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From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, hughd@google.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org, david@redhat.com, 21cnbao@gmail.com,
	ryan.roberts@arm.com, ziy@nvidia.com,
	baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm: mincore: use folio_pte_batch() to batch process large folios
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:38:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ad05bc9299de5d954fb21a2da57f46dd6ec59d0.1742960003.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1742960003.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>

When I tested the mincore() syscall, I observed that it takes longer with
64K mTHP enabled on my Arm64 server. The reason is the mincore_pte_range()
still checks each PTE individually, even when the PTEs are contiguous,
which is not efficient.

Thus we can use folio_pte_batch() to get the batch number of the present
contiguous PTEs, which can improve the performance. I tested the mincore()
syscall with 1G anonymous memory populated with 64K mTHP, and observed an
obvious performance improvement:

w/o patch		w/ patch		changes
6022us			1115us			+81%

Moreover, I also tested mincore() with disabling mTHP/THP, and did not
see any obvious regression.

Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 mm/mincore.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
index 832f29f46767..88be180b5550 100644
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include "swap.h"
+#include "internal.h"
 
 static int mincore_hugetlb(pte_t *pte, unsigned long hmask, unsigned long addr,
 			unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk)
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ static int mincore_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	pte_t *ptep;
 	unsigned char *vec = walk->private;
 	int nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	int step, i;
 
 	ptl = pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma);
 	if (ptl) {
@@ -118,16 +120,31 @@ static int mincore_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		walk->action = ACTION_AGAIN;
 		return 0;
 	}
-	for (; addr != end; ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+	for (; addr != end; ptep += step, addr += step * PAGE_SIZE) {
 		pte_t pte = ptep_get(ptep);
 
+		step = 1;
 		/* We need to do cache lookup too for pte markers */
 		if (pte_none_mostly(pte))
 			__mincore_unmapped_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE,
 						 vma, vec);
-		else if (pte_present(pte))
-			*vec = 1;
-		else { /* pte is a swap entry */
+		else if (pte_present(pte)) {
+			if (pte_batch_hint(ptep, pte) > 1) {
+				struct folio *folio = vm_normal_folio(vma, addr, pte);
+
+				if (folio && folio_test_large(folio)) {
+					const fpb_t fpb_flags = FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY |
+								FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY;
+					int max_nr = (end - addr) / PAGE_SIZE;
+
+					step = folio_pte_batch(folio, addr, ptep, pte,
+							max_nr, fpb_flags, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+				}
+			}
+
+			for (i = 0; i < step; i++)
+				vec[i] = 1;
+		} else { /* pte is a swap entry */
 			swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
 
 			if (non_swap_entry(entry)) {
@@ -146,7 +163,7 @@ static int mincore_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 #endif
 			}
 		}
-		vec++;
+		vec += step;
 	}
 	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep - 1, ptl);
 out:
-- 
2.43.5



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-03-26  3:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-03-26  3:38 [PATCH 0/2] Fix mincore() tmpfs test failure Baolin Wang
2025-03-26  3:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] selftests: mincore: fix tmpfs mincore " Baolin Wang
2025-03-27 14:36   ` Zi Yan
2025-03-30 19:47     ` Baolin Wang
2025-04-01 12:54   ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-07  3:49     ` Baolin Wang
2025-04-07  7:49       ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-07  8:35         ` Baolin Wang
2025-03-26  3:38 ` Baolin Wang [this message]
2025-03-27 10:49   ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: mincore: use folio_pte_batch() to batch process large folios Oscar Salvador
2025-03-27 11:54     ` Baolin Wang
2025-03-27 14:08   ` Ryan Roberts
2025-03-28 13:10     ` Oscar Salvador
2025-03-30 19:57     ` Baolin Wang
2025-04-01 10:45       ` Ryan Roberts
2025-04-01 13:04         ` David Hildenbrand
2025-04-07  6:33           ` Baolin Wang
2025-04-14 13:46             ` Ryan Roberts
2025-05-07  5:12   ` Dev Jain
2025-05-07  9:48     ` Baolin Wang
2025-05-07  9:54       ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-07 10:03         ` Baolin Wang
2025-05-07 11:14           ` Ryan Roberts

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