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mm, swap: reduce contention on device lock
Currently, swap locking is mainly composed of two locks: the cluster lock (ci->lock) and the device lock (si->lock). The cluster lock is much more fine-grained, so it is best to use ci->lock instead of si->lock as much as possible. We have cleaned up other hard dependencies on si->lock. Following the new cluster allocator design, most operations don't need to touch si->lock at all. In practice, we only need to take si->lock when moving clusters between lists. To achieve this, this commit reworks the locking pattern of all si->lock and ci->lock users, eliminates all usage of ci->lock inside si->lock, and introduces a new design to avoid touching si->lock unless needed. For minimal contention and easier understanding of the system, two ideas are introduced with the corresponding helpers: isolation and relocation. - Clusters will be `isolated` from the list when iterating the list to search for an allocatable cluster. This ensures other CPUs won't walk into the same cluster easily, and it releases si->lock after acquiring ci->lock, providing the only place that handles the inversion of two locks, and avoids contention. Iterating the cluster list almost always moves the cluster (free -> nonfull, nonfull -> frag, frag -> frag tail), but it doesn't know where the cluster should be moved to until scanning is done. So keeping the cluster off-list is a good option with low overhead. The off-list time window of a cluster is also minimal. In the worst case, one CPU will return the cluster after scanning the 512 entries on it, which we used to busy wait with a spin lock. This is done with the new helper `isolate_lock_cluster`. - Clusters will be `relocated` after allocation or freeing, according to their usage count and status. Allocations no longer hold si->lock now, and may drop ci->lock for reclaim, so the cluster could be moved to any location while no lock is held. Besides, isolation clears all flags when it takes the cluster off the list (the flags must be in sync with the list status, so cluster users don't need to touch si->lock for checking its list status). So the cluster has to be relocated to the right list according to its usage after allocation or freeing. Relocation is optional, if the cluster flags indicate it's already on the right list, it will skip touching the list or si->lock. This is done with `relocate_cluster` after allocation or with `[partial_]free_cluster` after freeing. This handled usage of all kinds of clusters in a clean way. Scanning and allocation by iterating the cluster list is handled by "isolate - <scan / allocate> - relocate". Scanning and allocation of per-CPU clusters will only involve "<scan / allocate> - relocate", as it knows which cluster to lock and use. Freeing will only involve "relocate". Each CPU will keep using its per-CPU cluster until the 512 entries are all consumed. Freeing also has to free 512 entries to trigger cluster movement in the best case, so si->lock is rarely touched. Testing with building the Linux kernel with defconfig showed huge improvement: tiem make -j96 / 768M memcg, 4K pages, 10G ZRAM, on Intel 8255C: Before: Sys time: 73578.30, Real time: 864.05 After: (-50.7% sys time, -44.8% real time) Sys time: 36227.49, Real time: 476.66 time make -j96 / 1152M memcg, 64K mTHP, 10G ZRAM, on Intel 8255C: (avg of 4 test run) Before: Sys time: 74044.85, Real time: 846.51 hugepages-64kB/stats/swpout: 1735216 hugepages-64kB/stats/swpout_fallback: 430333 After: (-40.4% sys time, -37.1% real time) Sys time: 44160.56, Real time: 532.07 hugepages-64kB/stats/swpout: 1786288 hugepages-64kB/stats/swpout_fallback: 243384 time make -j32 / 512M memcg, 4K pages, 5G ZRAM, on AMD 7K62: Before: Sys time: 8098.21, Real time: 401.3 After: (-22.6% sys time, -12.8% real time ) Sys time: 6265.02, Real time: 349.83 The allocation success rate also slightly improved as we sanitized the usage of clusters with new defined helpers, previously dropping si->lock or ci->lock during scan will cause cluster order shuffle. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250113175732.48099-10-ryncsn@gmail.com Signed-off-by:Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Suggested-by:
Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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