Re: [v4 PATCH 2/2] mm: swap: use smp_mb__after_atomic() to order LRU bit set

Johannes Weiner
2020-03-19T14:03:10Z

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:02:21AM +0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> 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")
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>