kernel_optimize_test/fs
Davidlohr Bueso 615d6e8756 mm: per-thread vma caching
This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(),
avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults.
The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the
largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random,
thus further comparison with other approaches were needed.  There are
two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and
the latency of find_vma().  Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily
translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy
caching schemes can be too high to consider.

We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which
provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by
up to 250%, for workloads with good locality.  On the other hand, this
simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality.
Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are
running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations
below 1%.

The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread
cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost.
Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence
number.  The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq
number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are
flushed.  Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the
page number that contains the virtual address in question.  Concretely,
the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box:

1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread
   scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to
   the cache.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 50.61%   | 19.90            |
| patched        | 73.45%   | 13.58            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current
   approach as we're dealing with good locality.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 75.28%   | 11.03            |
| patched        | 88.09%   | 9.31             |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Similar to the kernel build workload.

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 70.66%   | 17.14            |
| patched        | 91.15%   | 12.57            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

4) Ebizzy: There's a fair amount of variation from run to run, but this
   approach always shows nearly perfect hit rates, while baseline is just
   about non-existent.  The amounts of cycles can fluctuate between
   anywhere from ~60 to ~116 for the baseline scheme, but this approach
   reduces it considerably.  For instance, with 80 threads:

+----------------+----------+------------------+
| caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) |
+----------------+----------+------------------+
| baseline       | 1.06%    | 91.54            |
| patched        | 99.97%   | 14.18            |
+----------------+----------+------------------+

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build, per Davidlohr]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: document vmacache_valid() logic]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to untangle header files]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add vmacache_find() BUG_ON]
[hughd@google.com: add vmacache_valid_mm() (from Oleg)]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: adjust and enhance comments]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
..
9p mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
adfs fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() 2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
affs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
afs mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
autofs4
befs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
bfs mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
btrfs mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
cachefiles Merge branch 'cross-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs 2014-04-04 14:03:05 -07:00
ceph ceph: fix __dcache_readdir() 2014-02-17 12:37:13 -08:00
cifs mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
coda Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
configfs
cramfs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
debugfs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
devpts fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() 2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
dlm dlm: use INFO for recovery messages 2014-02-14 11:54:44 -06:00
ecryptfs Merge branch 'cross-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs 2014-04-04 14:03:05 -07:00
efivarfs efivarfs: 'efivarfs_file_write' function reorganization 2014-03-04 16:16:16 +00:00
efs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
exofs mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
exportfs
ext2 Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
ext3 Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
ext4 mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
f2fs mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
fat Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
freevxfs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
fscache FS-Cache: Handle removal of unadded object to the fscache_object_list rb tree 2014-02-17 13:47:35 -08:00
fuse mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
gfs2 mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
hfs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
hfsplus Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
hostfs mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
hpfs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
hppfs
hugetlbfs mm, hugetlb: unify region structure handling 2014-04-03 16:20:59 -07:00
isofs fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() 2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
jbd
jbd2 jbd2: improve error messages for inconsistent journal heads 2014-03-12 16:38:03 -04:00
jffs2 Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
jfs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
kernfs Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew) 2014-04-03 16:22:16 -07:00
lockd lockd: send correct lock when granting a delayed lock. 2014-02-13 14:55:02 -05:00
logfs mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
minix Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
ncpfs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
nfs mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
nfs_common
nfsd Merge branch 'cross-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs 2014-04-04 14:03:05 -07:00
nilfs2 mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
nls
notify fanotify: move unrelated handling from copy_event_to_user() 2014-04-03 16:20:51 -07:00
ntfs ntfs: logging clean-up 2014-04-07 16:35:49 -07:00
ocfs2 Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke 2014-04-06 09:38:07 -07:00
omfs mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
openpromfs fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() 2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
proc mm: per-thread vma caching 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
pstore Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
qnx4 fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() 2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
qnx6 fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() 2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
quota quota: provide function to grab quota structure reference 2014-04-03 16:20:54 -07:00
ramfs
reiserfs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
romfs fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() 2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
squashfs fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() 2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
sysfs Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()" 2014-03-25 20:54:57 -07:00
sysv Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
ubifs mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
udf Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
ufs Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
xfs mm: implement ->map_pages for page cache 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
aio.c
anon_inodes.c vfs: Allocate anon_inode_inode in anon_inode_init() 2014-03-27 09:52:54 -07:00
attr.c
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
binfmt_elf.c exec: kill the unnecessary mm->def_flags setting in load_elf_binary() 2014-04-07 16:35:52 -07:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c binfmt_misc: add missing 'break' statement 2014-04-03 16:21:16 -07:00
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c Merge branch 'for-3.15/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-04-01 19:19:15 -07:00
bio.c Merge branch 'for-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2014-04-03 13:05:42 -07:00
block_dev.c mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
buffer.c Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2014-02-20 14:54:28 +01:00
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c binfmt_elf: add ELF_HWCAP2 to compat auxv entries 2014-03-04 08:05:21 +00:00
compat_ioctl.c fs/compat: convert to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE with changing parameter types 2014-03-06 16:30:44 +01:00
compat.c Merge branch 'locks-3.15' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux 2014-04-04 14:21:20 -07:00
coredump.c
dcache.c vfs: add cross-rename 2014-04-01 17:08:43 +02:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c xfs: update for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-04 15:50:08 -07:00
drop_caches.c drop_caches: add some documentation and info message 2014-04-03 16:21:04 -07:00
eventfd.c
eventpoll.c
exec.c mm: per-thread vma caching 2014-04-07 16:35:53 -07:00
fcntl.c locks: add new fcntl cmd values for handling file private locks 2014-03-31 08:24:43 -04:00
fhandle.c
file_table.c Merge branch 'locks-3.15' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux 2014-04-04 14:21:20 -07:00
file.c Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-03-31 11:05:24 -07:00
filesystems.c sys_sysfs: Add CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL 2014-04-03 16:21:05 -07:00
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c One of the main highlights this time, is not the patches themselves 2014-04-04 14:49:16 -07:00
inode.c Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE 2014-04-04 15:39:39 -07:00
internal.h
ioctl.c
ioprio.c
Kconfig kernfs: add CONFIG_KERNFS 2014-02-07 16:08:57 -08:00
Kconfig.binfmt
libfs.c
locks.c locks: make locks_mandatory_area check for file-private locks 2014-03-31 08:24:43 -04:00
Makefile kernfs: add CONFIG_KERNFS 2014-02-07 16:08:57 -08:00
mbcache.c ext4: each filesystem creates and uses its own mb_cache 2014-03-18 19:24:49 -04:00
mount.h switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
mpage.c
namei.c Merge branch 'locks-3.15' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux 2014-04-04 14:21:20 -07:00
namespace.c switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
no-block.c
open.c xfs: update for 3.15-rc1 2014-04-04 15:50:08 -07:00
pipe.c
pnode.c switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
pnode.h switch mnt_hash to hlist 2014-03-30 19:18:51 -04:00
posix_acl.c One of the main highlights this time, is not the patches themselves 2014-04-04 14:49:16 -07:00
proc_namespace.c
read_write.c Merge branch 'compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2014-03-31 14:32:17 -07:00
readdir.c
select.c
seq_file.c
signalfd.c
splice.c
stack.c
stat.c
statfs.c
super.c fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() 2014-03-13 10:14:33 -04:00
sync.c Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start" 2014-02-22 02:02:28 +01:00
timerfd.c
utimes.c
xattr.c