mm: vmalloc: set nr_nodes based on CPUs in a system
A number of nodes which are used in the alloc/free paths is set based on
num_possible_cpus() in a system. Please note a high limit threshold
though is fixed and corresponds to 128 nodes.
For 32-bit or single core systems an access to a global vmap heap is not
balanced. Such small systems do not suffer from lock contentions due to
low number of CPUs. In such case the nr_nodes is equal to 1.
Test on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core Processor: sudo
./test_vmalloc.sh run_test_mask=7 nr_threads=64
<default perf>
94.41% 0.89% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock
93.35% 93.07% [kernel] [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
76.13% 0.28% [kernel] [k] __vmalloc_node_range
72.96% 0.81% [kernel] [k] alloc_vmap_area
56.94% 0.00% [kernel] [k] __get_vm_area_node
41.95% 0.00% [kernel] [k] vmalloc
37.15% 0.01% [test_vmalloc] [k] full_fit_alloc_test
35.17% 0.00% [kernel] [k] ret_from_fork_asm
35.17% 0.00% [kernel] [k] ret_from_fork
35.17% 0.00% [kernel] [k] kthread
35.08% 0.00% [test_vmalloc] [k] test_func
34.45% 0.00% [test_vmalloc] [k] fix_size_alloc_test
28.09% 0.01% [test_vmalloc] [k] long_busy_list_alloc_test
23.53% 0.25% [kernel] [k] vfree.part.0
21.72% 0.00% [kernel] [k] remove_vm_area
20.08% 0.21% [kernel] [k] find_unlink_vmap_area
2.34% 0.61% [kernel] [k] free_vmap_area_noflush
<default perf>
vs
<patch-series perf>
82.32% 0.22% [test_vmalloc] [k] long_busy_list_alloc_test
63.36% 0.02% [kernel] [k] vmalloc
63.34% 2.64% [kernel] [k] __vmalloc_node_range
30.42% 4.46% [kernel] [k] vfree.part.0
28.98% 2.51% [kernel] [k] __alloc_pages_bulk
27.28% 0.19% [kernel] [k] __get_vm_area_node
26.13% 1.50% [kernel] [k] alloc_vmap_area
21.72% 21.67% [kernel] [k] clear_page_rep
19.51% 2.43% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock
16.61% 16.51% [kernel] [k] native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
13.40% 2.07% [kernel] [k] free_unref_page
10.62% 0.01% [kernel] [k] remove_vm_area
9.02% 8.73% [kernel] [k] insert_vmap_area
8.94% 0.00% [kernel] [k] ret_from_fork_asm
8.94% 0.00% [kernel] [k] ret_from_fork
8.94% 0.00% [kernel] [k] kthread
8.29% 0.00% [test_vmalloc] [k] test_func
7.81% 0.05% [test_vmalloc] [k] full_fit_alloc_test
5.30% 4.73% [kernel] [k] purge_vmap_node
4.47% 2.65% [kernel] [k] free_vmap_area_noflush
<patch-series perf>
confirms that a native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath goes down to
16.51% percent from 93.07%.
The throughput is ~12x higher:
urezki@pc638:~$ time sudo ./test_vmalloc.sh run_test_mask=7 nr_threads=64
Run the test with following parameters: run_test_mask=7 nr_threads=64
Done.
Check the kernel ring buffer to see the summary.
real 10m51.271s
user 0m0.013s
sys 0m0.187s
urezki@pc638:~$
urezki@pc638:~$ time sudo ./test_vmalloc.sh run_test_mask=7 nr_threads=64
Run the test with following parameters: run_test_mask=7 nr_threads=64
Done.
Check the kernel ring buffer to see the summary.
real 0m51.301s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.040s
urezki@pc638:~$
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240102184633.748113-11-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio-ab@nec.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sony.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>