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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/4] percpu: partial chunk depopulation
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:50:43PM +0000, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This series is a continuation of Roman's series in [1]. It aims to solve
> chunks holding onto free pages by adding a reclaim process to the percpu
> balance work item.
>
> The main difference is that the nr_empty_pop_pages is now managed at
> time of isolation instead of intermixed. This helps with deciding which
> chunks to free instead of having to interleave returning chunks to
> active duty.
>
> The allocation priority is as follows:
> 1) appropriate chunk slot increasing until fit
> 2) sidelined chunks
> 3) full free chunks
>
> The last slot for to_depopulate is never used for allocations.
>
> A big thanks to Roman for initiating the work and being available for
> iterating on these ideas.
>
> This patchset contains the following 4 patches:
> 0001-percpu-factor-out-pcpu_check_block_hint.patch
> 0002-percpu-use-pcpu_free_slot-instead-of-pcpu_nr_slots-1.patch
> 0003-percpu-implement-partial-chunk-depopulation.patch
> 0004-percpu-use-reclaim-threshold-instead-of-running-for-.patch
>
> 0001 and 0002 are clean ups. 0003 implement partial chunk depopulation
> initially from Roman. 0004 adds a reclaim threshold so we do not need to
> schedule for every page freed.
>
> This series is on top of percpu$for-5.14 67c2669d69fb.
>
> diffstats below:
>
> Dennis Zhou (2):
> percpu: use pcpu_free_slot instead of pcpu_nr_slots - 1
> percpu: use reclaim threshold instead of running for every page
>
> Roman Gushchin (2):
> percpu: factor out pcpu_check_block_hint()
> percpu: implement partial chunk depopulation
>
> mm/percpu-internal.h | 5 +
> mm/percpu-km.c | 5 +
> mm/percpu-stats.c | 20 ++--
> mm/percpu-vm.c | 30 ++++++
> mm/percpu.c | 252 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 5 files changed, 278 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis

I've applied this to for-5.14 with 1 modification to the batching
threshold, 4 pages is quite little, so make it 16.

Thanks,
Dennis

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