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| author | Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> | 2015-08-25 14:21:16 +1000 |
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| committer | Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> | 2015-08-25 14:21:16 +1000 |
| commit | 260bddcb4d75636921e2e57d54d96a96b6e8fea5 (patch) | |
| tree | 64f928b8acf45172c5854491c47d5a6a16f23ab7 /include/uapi | |
| parent | 325e478c62ba8922e119a53e53ae31615b6090d3 (diff) | |
mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE)
Linux doesn't have an ability to free pages lazy while other OS already
have been supported that named by madvise(MADV_FREE).
The gain is clear that kernel can discard freed pages rather than swapping
out or OOM if memory pressure happens.
Without memory pressure, freed pages would be reused by userspace without
another additional overhead(ex, page fault + allocation + zeroing).
How to work is following as.
When madvise syscall is called, VM clears dirty bit of ptes of the range.
If memory pressure happens, VM checks dirty bit of page table and if it
found still "clean", it means it's a "lazyfree pages" so VM could discard
the page instead of swapping out. Once there was store operation for the
page before VM peek a page to reclaim, dirty bit is set so VM can swap out
the page instead of discarding.
Firstly, heavy users would be general allocators(ex, jemalloc, tcmalloc
and hope glibc supports it) and jemalloc/tcmalloc already have supported
the feature for other OS(ex, FreeBSD)
barrios@blaptop:~/benchmark/ebizzy$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 12
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-11
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 12
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 2
Stepping: 3
CPU MHz: 3200.185
BogoMIPS: 6400.53
Virtualization: VT-x
Hypervisor vendor: KVM
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 4096K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-11
ebizzy benchmark(./ebizzy -S 10 -n 512)
Higher avg is better.
vanilla-jemalloc MADV_free-jemalloc
1 thread
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 2961.90 avg: 12069.70
std: 71.96(2.43%) std: 186.68(1.55%)
max: 3070.00 max: 12385.00
min: 2796.00 min: 11746.00
2 thread
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 5020.00 avg: 17827.00
std: 264.87(5.28%) std: 358.52(2.01%)
max: 5244.00 max: 18760.00
min: 4251.00 min: 17382.00
4 thread
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 8988.80 avg: 27930.80
std: 1175.33(13.08%) std: 3317.33(11.88%)
max: 9508.00 max: 30879.00
min: 5477.00 min: 21024.00
8 thread
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 13036.50 avg: 33739.40
std: 170.67(1.31%) std: 5146.22(15.25%)
max: 13371.00 max: 40572.00
min: 12785.00 min: 24088.00
16 thread
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 11092.40 avg: 31424.20
std: 710.60(6.41%) std: 3763.89(11.98%)
max: 12446.00 max: 36635.00
min: 9949.00 min: 25669.00
32 thread
records: 10 records: 10
avg: 11067.00 avg: 34495.80
std: 971.06(8.77%) std: 2721.36(7.89%)
max: 12010.00 max: 38598.00
min: 9002.00 min: 30636.00
In summary, MADV_FREE is about much faster than MADV_DONTNEED.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h index a74dd84bbb6d..0e821e3c3d45 100644 --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ #define MADV_SEQUENTIAL 2 /* expect sequential page references */ #define MADV_WILLNEED 3 /* will need these pages */ #define MADV_DONTNEED 4 /* don't need these pages */ +#define MADV_FREE 5 /* free pages only if memory pressure */ /* common parameters: try to keep these consistent across architectures */ #define MADV_REMOVE 9 /* remove these pages & resources */ |