linux_dsm_epyc7002/mm
Shaohua Li 23955622ff swap: add block io poll in swapin path
For fast flash disk, async IO could introduce overhead because of
context switch.  block-mq now supports IO poll, which improves
performance and latency a lot.  swapin is a good place to use this
technique, because the task is waiting for the swapin page to continue
execution.

In my virtual machine, directly read 4k data from a NVMe with iopoll is
about 60% better than that without poll.  With iopoll support in swapin
patch, my microbenchmark (a task does random memory write) is about
10%~25% faster.  CPU utilization increases a lot though, 2x and even 3x
CPU utilization.  This will depend on disk speed.

While iopoll in swapin isn't intended for all usage cases, it's a win
for latency sensistive workloads with high speed swap disk.  block layer
has knob to control poll in runtime.  If poll isn't enabled in block
layer, there should be no noticeable change in swapin.

I got a chance to run the same test in a NVMe with DRAM as the media.
In simple fio IO test, blkpoll boosts 50% performance in single thread
test and ~20% in 8 threads test.  So this is the base line.  In above
swap test, blkpoll boosts ~27% performance in single thread test.
blkpoll uses 2x CPU time though.

If we enable hybid polling, the performance gain has very slight drop
but CPU time is only 50% worse than that without blkpoll.  Also we can
adjust parameter of hybid poll, with it, the CPU time penality is
reduced further.  In 8 threads test, blkpoll doesn't help though.  The
performance is similar to that without blkpoll, but cpu utilization is
similar too.  There is lock contention in swap path.  The cpu time
spending on blkpoll isn't high.  So overall, blkpoll swapin isn't worse
than that without it.

The swapin readahead might read several pages in in the same time and
form a big IO request.  Since the IO will take longer time, it doesn't
make sense to do poll, so the patch only does iopoll for single page
swapin.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/070c3c3e40b711e7b1390002c991e86a-b5408f0@7511894063d3764ff01ea8111f5a004d7dd700ed078797c204a24e620ddb965c
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
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kasan Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-05-10 10:30:46 -07:00
backing-dev.c bdi: Drop 'parent' argument from bdi_register[_va]() 2017-04-20 12:09:55 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: balloon: use general non-lru movable page feature 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: cosmetic improvement of code readability 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
cleancache.c fs: switch ->s_uuid to uuid_t 2017-06-05 16:59:12 +02:00
cma_debug.c cma: Store a name in the cma structure 2017-04-18 20:41:12 +02:00
cma.c cma: Introduce cma_for_each_area 2017-04-18 20:41:12 +02:00
cma.h cma: Store a name in the cma structure 2017-04-18 20:41:12 +02:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: skip over holes in __reset_isolation_suitable 2017-07-06 16:24:32 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c mm/page_ref: add tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
debug.c mm, debug: print raw struct page data in __dump_page() 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
dmapool.c lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
early_ioremap.c mm/early_ioremap: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
fadvise.c mm: fadvise: avoid expensive remote LRU cache draining after FADV_DONTNEED 2016-12-20 09:48:46 -08:00
failslab.c mm: fault-inject take over bootstrap kmem_cache check 2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
filemap.c Writeback error handling fixes (pile #2) 2017-07-07 19:38:17 -07:00
frame_vector.c treewide: use kv[mz]alloc* rather than opencoded variants 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
frontswap.c mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to static key 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
gup.c mm, gup: ensure real head page is ref-counted when using hugepages 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
highmem.c mm/highmem: make nr_free_highpages() handles all highmem zones by itself 2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm, THP, swap: check whether THP can be split firstly 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm, hugetlb_cgroup: round limit_in_bytes down to hugepage size 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm, page_alloc: pass preferred nid instead of zonelist to allocator 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm: hwpoison: call shake_page() unconditionally 2017-05-03 15:52:12 -07:00
init-mm.c mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks 2016-11-22 11:49:48 -06:00
internal.h mm, compaction: finish whole pageblock to reduce fragmentation 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
interval_tree.c mm: replace vma->sharead.linear with vma->shared 2015-02-10 14:30:31 -08:00
Kconfig powerpc updates for 4.13 2017-07-07 13:55:45 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
khugepaged.c mm, thp: remove cond_resched from __collapse_huge_page_copy 2017-06-23 16:15:55 -07:00
kmemcheck.c mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
kmemleak-test.c mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level> 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
ksm.c ksm: optimize refile of stable_node_dup at the head of the chain 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: avoid error-path NULL pointer deref 2016-10-27 18:43:42 -07:00
maccess.c x86: remove more uaccess_32.h complexity 2016-05-22 17:21:27 -07:00
madvise.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
Makefile percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs 2017-06-20 15:31:38 -04:00
memblock.c mm, memory_hotplug: move movable_node to the hotplug proper 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm, memory_hotplug: move movable_node to the hotplug proper 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
memory-failure.c Writeback error handling fixes (pile #2) 2017-07-07 19:38:17 -07:00
memory.c mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim stats 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm, mempolicy: don't check cpuset seqlock where it doesn't matter 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
mempool.c sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t 2017-06-20 12:18:27 +02:00
memtest.c memtest: remove unused header files 2015-09-08 15:35:28 -07:00
migrate.c mm/hugetlb/migration: use set_huge_pte_at instead of set_pte_at 2017-07-06 16:24:33 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove shmem_mapping() shmem_zero_setup() duplicates 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
mlock.c mlock: fix mlock count can not decrease in race condition 2017-06-02 15:07:38 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level> 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2017-07-08 12:17:25 -07:00
mmu_context.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: Use static initialization for "srcu" 2017-04-18 11:38:22 -07:00
mmzone.c mm/mmzone.c: swap likely to unlikely as code logic is different for next_zones_zonelist() 2017-02-22 16:41:29 -08:00
mprotect.c mm: drop NULL return check of pte_offset_map_lock() 2017-07-06 16:24:33 -07:00
mremap.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
msync.c mm/msync: use offset_in_page macro 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
nobootmem.c mm/nobootmem.c: return 0 when start_pfn equals end_pfn 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
nommu.c mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly 2017-05-08 17:15:13 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm/oom_kill: count global and memory cgroup oom kills 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm, memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
page_counter.c mm: page_counter: let page_counter_try_charge() return bool 2015-11-05 19:34:48 -08:00
page_ext.c mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: make rmap_one boolean function 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_io.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: __first_valid_page skip over offline pages 2017-07-06 16:24:32 -07:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner: don't define fields on struct page_ext by hard-coding 2016-10-07 18:46:27 -07:00
page_poison.c mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
page-writeback.c Writeback error handling fixes (pile #1) 2017-07-07 18:39:15 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
percpu-internal.h percpu: fix early calls for spinlock in pcpu_stats 2017-06-21 13:53:52 -04:00
percpu-km.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu-stats.c percpu: expose statistics about percpu memory via debugfs 2017-06-20 15:31:38 -04:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu.c percpu: resolve err may not be initialized in pcpu_alloc 2017-06-21 12:00:45 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
process_vm_access.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
quicklist.c fix Christoph's email addresses 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
readahead.c mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
rmap.c mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
rodata_test.c mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -07:00
shmem.c mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim stats 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
slab_common.c mm: allow slab_nomerge to be set at build time 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
slab.c mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
slab.h mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
slob.c mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2017-04-18 11:42:36 -07:00
slub.c mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online 2017-07-06 16:24:32 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP during swap out 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
swap_slots.c mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP during swap out 2017-07-06 16:24:31 -07:00
swap_state.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
swap.c mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim stats 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
swapfile.c swap: add block io poll in swapin path 2017-07-10 16:32:30 -07:00
truncate.c mm: fix data corruption due to stale mmap reads 2017-05-12 15:57:15 -07:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check 2017-04-05 12:30:18 -07:00
userfaultfd.c mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
util.c mm: clarify why we want kmalloc before falling backto vmallock 2017-06-02 15:07:37 -07:00
vmacache.c sched/headers: Prepare to move 'init_task' and 'init_thread_union' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
vmalloc.c mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm: correct the comment when reclaimed pages exceed the scanned pages 2017-06-17 06:37:05 +09:00
vmscan.c mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
workingset.c mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00
z3fold.c z3fold: fix page locking in z3fold_alloc() 2017-04-13 18:24:20 -07:00
zbud.c mm/zbud.c: use list_last_entry() instead of list_tail_entry() 2016-01-15 11:40:52 -08:00
zpool.c mm: zsmalloc: constify struct zs_pool name 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: expand class bit 2017-04-13 18:24:21 -07:00
zswap.c mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00