Patch series "Follow-up for speed up page cache truncation", v2.
This series is a follow-on for Jan Kara's series "Speed up page cache
truncation" series. We both ended up looking at the same problem but
saw different problems based on the same data. This series builds upon
his work.
A variety of workloads were compared on four separate machines but each
machine showed gains albeit at different levels. Minimally, some of the
differences are due to NUMA where truncating data from a remote node is
slower than a local node. The workloads checked were
o sparse truncate microbenchmark, tiny
o sparse truncate microbenchmark, large
o reaim-io disk workfile
o dbench4 (modified by mmtests to produce more stable results)
o filebench varmail configuration for small memory size
o bonnie, directory operations, working set size 2*RAM
reaim-io, dbench and filebench all showed minor gains. Truncation does
not dominate those workloads but were tested to ensure no other
regressions. They will not be reported further.
The sparse truncate microbench was written by Jan. It creates a number
of files and then times how long it takes to truncate each one. The
"tiny" configuraiton creates a number of files that easily fits in
memory and times how long it takes to truncate files with page cache.
The large configuration uses enough files to have data that is twice the
size of memory and so timings there include truncating page cache and
working set shadow entries in the radix tree.
Patches 1-4 are the most relevant parts of this series. Patches 5-8 are
optional as they are deleting code that is essentially useless but has a
negligible performance impact.
The changelogs have more information on performance but just for bonnie
delete options, the main comparison is
bonnie
4.14.0-rc5 4.14.0-rc5 4.14.0-rc5
jan-v2 vanilla mel-v2
Hmean SeqCreate ops 76.20 ( 0.00%) 75.80 ( -0.53%) 76.80 ( 0.79%)
Hmean SeqCreate read 85.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 ( 0.00%)
Hmean SeqCreate del 13752.31 ( 0.00%) 12090.23 ( -12.09%) 15304.84 ( 11.29%)
Hmean RandCreate ops 76.00 ( 0.00%) 75.60 ( -0.53%) 77.00 ( 1.32%)
Hmean RandCreate read 96.80 ( 0.00%) 96.80 ( 0.00%) 97.00 ( 0.21%)
Hmean RandCreate del 13233.75 ( 0.00%) 11525.35 ( -12.91%) 14446.61 ( 9.16%)
Jan's series is the baseline and the vanilla kernel is 12% slower where
as this series on top gains another 11%. This is from a different
machine than the data in the changelogs but the detailed data was not
collected as there was no substantial change in v2.
This patch (of 8):
Freeing a list of pages current enables/disables IRQs for each page
freed. This patch splits freeing a list of pages into two operations --
preparing the pages for freeing and the actual freeing. This is a
tradeoff - we're taking two passes of the list to free in exchange for
avoiding multiple enable/disable of IRQs.
sparsetruncate (tiny)
4.14.0-rc4 4.14.0-rc4
janbatch-v1r1 oneirq-v1r1
Min Time 149.00 ( 0.00%) 141.00 ( 5.37%)
1st-qrtle Time 150.00 ( 0.00%) 142.00 ( 5.33%)
2nd-qrtle Time 151.00 ( 0.00%) 142.00 ( 5.96%)
3rd-qrtle Time 151.00 ( 0.00%) 143.00 ( 5.30%)
Max-90% Time 153.00 ( 0.00%) 144.00 ( 5.88%)
Max-95% Time 155.00 ( 0.00%) 147.00 ( 5.16%)
Max-99% Time 201.00 ( 0.00%) 195.00 ( 2.99%)
Max Time 236.00 ( 0.00%) 230.00 ( 2.54%)
Amean Time 152.65 ( 0.00%) 144.37 ( 5.43%)
Stddev Time 9.78 ( 0.00%) 10.44 ( -6.72%)
Coeff Time 6.41 ( 0.00%) 7.23 ( -12.84%)
Best99%Amean Time 152.07 ( 0.00%) 143.72 ( 5.50%)
Best95%Amean Time 150.75 ( 0.00%) 142.37 ( 5.56%)
Best90%Amean Time 150.59 ( 0.00%) 142.19 ( 5.58%)
Best75%Amean Time 150.36 ( 0.00%) 141.92 ( 5.61%)
Best50%Amean Time 150.04 ( 0.00%) 141.69 ( 5.56%)
Best25%Amean Time 149.85 ( 0.00%) 141.38 ( 5.65%)
With a tiny number of files, each file truncated has resident page cache
and it shows that time to truncate is roughtly 5-6% with some minor
jitter.
4.14.0-rc4 4.14.0-rc4
janbatch-v1r1 oneirq-v1r1
Hmean SeqCreate ops 65.27 ( 0.00%) 81.86 ( 25.43%)
Hmean SeqCreate read 39.48 ( 0.00%) 47.44 ( 20.16%)
Hmean SeqCreate del 24963.95 ( 0.00%) 26319.99 ( 5.43%)
Hmean RandCreate ops 65.47 ( 0.00%) 82.01 ( 25.26%)
Hmean RandCreate read 42.04 ( 0.00%) 51.75 ( 23.09%)
Hmean RandCreate del 23377.66 ( 0.00%) 23764.79 ( 1.66%)
As expected, there is a small gain for the delete operation.
[mgorman@techsingularity.net: use page_private and set_page_private helpers]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018101547.mjycw7zreb66jzpa@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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