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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>2021-06-28 19:42:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-06-29 10:53:55 -0700
commit74f44822097c665041010994502b5971d6cd9f04 (patch)
tree308a8f1e7f8087b1f39ea0bc87813ae7c5519186 /kernel/sysctl.c
parentc49c2c47dab6b8d45022b3fabf0642a0e62e3109 (diff)
downloadlinux-74f44822097c665041010994502b5971d6cd9f04.tar.gz
mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
This introduces a new sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction.  It is
similar to the old vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction.  The old sysctl increased
both pcp->batch and pcp->high with the higher pcp->high potentially
reducing zone->lock contention.  However, the higher pcp->batch value also
potentially increased allocation latency while the PCP was refilled.  This
sysctl only adjusts pcp->high so that zone->lock contention is potentially
reduced but allocation latency during a PCP refill remains the same.

  # grep -E "high:|batch" /proc/zoneinfo | tail -2
              high:  649
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=8
  # grep -E "high:|batch" /proc/zoneinfo | tail -2
              high:  35071
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=64
              high:  4383
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=0
              high:  649
              batch: 63

[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix documentation]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210528151010.GQ30378@techsingularity.net

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525080119.5455-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 51213c33171e..69d925f1e5da 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2909,6 +2909,14 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 		.extra2		= &one_thousand,
 	},
 	{
+		.procname	= "percpu_pagelist_high_fraction",
+		.data		= &percpu_pagelist_high_fraction,
+		.maxlen		= sizeof(percpu_pagelist_high_fraction),
+		.mode		= 0644,
+		.proc_handler	= percpu_pagelist_high_fraction_sysctl_handler,
+		.extra1		= SYSCTL_ZERO,
+	},
+	{
 		.procname	= "page_lock_unfairness",
 		.data		= &sysctl_page_lock_unfairness,
 		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_page_lock_unfairness),