tree 694ad429670e3e57ca95c76029b7ff386dc64e07
parent ebe75e4751063dce6f61b579b43de86dcf7b7462
author Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> 1676291683 +0800
committer Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 1676609034 -0800

migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB

The TLB flushing will cost quite some CPU cycles during the folio
migration in some situations.  For example, when migrate a folio of a
process with multiple active threads that run on multiple CPUs.  After
batching the _unmap and _move in migrate_pages(), the TLB flushing can be
batched easily with the existing TLB flush batching mechanism.  This patch
implements that.

We use the following test case to test the patch.

On a 2-socket Intel server,

- Run pmbench memory accessing benchmark

- Run `migratepages` to migrate pages of pmbench between node 0 and
  node 1 back and forth.

With the patch, the TLB flushing IPI reduces 99.1% during the test and the
number of pages migrated successfully per second increases 291.7%.

Haoxin helped to test the patchset on an ARM64 server with 128 cores, 2
NUMA nodes.  Test results show that the page migration performance
increases up to 78%.

NOTE: TLB flushing is batched only for normal folios, not for THP folios. 
Because the overhead of TLB flushing for THP folios is much lower than
that for normal folios (about 1/512 on x86 platform).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230213123444.155149-9-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>