Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] THP: avoid lock when check whether THP is in deferred list

Kirill A. Shutemov
2023-04-25T12:39:08Z

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 04:46:26PM +0800, Yin Fengwei wrote:
> free_transhuge_page() acquires split queue lock then check
> whether the THP was added to deferred list or not.
>
> It's safe to check whether the THP is in deferred list or not.
> When code hit free_transhuge_page(), there is no one tries
> to update the folio's _deferred_list.
>
> If folio is not in deferred_list, it's safe to check without
> acquiring lock.
>
> If folio is in deferred_list, the other node in deferred_list
> adding/deleteing doesn't impact the return value of
> list_epmty(@folio->_deferred_list).

Typo.

>
> Running page_fault1 of will-it-scale + order 2 folio for anonymous
> mapping with 96 processes on an Ice Lake 48C/96T test box, we could
> see the 61% split_queue_lock contention:
> - 71.28% 0.35% page_fault1_pro [kernel.kallsyms] [k]
> release_pages
> - 70.93% release_pages
> - 61.42% free_transhuge_page
> + 60.77% _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
>
> With this patch applied, the split_queue_lock contention is less
> than 1%.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
> ---
> mm/huge_memory.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index 032fb0ef9cd1..c620f1f12247 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2799,12 +2799,25 @@ void free_transhuge_page(struct page *page)
> struct deferred_split *ds_queue = get_deferred_split_queue(folio);
> unsigned long flags;
>
> - spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags);
> - if (!list_empty(&folio->_deferred_list)) {
> + /*
> + * At this point, there is no one trying to queue the folio
> + * to deferred_list. folio->_deferred_list is not possible
> + * being updated.
> + *
> + * If folio is already added to deferred_list, add/delete to/from
> + * deferred_list will not impact list_empty(&folio->_deferred_list).
> + * It's safe to check list_empty(&folio->_deferred_list) without
> + * acquiring the lock.
> + *
> + * If folio is not in deferred_list, it's safe to check without
> + * acquiring the lock.
> + */
> + if (data_race(!list_empty(&folio->_deferred_list))) {
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags);

Recheck under lock?

> ds_queue->split_queue_len--;
> list_del(&folio->_deferred_list);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags);
> }
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock, flags);
> free_compound_page(page);
> }
>
> --
> 2.30.2
>
>

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