Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/gup: add compound page list iterator

[Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>]

On 2/5/21 4:11 AM, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 2/4/21 12:24 PM, Joao Martins wrote:
>> Add an helper that iterates over head pages in a list of pages. It
>> essentially counts the tails until the next page to process has a
>> different head that the current. This is going to be used by
>> unpin_user_pages() family of functions, to batch the head page refcount
>> updates once for all passed consecutive tail pages.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
>> ---
>>   mm/gup.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
>> index d68bcb482b11..d1549c61c2f6 100644
>> --- a/mm/gup.c
>> +++ b/mm/gup.c
>> @@ -215,6 +215,35 @@ void unpin_user_page(struct page *page)
>>   }
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_page);
>>   
>> +static inline void compound_next(unsigned long i, unsigned long npages,
>> +				 struct page **list, struct page **head,
>> +				 unsigned int *ntails)
>> +{
>> +	struct page *page;
>> +	unsigned int nr;
>> +
>> +	if (i >= npages)
>> +		return;
>> +
>> +	list += i;
>> +	npages -= i;
> 
> It is worth noting that this is slightly more complex to read than it needs to be.
> You are changing both endpoints of a loop at once. That's hard to read for a human.
> And you're only doing it in order to gain the small benefit of being able to
> use nr directly at the end of the routine.
> 
> If instead you keep npages constant like it naturally wants to be, you could
> just do a "(*ntails)++" in the loop, to take care of *ntails.
> 
I didn't do it as such as I would need to deref @ntails per iteration, so
it felt more efficient to do as above. On a second thought, I could alternatively do the
following below, thoughts?

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index d68bcb482b11..8defe4f670d5 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -215,6 +215,32 @@ void unpin_user_page(struct page *page)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_page);

+static inline void compound_next(unsigned long i, unsigned long npages,
+                                struct page **list, struct page **head,
+                                unsigned int *ntails)
+{
+       struct page *page;
+       unsigned int nr;
+
+       if (i >= npages)
+               return;
+
+       page = compound_head(list[i]);
+       for (nr = i + 1; nr < npages; nr++) {
+               if (compound_head(list[nr]) != page)
+                       break;
+       }
+
+       *head = page;
+       *ntails = nr - i;
+}
+

> However, given that the patch is correct and works as-is, the above is really just
> an optional idea, so please feel free to add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> 
> 
Thanks!

Hopefully I can retain that if the snippet above is preferred?

	Joao