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From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: speed up mremap by 500x on large regions
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:35:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181013013540.GA207108@joelaf.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181012.111836.1569129998592378186.davem@davemloft.net>

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:18:36AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[...]
> > Also, do we not flush the caches from any path when we munmap
> > address space?  We do call do_munmap on the old mapping from mremap
> > after moving to the new one.
> 
> Sparc makes sure that shared mapping have consistent colors.  Therefore
> all that's left are private mappings and those will be initialized by
> block stores to clear the page out or similar.
> 
> Also, when creating new mappings, we flush the D-cache when necessary
> in update_mmu_cache().
> 
> We also maintain a bit in the page struct to track when a page which
> was potentially written to on one cpu ends up mapped into another
> address space and flush as necessary.
> 
> The cache is write-through, which simplifies the preconditions we have
> to maintain.

Makes sense, thanks. For the moment I sent patches to enable this on arm64
and x86. We can enable it on sparc as well at a later time as it sounds it
could be a safe optimization to apply to that architecture as well.

thanks,

 - Joel

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-13  1:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-12  1:37 [PATCH v2 1/2] treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions Joel Fernandes (Google)
2018-10-12  1:37 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: speed up mremap by 500x on large regions Joel Fernandes (Google)
2018-10-12 11:30   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-12 11:36     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-12 12:50     ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-12 13:19       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-12 16:57         ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-12 21:33           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-12 18:18       ` David Miller
2018-10-13  1:35         ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2018-10-13  1:39           ` Daniel Colascione
2018-10-13  1:44             ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-13  1:54               ` Daniel Colascione
2018-10-13  2:10                 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-13  2:25                   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-10-13 17:50                     ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-12 18:02     ` David Miller
2018-10-12 14:09   ` Anton Ivanov
2018-10-12 14:37     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-12 14:48       ` Anton Ivanov
2018-10-12 16:42         ` Anton Ivanov
2018-10-12 16:50           ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-12 16:58             ` Anton Ivanov
2018-10-12 17:06               ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-12 21:40           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-13  6:10             ` Anton Ivanov
2018-10-15  7:10   ` Christian Borntraeger
2018-10-15  8:18     ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-10-16  2:08       ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-12 11:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-12 16:37   ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-12 13:56 ` Anton Ivanov
2018-10-12 16:34   ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-12 16:38     ` Julia Lawall
2018-10-12 16:46       ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-12 18:51 ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-10-12 19:42   ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-13  9:22     ` SF Markus Elfring

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