__rmqueue(), __rmqueue_fallback(), __rmqueue_smallest() and
__rmqueue_cma_fallback() are all in page allocator's hot path and better
be finished as soon as possible. One way to make them faster is by making
them inline. But as Andrew Morton and Andi Kleen pointed out:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/10/1252https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/10/1279
To make sure they are inlined, we should use __always_inline for them.
With the will-it-scale/page_fault1/process benchmark, when using nr_cpu
processes to stress buddy, the results for will-it-scale.processes with
and without the patch are:
On a 2-sockets Intel-Skylake machine:
compiler base head
gcc-4.4.7 6496131 6911823 +6.4%
gcc-4.9.4 7225110 7731072 +7.0%
gcc-5.4.1 7054224 7688146 +9.0%
gcc-6.2.0 7059794 7651675 +8.4%
On a 4-sockets Intel-Skylake machine:
compiler base head
gcc-4.4.7 13162890 13508193 +2.6%
gcc-4.9.4 14997463 15484353 +3.2%
gcc-5.4.1 14708711 15449805 +5.0%
gcc-6.2.0 14574099 15349204 +5.3%
The above 4 compilers are used because I've done the tests through
Intel's Linux Kernel Performance(LKP) infrastructure and they are the
available compilers there.
The benefit being less on 4 sockets machine is due to the lock
contention there(perf-profile/native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath=81%) is
less severe than on the 2 sockets machine(85%).
What the benchmark does is: it forks nr_cpu processes and then each
process does the following:
1 mmap() 128M anonymous space;
2 writes to each page there to trigger actual page allocation;
3 munmap() it.
in a loop.
https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale/blob/master/tests/page_fault1.c
Binary size wise, I have locally built them with different compilers:
[aaron@aaronlu obj]$ size */*/mm/page_alloc.o
text data bss dec hex filename
37409 9904 8524 55837 da1d gcc-4.9.4/base/mm/page_alloc.o
38273 9904 8524 56701 dd7d gcc-4.9.4/head/mm/page_alloc.o
37465 9840 8428 55733 d9b5 gcc-5.5.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o
38169 9840 8428 56437 dc75 gcc-5.5.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o
37573 9840 8428 55841 da21 gcc-6.4.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o
38261 9840 8428 56529 dcd1 gcc-6.4.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o
36863 9840 8428 55131 d75b gcc-7.2.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o
37711 9840 8428 55979 daab gcc-7.2.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o
Text size increased about 800 bytes for mm/page_alloc.o.
[aaron@aaronlu obj]$ size */*/vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
10342757 5903208 17723392 33969357 20654cd gcc-4.9.4/base/vmlinux
10342757 5903208 17723392 33969357 20654cd gcc-4.9.4/head/vmlinux
10332448 5836608 17715200 33884256 2050860 gcc-5.5.0/base/vmlinux
10332448 5836608 17715200 33884256 2050860 gcc-5.5.0/head/vmlinux
10094546 5836696 17715200 33646442 201676a gcc-6.4.0/base/vmlinux
10094546 5836696 17715200 33646442 201676a gcc-6.4.0/head/vmlinux
10018775 5828732 17715200 33562707 2002053 gcc-7.2.0/base/vmlinux
10018775 5828732 17715200 33562707 2002053 gcc-7.2.0/head/vmlinux
Text size for vmlinux has no change though, probably due to function
alignment.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013063111.GA26032@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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