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Mel Gorman f218759918 mm, truncate: remove all exceptional entries from pagevec under one lock
During truncate each entry in a pagevec is checked to see if it is an
exceptional entry and if so, the shadow entry is cleaned up.  This is
potentially expensive as multiple entries for a mapping locks/unlocks
the tree lock.  This batches the operation such that any exceptional
entries removed from a pagevec only acquire the mapping tree lock once.
The corner case where this is more expensive is where there is only one
exceptional entry but this is unlikely due to temporal locality and how
it affects LRU ordering.  Note that for truncations of small files
created recently, this patch should show no gain because it only batches
the handling of exceptional entries.

sparsetruncate (large)
                              4.14.0-rc4             4.14.0-rc4
                         pickhelper-v1r1       batchshadow-v1r1
Min          Time       38.00 (   0.00%)       27.00 (  28.95%)
1st-qrtle    Time       40.00 (   0.00%)       28.00 (  30.00%)
2nd-qrtle    Time       44.00 (   0.00%)       41.00 (   6.82%)
3rd-qrtle    Time      146.00 (   0.00%)      147.00 (  -0.68%)
Max-90%      Time      153.00 (   0.00%)      153.00 (   0.00%)
Max-95%      Time      155.00 (   0.00%)      156.00 (  -0.65%)
Max-99%      Time      181.00 (   0.00%)      171.00 (   5.52%)
Amean        Time       93.04 (   0.00%)       88.43 (   4.96%)
Best99%Amean Time       92.08 (   0.00%)       86.13 (   6.46%)
Best95%Amean Time       89.19 (   0.00%)       83.13 (   6.80%)
Best90%Amean Time       85.60 (   0.00%)       79.15 (   7.53%)
Best75%Amean Time       72.95 (   0.00%)       65.09 (  10.78%)
Best50%Amean Time       39.86 (   0.00%)       28.20 (  29.25%)
Best25%Amean Time       39.44 (   0.00%)       27.70 (  29.77%)

bonnie
                                      4.14.0-rc4             4.14.0-rc4
                                 pickhelper-v1r1       batchshadow-v1r1
Hmean     SeqCreate ops         71.92 (   0.00%)       76.78 (   6.76%)
Hmean     SeqCreate read        42.42 (   0.00%)       45.01 (   6.10%)
Hmean     SeqCreate del      26519.88 (   0.00%)    27191.87 (   2.53%)
Hmean     RandCreate ops        71.92 (   0.00%)       76.95 (   7.00%)
Hmean     RandCreate read       44.44 (   0.00%)       49.23 (  10.78%)
Hmean     RandCreate del     24948.62 (   0.00%)    24764.97 (  -0.74%)

Truncation of a large number of files shows a substantial gain with 99%
of files being truncated 6.46% faster.  bonnie shows a modest gain of
2.53%

[jack@suse.cz: fix truncate_exceptional_pvec_entries()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171108164226.26788-1-jack@suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018075952.10627-4-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Documentation kmemcheck: rip it out 2017-11-15 18:21:05 -08:00
arch sparc64: optimize struct page zeroing 2017-11-15 18:21:05 -08:00
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