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Subject[PATCH v5 00/7] Drain remote per-cpu directly
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This replaces the existing version on mm-unstable. While there are
some fixes, this is mostly refactoring of patch 5 based on Vlastimil's
feedback to reduce churn in later patches. The level of refactoring made
-fix patches excessively complicated.

Changelog since v4
o Fix lockdep issues in patch 7
o Refactor patch 5 to reduce churn in patches 6 and 7
o Rebase to 5.19-rc3

Some setups, notably NOHZ_FULL CPUs, may be running realtime or
latency-sensitive applications that cannot tolerate interference due to
per-cpu drain work queued by __drain_all_pages(). Introduce a new
mechanism to remotely drain the per-cpu lists. It is made possible by
remotely locking 'struct per_cpu_pages' new per-cpu spinlocks. This has
two advantages, the time to drain is more predictable and other unrelated
tasks are not interrupted.

This series has the same intent as Nicolas' series "mm/page_alloc: Remote
per-cpu lists drain support" -- avoid interference of a high priority task
due to a workqueue item draining per-cpu page lists. While many workloads
can tolerate a brief interruption, it may cause a real-time task running
on a NOHZ_FULL CPU to miss a deadline and at minimum, the draining is
non-deterministic.

Currently an IRQ-safe local_lock protects the page allocator per-cpu
lists. The local_lock on its own prevents migration and the IRQ disabling
protects from corruption due to an interrupt arriving while a page
allocation is in progress.

This series adjusts the locking. A spinlock is added to struct
per_cpu_pages to protect the list contents while local_lock_irq is
ultimately replaced by just the spinlock in the final patch. This allows
a remote CPU to safely. Follow-on work should allow the spin_lock_irqsave
to be converted to spin_lock to avoid IRQs being disabled/enabled in
most cases. The follow-on patch will be one kernel release later as it
is relatively high risk and it'll make bisections more clear if there
are any problems.

Patch 1 is a cosmetic patch to clarify when page->lru is storing buddy pages
and when it is storing per-cpu pages.

Patch 2 shrinks per_cpu_pages to make room for a spin lock. Strictly speaking
this is not necessary but it avoids per_cpu_pages consuming another
cache line.

Patch 3 is a preparation patch to avoid code duplication.

Patch 4 is a minor correction.

Patch 5 uses a spin_lock to protect the per_cpu_pages contents while still
relying on local_lock to prevent migration, stabilise the pcp
lookup and prevent IRQ reentrancy.

Patch 6 remote drains per-cpu pages directly instead of using a workqueue.

Patch 7 uses a normal spinlock instead of local_lock for remote draining

Nicolas Saenz Julienne (1):
mm/page_alloc: Remotely drain per-cpu lists

include/linux/mm_types.h | 5 +
include/linux/mmzone.h | 12 +-
mm/page_alloc.c | 386 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
3 files changed, 250 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)

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