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Why can't we perform other batches that span only some >>>>>>> PTEs? What's special >>>>>>> about 1 PTE vs. 2 PTEs vs. all PTEs? >>>>>> >>>>>> That's a good point about the "all-or-nothing" batching logic ;) >>>>>> >>>>>> It seems the "all-or-nothing" approach is specific to the lazyfree use >>>>>> case, which needs to unmap the entire folio for reclamation. If that's >>>>>> not possible, it falls back to the single-page slow path. >>>>> >>>>> Other cases advance the PTE themselves, while try_to_unmap_one() relies >>>>> on page_vma_mapped_walk() to advance the PTE. Unless we want to manually >>>>> modify pvmw.pte and pvmw.address outside of page_vma_mapped_walk(), which >>>>> to me seems like a violation of layers. :-) >>>> >>>> Please explain to me why the following is not clearer and better: >>> >>> This part is much clearer, but that doesn’t necessarily improve the overall >>> picture. The main challenge is how to exit the iteration of >>> while (page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw)). >> >> Okay, I get what you mean now. >> >>> >>> Right now, we have it laid out quite straightforwardly: >>> /* We have already batched the entire folio */ >>> if (nr_pages > 1) >>> goto walk_done; >> >> >> Given that the comment is completely confusing whens seeing the check ... :) >> >> /* >> * If we are sure that we batched the entire folio and cleared all PTEs, >> * we can just optimize and stop right here. >> */ >> if (nr_pages == folio_nr_pages(folio)) >> goto walk_done; >> >> would make the comment match. > > Yes, that clarifies it. > >> >>> >>> with any nr between 1 and folio_nr_pages(), we have to consider two issues: >>> 1. How to skip PTE checks inside page_vma_mapped_walk for entries that >>> were already handled in the previous batch; >> >> They are cleared if we reach that point. So the pte_none() checks will >> simply skip them? >> >>> 2. How to break the iteration when this batch has arrived at the end. >> >> page_vma_mapped_walk() should be doing that? > > It seems you might have missed the part in my reply that says: > "Of course, we could avoid both, but that would mean performing unnecessary > checks inside page_vma_mapped_walk()." > > That’s true for both. But I’m wondering why we’re still doing the check, > even when we’re fairly sure they’ve already been cleared or we’ve reached > the end :-) :) > > Somehow, I feel we could combine your cleanup code—which handles a batch > size of "nr" between 1 and nr_pages—with the > "if (nr_pages == folio_nr_pages(folio)) goto walk_done" check. Yeah, that's what I was suggesting. It would have to be part of the cleanup I think. I'm still wondering if there is a case where if (nr_pages == folio_nr_pages(folio)) goto walk_done; would be wrong when dealing with small folios. > In practice, this would let us skip almost all unnecessary checks, > except for a few rare corner cases. > > For those corner cases where "nr" truly falls between 1 and nr_pages, > we can just leave them as-is—performing the redundant check inside > page_vma_mapped_walk(). I mean, batching mapcount+refcount updates etc. is always a win. If we end up doing some unnecessary pte_none() checks, that might be suboptimal but mostly noise in contrast to the other stuff we will optimize out :) Agreed that if we can easily avoid these pte_none() checks, we should do that. Optimizing that for "nr_pages == folio_nr_pages(folio)" makes sense. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb