tree af031f22aa45f1c7140bbe670b69b72994facc4f
parent 4db7548ccbd9ec8e666f35df4a530f55904dec39
author Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 1463703275 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1463710334 -0700

mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP

Every page allocated checks a number of page fields for validity.  This
catches corruption bugs of pages that are already freed but it is
expensive.  This patch weakens the debugging check by checking PCP pages
only when the PCP lists are being refilled.  All compound pages are
checked.  This potentially avoids debugging checks entirely if the PCP
lists are never emptied and refilled so some corruption issues may be
missed.  Full checking requires DEBUG_VM.

With the two deferred debugging patches applied, the impact to a page
allocator microbenchmark is

                                             4.6.0-rc3                  4.6.0-rc3
                                           inline-v3r6            deferalloc-v3r7
  Min      alloc-odr0-1               344.00 (  0.00%)           317.00 (  7.85%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2               248.00 (  0.00%)           231.00 (  6.85%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4               209.00 (  0.00%)           192.00 (  8.13%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8               181.00 (  0.00%)           166.00 (  8.29%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16              168.00 (  0.00%)           154.00 (  8.33%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-32              161.00 (  0.00%)           148.00 (  8.07%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-64              158.00 (  0.00%)           145.00 (  8.23%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-128             156.00 (  0.00%)           143.00 (  8.33%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-256             168.00 (  0.00%)           154.00 (  8.33%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-512             178.00 (  0.00%)           167.00 (  6.18%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-1024            186.00 (  0.00%)           174.00 (  6.45%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-2048            192.00 (  0.00%)           180.00 (  6.25%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-4096            198.00 (  0.00%)           184.00 (  7.07%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-8192            200.00 (  0.00%)           188.00 (  6.00%)
  Min      alloc-odr0-16384           201.00 (  0.00%)           188.00 (  6.47%)
  Min      free-odr0-1                189.00 (  0.00%)           180.00 (  4.76%)
  Min      free-odr0-2                132.00 (  0.00%)           126.00 (  4.55%)
  Min      free-odr0-4                104.00 (  0.00%)            99.00 (  4.81%)
  Min      free-odr0-8                 90.00 (  0.00%)            85.00 (  5.56%)
  Min      free-odr0-16                84.00 (  0.00%)            80.00 (  4.76%)
  Min      free-odr0-32                80.00 (  0.00%)            76.00 (  5.00%)
  Min      free-odr0-64                78.00 (  0.00%)            74.00 (  5.13%)
  Min      free-odr0-128               77.00 (  0.00%)            73.00 (  5.19%)
  Min      free-odr0-256               94.00 (  0.00%)            91.00 (  3.19%)
  Min      free-odr0-512              108.00 (  0.00%)           112.00 ( -3.70%)
  Min      free-odr0-1024             115.00 (  0.00%)           118.00 ( -2.61%)
  Min      free-odr0-2048             120.00 (  0.00%)           125.00 ( -4.17%)
  Min      free-odr0-4096             123.00 (  0.00%)           129.00 ( -4.88%)
  Min      free-odr0-8192             126.00 (  0.00%)           130.00 ( -3.17%)
  Min      free-odr0-16384            126.00 (  0.00%)           131.00 ( -3.97%)

Note that the free paths for large numbers of pages is impacted as the
debugging cost gets shifted into that path when the page data is no
longer necessarily cache-hot.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>