Re: [PATCH 26/28] cpuset: use static key better and convert to new API

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Tue Apr 26 2016 - 15:49:52 EST


On 04/15/2016 11:07 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

An important function for cpusets is cpuset_node_allowed(), which optimizes on
the fact if there's a single root CPU set, it must be trivially allowed. But
the check "nr_cpusets() <= 1" doesn't use the cpusets_enabled_key static key
the right way where static keys eliminate branching overhead with jump labels.

This patch converts it so that static key is used properly. It's also switched
to the new static key API and the checking functions are converted to return
bool instead of int. We also provide a new variant __cpuset_zone_allowed()
which expects that the static key check was already done and they key was
enabled. This is needed for get_page_from_freelist() where we want to also
avoid the relatively slower check when ALLOC_CPUSET is not set in alloc_flags.

The impact on the page allocator microbenchmark is less than expected but the
cleanup in itself is worthwhile.

4.6.0-rc2 4.6.0-rc2
multcheck-v1r20 cpuset-v1r20
Min alloc-odr0-1 348.00 ( 0.00%) 348.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-2 254.00 ( 0.00%) 254.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-4 213.00 ( 0.00%) 213.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-8 186.00 ( 0.00%) 183.00 ( 1.61%)
Min alloc-odr0-16 173.00 ( 0.00%) 171.00 ( 1.16%)
Min alloc-odr0-32 166.00 ( 0.00%) 163.00 ( 1.81%)
Min alloc-odr0-64 162.00 ( 0.00%) 159.00 ( 1.85%)
Min alloc-odr0-128 160.00 ( 0.00%) 157.00 ( 1.88%)
Min alloc-odr0-256 169.00 ( 0.00%) 166.00 ( 1.78%)
Min alloc-odr0-512 180.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 0.00%)
Min alloc-odr0-1024 188.00 ( 0.00%) 187.00 ( 0.53%)
Min alloc-odr0-2048 194.00 ( 0.00%) 193.00 ( 0.52%)
Min alloc-odr0-4096 199.00 ( 0.00%) 198.00 ( 0.50%)
Min alloc-odr0-8192 202.00 ( 0.00%) 201.00 ( 0.50%)
Min alloc-odr0-16384 203.00 ( 0.00%) 202.00 ( 0.49%)

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vl... ah, no, I actually wrote this one.

But since the cpuset maintainer acked [1] my earlier posting only after Mel included it in this series, I think it's worth transferring it here:

Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=146062276216574&w=2