mm/page_alloc: use only one PCP list for THP-sized allocations
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:54:18 +0000 (13:54 +0100)
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 18 Jul 2022 00:14:35 +0000 (17:14 -0700)
commit5d0a661d808fc8ddc26940b1a12b82ae356f3ae2
tree49f214d7a66fde2c654515e999be1ffe7307cbdb
parentbf75f200569dd05ac2112797f44548beb6b4be26
mm/page_alloc: use only one PCP list for THP-sized allocations

The per_cpu_pages is cache-aligned on a standard x86-64 distribution
configuration but a later patch will add a new field which would push the
structure into the next cache line.  Use only one list to store THP-sized
pages on the per-cpu list.  This assumes that the vast majority of
THP-sized allocations are GFP_MOVABLE but even if it was another type, it
would not contribute to serious fragmentation that potentially causes a
later THP allocation failure.  Align per_cpu_pages on the cacheline
boundary to ensure there is no false cache sharing.

After this patch, the structure sizing is;

struct per_cpu_pages {
        int                        count;                /*     0     4 */
        int                        high;                 /*     4     4 */
        int                        batch;                /*     8     4 */
        short int                  free_factor;          /*    12     2 */
        short int                  expire;               /*    14     2 */
        struct list_head           lists[13];            /*    16   208 */

        /* size: 256, cachelines: 4, members: 6 */
        /* padding: 32 */
} __attribute__((__aligned__(64)));

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220624125423.6126-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/page_alloc.c