From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>, <jane.chu@oracle.com>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] mm: page_alloc: optimize pfn_range_valid_contig()
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:09:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260112150954.1802953-3-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260112150954.1802953-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
The alloc_contig_pages() spends a significant amount of time within
pfn_range_valid_contig().
- set_max_huge_pages
- 99.98% alloc_pool_huge_folio
only_alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio.isra.0
- alloc_contig_frozen_pages_noprof
- 87.00% pfn_range_valid_contig
pfn_to_online_page
- 12.91% alloc_contig_frozen_range_noprof
4.51% replace_free_hugepage_folios
- 4.02% prep_new_page
prep_compound_page
- 2.98% undo_isolate_page_range
- 2.79% unset_migratetype_isolate
- 2.75% __move_freepages_block_isolate
2.71% __move_freepages_block
- 0.98% start_isolate_page_range
0.66% set_migratetype_isolate
To optimize this process, use the new helper has_unmovable_pages()
to avoid more unnecessary iterations for compound pages, such as
THP, and high-order buddy pages, which significantly improving the
efficiency of contiguous memory allocation.
A simple test on machine with 114G free memory, allocate 120 * 1G
HugeTLB folios(104 successfully returned),
time echo 120 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
Before: 0m3.605s
After: 0m0.602s
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 25 ++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index d8d5379c44dc..813c5f57883f 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -7157,18 +7157,20 @@ static bool pfn_range_valid_contig(struct zone *z, unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long nr_pages, bool skip_hugetlb,
bool *skipped_hugetlb)
{
- unsigned long i, end_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages;
+ unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages;
struct page *page;
- for (i = start_pfn; i < end_pfn; i++) {
- page = pfn_to_online_page(i);
+ while (start_pfn < end_pfn) {
+ unsigned long step = 1;
+
+ page = pfn_to_online_page(start_pfn);
if (!page)
return false;
if (page_zone(page) != z)
return false;
- if (PageReserved(page))
+ if (page_is_unmovable(z, page, PB_ISOLATE_MODE_OTHER, &step))
return false;
/*
@@ -7183,9 +7185,6 @@ static bool pfn_range_valid_contig(struct zone *z, unsigned long start_pfn,
if (PageHuge(page)) {
unsigned int order;
- if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION))
- return false;
-
if (skip_hugetlb) {
*skipped_hugetlb = true;
return false;
@@ -7196,17 +7195,9 @@ static bool pfn_range_valid_contig(struct zone *z, unsigned long start_pfn,
if ((order >= MAX_FOLIO_ORDER) ||
(nr_pages <= (1 << order)))
return false;
-
- /*
- * Reaching this point means we've encounted a huge page
- * smaller than nr_pages, skip all pfn's for that page.
- *
- * We can't get here from a tail-PageHuge, as it implies
- * we started a scan in the middle of a hugepage larger
- * than nr_pages - which the prior check filters for.
- */
- i += (1 << order) - 1;
}
+
+ start_pfn += step;
}
return true;
}
--
2.27.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-12 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-12 15:09 [PATCH mm-new resend 0/5] mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation Kefeng Wang
2026-01-12 15:09 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: page_isolation: introduce page_is_unmovable() Kefeng Wang
2026-01-12 16:36 ` Zi Yan
2026-01-12 15:09 ` Kefeng Wang [this message]
2026-01-12 17:02 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: page_alloc: optimize pfn_range_valid_contig() Zi Yan
2026-01-12 15:09 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: hugetlb: optimize replace_free_hugepage_folios() Kefeng Wang
2026-01-12 15:09 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: hugetlb_cma: optimize hugetlb_cma_alloc_frozen_folio() Kefeng Wang
2026-01-12 15:09 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm: hugetlb_cma: mark hugetlb_cma{_only} as __ro_after_init Kefeng Wang
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