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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>2016-05-19 17:13:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-19 19:12:14 -0700
commit175145748d00794369317070dd19ce12dd816241 (patch)
tree967976096168df6f2abec949fa99004182dae358 /include
parentd61f8590397480981f0d3ee7a2b38b5ea990db52 (diff)
downloadlinux-175145748d00794369317070dd19ce12dd816241.tar.gz
mm, page_alloc: use new PageAnonHead helper in the free page fast path
The PageAnon check always checks for compound_head but this is a
relatively expensive check if the caller already knows the page is a
head page.  This patch creates a helper and uses it in the page free
path which only operates on head pages.

With this patch and "Only check PageCompound for high-order pages", the
performance difference on a page allocator microbenchmark is;

                                             4.6.0-rc2                  4.6.0-rc2
                                               vanilla           nocompound-v1r20
  Min      alloc-odr0-1               425.00 (  0.00%)           417.00 (  1.88%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2               313.00 (  0.00%)           308.00 (  1.60%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4               257.00 (  0.00%)           253.00 (  1.56%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8               224.00 (  0.00%)           221.00 (  1.34%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16              208.00 (  0.00%)           205.00 (  1.44%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-32              199.00 (  0.00%)           199.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-64              195.00 (  0.00%)           193.00 (  1.03%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-128             192.00 (  0.00%)           191.00 (  0.52%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-256             204.00 (  0.00%)           200.00 (  1.96%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-512             213.00 (  0.00%)           212.00 (  0.47%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-1024            219.00 (  0.00%)           219.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2048            225.00 (  0.00%)           225.00 (  0.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4096            230.00 (  0.00%)           231.00 ( -0.43%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8192            235.00 (  0.00%)           234.00 (  0.43%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16384           235.00 (  0.00%)           234.00 (  0.43%)
  Min      free-odr0-1                215.00 (  0.00%)           191.00 ( 11.16%)
  Min      free-odr0-2                152.00 (  0.00%)           136.00 ( 10.53%)
  Min      free-odr0-4                119.00 (  0.00%)           107.00 ( 10.08%)
  Min      free-odr0-8                106.00 (  0.00%)            96.00 (  9.43%)
  Min      free-odr0-16                97.00 (  0.00%)            87.00 ( 10.31%)
  Min      free-odr0-32                91.00 (  0.00%)            83.00 (  8.79%)
  Min      free-odr0-64                89.00 (  0.00%)            81.00 (  8.99%)
  Min      free-odr0-128               88.00 (  0.00%)            80.00 (  9.09%)
  Min      free-odr0-256              106.00 (  0.00%)            95.00 ( 10.38%)
  Min      free-odr0-512              116.00 (  0.00%)           111.00 (  4.31%)
  Min      free-odr0-1024             125.00 (  0.00%)           118.00 (  5.60%)
  Min      free-odr0-2048             133.00 (  0.00%)           126.00 (  5.26%)
  Min      free-odr0-4096             136.00 (  0.00%)           130.00 (  4.41%)
  Min      free-odr0-8192             138.00 (  0.00%)           130.00 (  5.80%)
  Min      free-odr0-16384            137.00 (  0.00%)           130.00 (  5.11%)

There is a sizable boost to the free allocator performance.  While there
is an apparent boost on the allocation side, it's likely a co-incidence
or due to the patches slightly reducing cache footprint.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/page-flags.h7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 6b052aa7b5b7..a61e06e5fbce 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -371,10 +371,15 @@ PAGEFLAG(Idle, idle, PF_ANY)
 #define PAGE_MAPPING_KSM	2
 #define PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS	(PAGE_MAPPING_ANON | PAGE_MAPPING_KSM)
 
+static __always_inline int PageAnonHead(struct page *page)
+{
+	return ((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON) != 0;
+}
+
 static __always_inline int PageAnon(struct page *page)
 {
 	page = compound_head(page);
-	return ((unsigned long)page->mapping & PAGE_MAPPING_ANON) != 0;
+	return PageAnonHead(page);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KSM