Problem: On large page size configurations (16KiB, 64KiB), the CMA
alignment requirement (CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES) increases considerably,
and this causes the CMA reservations to be larger than necessary. This
means that system will have less available MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE and
MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE page blocks since MIGRATE_CMA can't fallback to them.
The CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES increases because it depends on MAX_PAGE_ORDER
which depends on ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER. The value of ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
increases on 16k and 64k kernels.
For example, in ARM, the CMA alignment requirement when:
- CONFIG_ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER default value is used
- CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is set:
PAGE_SIZE | MAX_PAGE_ORDER | pageblock_order | CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
4KiB | 10 | 9 | 4KiB * (2 ^ 9) = 2MiB
16Kib | 11 | 11 | 16KiB * (2 ^ 11) = 32MiB
64KiB | 13 | 13 | 64KiB * (2 ^ 13) = 512MiB
There are some extreme cases for the CMA alignment requirement when:
- CONFIG_ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER maximum value is set
- CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is NOT set:
- CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is NOT set
PAGE_SIZE | MAX_PAGE_ORDER | pageblock_order | CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
------------------------------------------------------------------------
4KiB | 15 | 15 | 4KiB * (2 ^ 15) = 128MiB
16Kib | 13 | 13 | 16KiB * (2 ^ 13) = 128MiB
64KiB | 13 | 13 | 64KiB * (2 ^ 13) = 512MiB
This affects the CMA reservations for the drivers. If a driver in a
4KiB kernel needs 4MiB of CMA memory, in a 16KiB kernel, the minimal
reservation has to be 32MiB due to the alignment requirements:
reserved-memory {
...
cma_test_reserve: cma_test_reserve {
compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
size = <0x0 0x400000>; /* 4 MiB */
...
};
};
reserved-memory {
...
cma_test_reserve: cma_test_reserve {
compatible = "shared-dma-pool";
size = <0x0 0x2000000>; /* 32 MiB */
...
};
};
Solution: Add a new config CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER that allows to set the
page block order in all the architectures. The maximum page block order
will be given by ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER.
By default, CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER will have the same value that
ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER. This will make sure that current kernel
configurations won't be affected by this change. It is a opt-in change.
This patch will allow to have the same CMA alignment requirements for
large page sizes (16KiB, 64KiB) as that in 4kb kernels by setting a lower
pageblock_order.
Tests:
- Verified that HugeTLB pages work when pageblock_order is 1, 7, 10 on
4k and 16k kernels.
- Verified that Transparent Huge Pages work when pageblock_order is 1,
7, 10 on 4k and 16k kernels.
- Verified that dma-buf heaps allocations work when pageblock_order is
1, 7, 10 on 4k and 16k kernels.
Benchmarks:
The benchmarks compare 16kb kernels with pageblock_order 10 and 7. The
reason for the pageblock_order 7 is because this value makes the min CMA
alignment requirement the same as that in 4kb kernels (2MB).
- Perform 100K dma-buf heaps (/dev/dma_heap/system) allocations of
SZ_8M, SZ_4M, SZ_2M, SZ_1M, SZ_64, SZ_8, SZ_4. Use simpleperf
(https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/simpleperf) to measure the #
of instructions and page-faults on 16k kernels. The benchmark was
executed 10 times. The averages are below:
# instructions | #page-faults
order 10 | order 7 | order 10 | order 7
--------------------------------------------------------
13,891,765,770 | 11,425,777,314 | 220 | 217
14,456,293,487 | 12,660,819,302 | 224 | 219
13,924,261,018 | 13,243,970,736 | 217 | 221
13,910,886,504 | 13,845,519,630 | 217 | 221
14,388,071,190 | 13,498,583,098 | 223 | 224
13,656,442,167 | 12,915,831,681 | 216 | 218
13,300,268,343 | 12,930,484,776 | 222 | 218
13,625,470,223 | 14,234,092,777 | 219 | 218
13,508,964,965 | 13,432,689,094 | 225 | 219
13,368,950,667 | 13,683,587,37 | 219 | 225
-------------------------------------------------------------------
13,803,137,433 | 13,131,974,268 | 220 | 220 Averages
There were 4.85% #instructions when order was 7, in comparison with order
10.
13,803,137,433 - 13,131,974,268 = -671,163,166 (-4.86%)
The number of page faults in order 7 and 10 were the same.
These results didn't show any significant regression when the
pageblock_order is set to 7 on 16kb kernels.
- Run speedometer 3.1 (https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/) 5 times
on the 16k kernels with pageblock_order 7 and 10.
order 10 | order 7 | order 7 - order 10 | (order 7 - order 10) %
-------------------------------------------------------------------
15.8 | 16.4 | 0.6 | 3.80%
16.4 | 16.2 | -0.2 | -1.22%
16.6 | 16.3 | -0.3 | -1.81%
16.8 | 16.3 | -0.5 | -2.98%
16.6 | 16.8 | 0.2 | 1.20%
-------------------------------------------------------------------
16.44 16.4 -0.04 -0.24% Averages
The results didn't show any significant regression when the
pageblock_order is set to 7 on 16kb kernels.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250521215807.1860663-1-jyescas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Juan Yescas <jyescas@google.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
#define NR_PAGE_ORDERS (MAX_PAGE_ORDER + 1)
+/* Defines the order for the number of pages that have a migrate type. */
+#ifndef CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER
+#define PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER MAX_PAGE_ORDER
+#else
+#define PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER
+#endif /* CONFIG_PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER */
+
+/*
+ * The MAX_PAGE_ORDER, which defines the max order of pages to be allocated
+ * by the buddy allocator, has to be larger or equal to the PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER,
+ * which defines the order for the number of pages that can have a migrate type
+ */
+#if (PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER > MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
+#error MAX_PAGE_ORDER must be >= PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER
+#endif
+
/*
* PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER is the order at which allocations are deemed
* costly to service. That is between allocation orders which should
* Huge pages are a constant size, but don't exceed the maximum allocation
* granularity.
*/
-#define pageblock_order MIN_T(unsigned int, HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER, MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
+#define pageblock_order MIN_T(unsigned int, HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER, PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER)
#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE */
#elif defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
-#define pageblock_order MIN_T(unsigned int, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
+#define pageblock_order MIN_T(unsigned int, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER)
#else /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
-/* If huge pages are not used, group by MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES */
-#define pageblock_order MAX_PAGE_ORDER
+/* If huge pages are not used, group by PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER */
+#define pageblock_order PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER
#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
If unsure, leave the default value "8" in UMA and "20" in NUMA.
+#
+# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if available, to set
+# the max page order for physically contiguous allocations.
+#
+config ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
+ int
+
+#
+# When ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER is not defined,
+# the default page block order is MAX_PAGE_ORDER (10) as per
+# include/linux/mmzone.h.
+#
+config PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER
+ int "Page Block Order"
+ range 1 10 if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER = 0
+ default 10 if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER = 0
+ range 1 ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER != 0
+ default ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER if ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER != 0
+ help
+ The page block order refers to the power of two number of pages that
+ are physically contiguous and can have a migrate type associated to
+ them. The maximum size of the page block order is limited by
+ ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER.
+
+ This config allows overriding the default page block order when the
+ page block order is required to be smaller than ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER
+ or MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
+
+ Reducing pageblock order can negatively impact THP generation
+ success rate. If your workloads uses THP heavily, please use this
+ option with caution.
+
+ Don't change if unsure.
+
config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
bool "Track memory changes"
depends on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE && HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY && PROC_FS
/* Initialise the number of pages represented by NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS */
void __init set_pageblock_order(void)
{
- unsigned int order = MAX_PAGE_ORDER;
+ unsigned int order = PAGE_BLOCK_ORDER;
/* Check that pageblock_nr_pages has not already been setup */
if (pageblock_order)
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