+ mm-vmalloc-avoid-false-sharing-with-drain_vmap_work.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/vmalloc: avoid false sharing with drain_vmap_work
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-vmalloc-avoid-false-sharing-with-drain_vmap_work.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-vmalloc-avoid-false-sharing-with-drain_vmap_work.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "=?UTF-8?B?Sm9uYXNaaG91LW9j?=" <jonaszhou-oc@zhaoxin.com>
Subject: mm/vmalloc: avoid false sharing with drain_vmap_work
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:46:59 +0800

free_vmap_area_noflush() queues drain_vmap_work after the number of lazily
freed pages exceeds lazy_max_pages().  Until the worker purges those
pages, concurrent frees keep calling schedule_work().  Even if the work is
already pending, queue_work_on() performs a locked test_and_set_bit() on
the pending bit in the work item.

On the tested x86-64 build, drain_vmap_work and vmap_nodes occupy the same
64-byte cache line.  The work item starts at offset 0 and the vmap_nodes
pointer at offset 32.  The latter is read by vmap allocation and free
paths, so updates to the work item invalidate a cache line read by all
CPUs.

Put drain_vmap_work in the cacheline-aligned data section.  Tests were run
on Linux 7.2.

On a two-socket Intel Xeon Silver 4208 system using 16 workers, the
runtimes of vmalloc.fix_align, vmalloc.fix_size, and
vmalloc.no_block_alloc decreased by 12.61%, 5.78%, and 6.87%,
respectively.  HITM samples for the affected cache line and total HITM
samples decreased by 96.55% and 13.36%, respectively.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260825104659.100134-1-jonaszhou-oc@zhaoxin.com
Signed-off-by: JonasZhou <jonaszhou-oc@zhaoxin.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: <jianhuizzzzz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/vmalloc.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-avoid-false-sharing-with-drain_vmap_work
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1089,7 +1089,12 @@ RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS_MAX(static, free_vm
 static void reclaim_and_purge_vmap_areas(void);
 static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(vmap_notify_list);
 static void drain_vmap_area_work(struct work_struct *work);
-static DECLARE_WORK(drain_vmap_work, drain_vmap_area_work);
+/*
+ * Keep the work item, whose pending bit is updated by freeing CPUs,
+ * away from vmap metadata read by allocation and free paths.
+ */
+static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp
+DECLARE_WORK(drain_vmap_work, drain_vmap_area_work);
 
 static __cacheline_aligned_in_smp atomic_long_t vmap_lazy_nr;
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from jonaszhou-oc@zhaoxin.com are

mm-vmalloc-avoid-false-sharing-with-drain_vmap_work.patch