mm: increase folio batch size
authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:08:21 +0000 (14:08 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:07:20 +0000 (11:07 -0700)
commit9cecde80aae0fb0aa44425575d5aca71bc646d89
treea83f883a6029075b4b69be99e80decc8db3ba56b
parent7844c01472119f55bd9a107a4578a6d26be04c46
mm: increase folio batch size

On a 104 thread, 2 socket Skylake system, Intel report a 4.7% performance
reduction with will-it-scale page_fault2.  This was due to reducing the
size of the batch from 32 to 15.  Increasing the folio batch size from 15
to 31 gives a performance increase of 12.5% relative to the original, or
17.2% relative to the reduced performance commit.

The penalty of this commit is an additional 128 bytes of stack usage.  Six
folio_batches are also allocated from percpu memory in cpu_fbatches so
that will be an additional 768 bytes of percpu memory (per CPU).  Tim Chen
originally submitted a patch like this in 2020:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/d1cc9f12a8ad6c2a52cb600d93b06b064f2bbc57.1593205965.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240315140823.2478146-1-willy@infradead.org
Fixes: 99fbb6bfc16f ("mm: make folios_put() the basis of release_pages()")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202403151058.7048f6a8-oliver.sang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/pagevec.h