Re: [PATCH v9 06/12] mm: zero struct pages during initialization

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 20-09-17 16:17:08, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> Add struct page zeroing as a part of initialization of other fields in
> __init_single_page().
> 
> This single thread performance collected on: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8895
> v3 @ 2.60GHz with 1T of memory (268400646 pages in 8 nodes):
> 
>                         BASE            FIX
> sparse_init     11.244671836s   0.007199623s
> zone_sizes_init  4.879775891s   8.355182299s
>                   --------------------------
> Total           16.124447727s   8.362381922s

Hmm, this is confusing. This assumes that sparse_init doesn't zero pages
anymore, right? So these number depend on the last patch in the series?

> sparse_init is where memory for struct pages is zeroed, and the zeroing
> part is moved later in this patch into __init_single_page(), which is
> called from zone_sizes_init().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h | 9 +++++++++
>  mm/page_alloc.c    | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index f8c10d336e42..50b74d628243 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -94,6 +94,15 @@ extern int mmap_rnd_compat_bits __read_mostly;
>  #define mm_forbids_zeropage(X)	(0)
>  #endif
>  
> +/*
> + * On some architectures it is expensive to call memset() for small sizes.
> + * Those architectures should provide their own implementation of "struct page"
> + * zeroing by defining this macro in <asm/pgtable.h>.
> + */
> +#ifndef mm_zero_struct_page
> +#define mm_zero_struct_page(pp)  ((void)memset((pp), 0, sizeof(struct page)))
> +#endif
> +
>  /*
>   * Default maximum number of active map areas, this limits the number of vmas
>   * per mm struct. Users can overwrite this number by sysctl but there is a
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index a8dbd405ed94..4b630ee91430 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -1170,6 +1170,7 @@ static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone,
>  static void __meminit __init_single_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
>  				unsigned long zone, int nid)
>  {
> +	mm_zero_struct_page(page);
>  	set_page_links(page, zone, nid, pfn);
>  	init_page_count(page);
>  	page_mapcount_reset(page);
> -- 
> 2.14.1

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs