mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists

The per-cpu page allocator (PCP) only stores order-0 pages.  This means
that all THP and "cheap" high-order allocations including SLUB contends on
the zone->lock.  This patch extends the PCP allocator to store THP and
"cheap" high-order pages.  Note that struct per_cpu_pages increases in
size to 256 bytes (4 cache lines) on x86-64.

Note that this is not necessarily a universal performance win because of
how it is implemented.  High-order pages can cause pcp->high to be
exceeded prematurely for lower-orders so for example, a large number of
THP pages being freed could release order-0 pages from the PCP lists.
Hence, much depends on the allocation/free pattern as observed by a single
CPU to determine if caching helps or hurts a particular workload.

That said, basic performance testing passed.  The following is a netperf
UDP_STREAM test which hits the relevant patches as some of the network
allocations are high-order.

netperf-udp
                                 5.13.0-rc2             5.13.0-rc2
                           mm-pcpburst-v3r4   mm-pcphighorder-v1r7
Hmean     send-64         261.46 (   0.00%)      266.30 *   1.85%*
Hmean     send-128        516.35 (   0.00%)      536.78 *   3.96%*
Hmean     send-256       1014.13 (   0.00%)     1034.63 *   2.02%*
Hmean     send-1024      3907.65 (   0.00%)     4046.11 *   3.54%*
Hmean     send-2048      7492.93 (   0.00%)     7754.85 *   3.50%*
Hmean     send-3312     11410.04 (   0.00%)    11772.32 *   3.18%*
Hmean     send-4096     13521.95 (   0.00%)    13912.34 *   2.89%*
Hmean     send-8192     21660.50 (   0.00%)    22730.72 *   4.94%*
Hmean     send-16384    31902.32 (   0.00%)    32637.50 *   2.30%*

Functionally, a patch like this is necessary to make bulk allocation of
high-order pages work with similar performance to order-0 bulk
allocations.  The bulk allocator is not updated in this series as it would
have to be determined by bulk allocation users how they want to track the
order of pages allocated with the bulk allocator.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210611135753.GC30378@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 18e5fb4d225f..6ec2cea9926b 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ extern void post_alloc_hook(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
 					gfp_t gfp_flags);
 extern int user_min_free_kbytes;
 
-extern void free_unref_page(struct page *page);
+extern void free_unref_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
 extern void free_unref_page_list(struct list_head *list);
 
 extern void zone_pcp_update(struct zone *zone, int cpu_online);