From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Roman Gushchin <guroan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] mm: refactor __vunmap() to avoid duplicated call to find_vm_area()
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:24:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181214182452.GD10600@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181214180720.32040-2-guro@fb.com>
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 10:07:17AM -0800, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> __vunmap() calls find_vm_area() twice without an obvious reason:
> first directly to get the area pointer, second indirectly by calling
> remove_vm_area(), which is again searching for the area.
>
> To remove this redundancy, let's split remove_vm_area() into
> __remove_vm_area(struct vmap_area *), which performs the actual area
> removal, and remove_vm_area(const void *addr) wrapper, which can
> be used everywhere, where it has been used before.
>
> On my test setup, I've got up to 12% speed up on vfree()'ing 1000000
> of 4-pages vmalloc blocks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-14 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-14 18:07 [RFC 0/4] vmalloc enhancements Roman Gushchin
2018-12-14 18:07 ` [RFC 1/4] mm: refactor __vunmap() to avoid duplicated call to find_vm_area() Roman Gushchin
2018-12-14 18:24 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-12-14 18:07 ` [RFC 2/4] mm: separate memory allocation and actual work in alloc_vmap_area() Roman Gushchin
2018-12-14 18:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-14 19:40 ` Joe Perches
2018-12-14 19:45 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-14 21:57 ` Roman Gushchin
2018-12-15 2:22 ` Joe Perches
2018-12-14 18:07 ` [RFC 3/4] mm: allocate vmalloc metadata in one allocation Roman Gushchin
2018-12-14 18:07 ` [RFC 4/4] mm: show number of vmalloc pages in /proc/meminfo Roman Gushchin
2018-12-14 18:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-12-14 18:42 ` Roman Gushchin
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