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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>2016-05-20 02:13:21 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-20 04:12:14 +0200
commit175145748d00794369317070dd19ce12dd816241 (patch)
tree967976096168df6f2abec949fa99004182dae358 /mm/page_alloc.c
parentmm, page_alloc: only check PageCompound for high-order pages (diff)
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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 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 087ba3e417ec..7be1ce8b6be0 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ static bool free_pages_prepare(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
bad += free_pages_check(page + i);
}
}
- if (PageAnon(page))
+ if (PageAnonHead(page))
page->mapping = NULL;
bad += free_pages_check(page);
if (bad)