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Date:   Mon, 9 Sep 2019 12:07:01 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] mm: Add per-cpu logic to page shuffling
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On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 10:25:12AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Change the logic used to generate randomness in the suffle path so that we

Typo.

> can avoid cache line bouncing. The previous logic was sharing the offset
> and entropy word between all CPUs. As such this can result in cache line
> bouncing and will ultimately hurt performance when enabled.
> 
> To resolve this I have moved to a per-cpu logic for maintaining a unsigned
> long containing some amount of bits, and an offset value for which bit we
> can use for entropy with each call.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  mm/shuffle.c |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/shuffle.c b/mm/shuffle.c
> index 3ce12481b1dc..9ba542ecf335 100644
> --- a/mm/shuffle.c
> +++ b/mm/shuffle.c
> @@ -183,25 +183,38 @@ void __meminit __shuffle_free_memory(pg_data_t *pgdat)
>  		shuffle_zone(z);
>  }
>  
> +struct batched_bit_entropy {
> +	unsigned long entropy_bool;
> +	int position;
> +};
> +
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct batched_bit_entropy, batched_entropy_bool);
> +
>  void add_to_free_area_random(struct page *page, struct free_area *area,
>  		int migratetype)
>  {
> -	static u64 rand;
> -	static u8 rand_bits;
> +	struct batched_bit_entropy *batch;
> +	unsigned long entropy;
> +	int position;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * The lack of locking is deliberate. If 2 threads race to
> -	 * update the rand state it just adds to the entropy.
> +	 * We shouldn't need to disable IRQs as the only caller is
> +	 * __free_one_page and it should only be called with the zone lock
> +	 * held and either from IRQ context or with local IRQs disabled.
>  	 */
> -	if (rand_bits == 0) {
> -		rand_bits = 64;
> -		rand = get_random_u64();
> +	batch = raw_cpu_ptr(&batched_entropy_bool);
> +	position = batch->position;
> +
> +	if (--position < 0) {
> +		batch->entropy_bool = get_random_long();
> +		position = BITS_PER_LONG - 1;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (rand & 1)
> +	batch->position = position;
> +	entropy = batch->entropy_bool;
> +
> +	if (1ul & (entropy >> position))

Maybe something like this would be more readble:

	if (entropy & BIT(position))

>  		add_to_free_area(page, area, migratetype);
>  	else
>  		add_to_free_area_tail(page, area, migratetype);
> -	rand_bits--;
> -	rand >>= 1;
>  }
> 
> 

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov