	}
 	release_pages(pvec->pages, pagevec_count(pvec), pvec->cold);
 	pagevec_reinit(pvec);
 }
-- 
2.26.2