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    mm/page_alloc: make sure __rmqueue() etc are always inline · 85ccc8fa
    Aaron Lu authored
    __rmqueue(), __rmqueue_fallback(), __rmqueue_smallest() and
    __rmqueue_cma_fallback() are all in page allocator's hot path and better
    be finished as soon as possible.  One way to make them faster is by making
    them inline.  But as Andrew Morton and Andi Kleen pointed out:
    
      https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/10/1252
      https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/10/1279
    
    To make sure they are inlined, we should use __always_inline for them.
    
    With the will-it-scale/page_fault1/process benchmark, when using nr_cpu
    processes to stress buddy, the results for will-it-scale.processes with
    and without the patch are:
    
    On a 2-sockets Intel-Skylake machine:
    
       compiler          base        head
      gcc-4.4.7       6496131     6911823 +6.4%
      gcc-4.9.4       7225110     7731072 +7.0%
      gcc-5.4.1       7054224     7688146 +9.0%
      gcc-6.2.0       7059794     7651675 +8.4%
    
    On a 4-sockets Intel-Skylake machine:
    
       compiler          base        head
      gcc-4.4.7      13162890    13508193 +2.6%
      gcc-4.9.4      14997463    15484353 +3.2%
      gcc-5.4.1      14708711    15449805 +5.0%
      gcc-6.2.0      14574099    15349204 +5.3%
    
    The above 4 compilers are used because I've done the tests through
    Intel's Linux Kernel Performance(LKP) infrastructure and they are the
    available compilers there.
    
    The benefit being less on 4 sockets machine is due to the lock
    contention there(perf-profile/native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath=81%) is
    less severe than on the 2 sockets machine(85%).
    
    What the benchmark does is: it forks nr_cpu processes and then each
    process does the following:
        1 mmap() 128M anonymous space;
        2 writes to each page there to trigger actual page allocation;
        3 munmap() it.
    in a loop.
    
      https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale/blob/master/tests/page_fault1.c
    
    Binary size wise, I have locally built them with different compilers:
    
    [aaron@aaronlu obj]$ size */*/mm/page_alloc.o
       text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
      37409    9904    8524   55837    da1d gcc-4.9.4/base/mm/page_alloc.o
      38273    9904    8524   56701    dd7d gcc-4.9.4/head/mm/page_alloc.o
      37465    9840    8428   55733    d9b5 gcc-5.5.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o
      38169    9840    8428   56437    dc75 gcc-5.5.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o
      37573    9840    8428   55841    da21 gcc-6.4.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o
      38261    9840    8428   56529    dcd1 gcc-6.4.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o
      36863    9840    8428   55131    d75b gcc-7.2.0/base/mm/page_alloc.o
      37711    9840    8428   55979    daab gcc-7.2.0/head/mm/page_alloc.o
    
    Text size increased about 800 bytes for mm/page_alloc.o.
    
    [aaron@aaronlu obj]$ size */*/vmlinux
       text    data     bss     dec       hex     filename
    10342757   5903208 17723392 33969357  20654cd gcc-4.9.4/base/vmlinux
    10342757   5903208 17723392 33969357  20654cd gcc-4.9.4/head/vmlinux
    10332448   5836608 17715200 33884256  2050860 gcc-5.5.0/base/vmlinux
    10332448   5836608 17715200 33884256  2050860 gcc-5.5.0/head/vmlinux
    10094546   5836696 17715200 33646442  201676a gcc-6.4.0/base/vmlinux
    10094546   5836696 17715200 33646442  201676a gcc-6.4.0/head/vmlinux
    10018775   5828732 17715200 33562707  2002053 gcc-7.2.0/base/vmlinux
    10018775   5828732 17715200 33562707  2002053 gcc-7.2.0/head/vmlinux
    
    Text size for vmlinux has no change though, probably due to function
    alignment.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171013063111.GA26032@intel.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
    Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com>
    Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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