From f0432d159601f96839f514f286eaa5b75c4112dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:37:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag PF_MEMPOLICY is an unnecessary optimization for CONFIG_SLAB users. There's no significant performance degradation to checking current->mempolicy rather than current->flags & PF_MEMPOLICY in the allocation path, especially since this is considered unlikely(). Running TCP_RR with netperf-2.4.5 through localhost on 16 cpu machine with 64GB of memory and without a mempolicy: threads before after 16 1249409 1244487 32 1281786 1246783 48 1239175 1239138 64 1244642 1241841 80 1244346 1248918 96 1266436 1254316 112 1307398 1312135 128 1327607 1326502 Per-process flags are a scarce resource so we should free them up whenever possible and make them available. We'll be using it shortly for memcg oom reserves. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Jianguo Wu Cc: Tim Hockin Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mempolicy.h | 1 - include/linux/sched.h | 1 - kernel/fork.c | 1 - mm/mempolicy.c | 31 ------------------------------- mm/slab.c | 4 ++-- 5 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h index cfe55dfca015..3c1b968da0ca 100644 --- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h +++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h @@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ extern void numa_policy_init(void); extern void mpol_rebind_task(struct task_struct *tsk, const nodemask_t *new, enum mpol_rebind_step step); extern void mpol_rebind_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, nodemask_t *new); -extern void mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(struct task_struct *p); extern struct zonelist *huge_zonelist(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags, diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 642477dd814a..6c70645eb3b6 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1851,7 +1851,6 @@ extern void thread_group_cputime_adjusted(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut, #define PF_SPREAD_SLAB 0x02000000 /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */ #define PF_NO_SETAFFINITY 0x04000000 /* Userland is not allowed to meddle with cpus_allowed */ #define PF_MCE_EARLY 0x08000000 /* Early kill for mce process policy */ -#define PF_MEMPOLICY 0x10000000 /* Non-default NUMA mempolicy */ #define PF_MUTEX_TESTER 0x20000000 /* Thread belongs to the rt mutex tester */ #define PF_FREEZER_SKIP 0x40000000 /* Freezer should not count it as freezable */ #define PF_SUSPEND_TASK 0x80000000 /* this thread called freeze_processes and should not be frozen */ diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index c777964c0662..e905e9c6b224 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1276,7 +1276,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags, p->mempolicy = NULL; goto bad_fork_cleanup_threadgroup_lock; } - mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(p); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS p->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor = NUMA_NO_NODE; diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 0ad0ba31979f..78e1472933ea 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -795,36 +795,6 @@ static int mbind_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, return err; } -/* - * Update task->flags PF_MEMPOLICY bit: set iff non-default - * mempolicy. Allows more rapid checking of this (combined perhaps - * with other PF_* flag bits) on memory allocation hot code paths. - * - * If called from outside this file, the task 'p' should -only- be - * a newly forked child not yet visible on the task list, because - * manipulating the task flags of a visible task is not safe. - * - * The above limitation is why this routine has the funny name - * mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(). - * - * It is also safe to call this with a task pointer of current, - * which the static wrapper mpol_set_task_struct_flag() does, - * for use within this file. - */ - -void mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(struct task_struct *p) -{ - if (p->mempolicy) - p->flags |= PF_MEMPOLICY; - else - p->flags &= ~PF_MEMPOLICY; -} - -static void mpol_set_task_struct_flag(void) -{ - mpol_fix_fork_child_flag(current); -} - /* Set the process memory policy */ static long do_set_mempolicy(unsigned short mode, unsigned short flags, nodemask_t *nodes) @@ -861,7 +831,6 @@ static long do_set_mempolicy(unsigned short mode, unsigned short flags, } old = current->mempolicy; current->mempolicy = new; - mpol_set_task_struct_flag(); if (new && new->mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE && nodes_weight(new->v.nodes)) current->il_next = first_node(new->v.nodes); diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 4b17f4c2e92d..3db4cb06e32e 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -3027,7 +3027,7 @@ out: #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA /* - * Try allocating on another node if PF_SPREAD_SLAB|PF_MEMPOLICY. + * Try allocating on another node if PF_SPREAD_SLAB is a mempolicy is set. * * If we are in_interrupt, then process context, including cpusets and * mempolicy, may not apply and should not be used for allocation policy. @@ -3259,7 +3259,7 @@ __do_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t flags) { void *objp; - if (unlikely(current->flags & (PF_SPREAD_SLAB | PF_MEMPOLICY))) { + if (current->mempolicy || unlikely(current->flags & PF_SPREAD_SLAB)) { objp = alternate_node_alloc(cache, flags); if (objp) goto out; -- 2.20.1