mm: swap: use smp_mb__after_atomic() to order LRU bit set
authorYang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2020 04:06:23 +0000 (21:06 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 2 Apr 2020 16:35:28 +0000 (09:35 -0700)
Memory barrier is needed after setting LRU bit, but smp_mb() is too
strong.  Some architectures, i.e.  x86, imply memory barrier with atomic
operations, so replacing it with smp_mb__after_atomic() sounds better,
which is nop on strong ordered machines, and full memory barriers on
others.  With this change the vm-scalability cases would perform better on
x86, I saw total 6% improvement with this patch and previous inline fix.

The test data (lru-file-readtwice throughput) against v5.6-rc4:
mainline w/ inline fix w/ both (adding this)
150MB 154MB 159MB

Fixes: 9c4e6b1a7027 ("mm, mlock, vmscan: no more skipping pagevecs")
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1584500541-46817-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/swap.c

index f502a21..a4af8c9 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -931,7 +931,6 @@ static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
 
        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
 
-       SetPageLRU(page);
        /*
         * Page becomes evictable in two ways:
         * 1) Within LRU lock [munlock_vma_page() and __munlock_pagevec()].
@@ -958,7 +957,8 @@ static void __pagevec_lru_add_fn(struct page *page, struct lruvec *lruvec,
         * looking at the same page) and the evictable page will be stranded
         * in an unevictable LRU.
         */
-       smp_mb();
+       SetPageLRU(page);
+       smp_mb__after_atomic();
 
        if (page_evictable(page)) {
                lru = page_lru(page);