linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Move __vma_address() to internal.h to be inlined in huge

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1406121444140.12437@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:45:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Move __vma_address() to internal.h to be inlined in
 huge_memory.c

On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Waiman Long wrote:

> > > The vma_address() function which is used to compute the virtual address
> > > within a VMA is used only by 2 files in the mm subsystem - rmap.c and
> > > huge_memory.c. This function is defined in rmap.c and is inlined by
> > > its callers there, but it is also declared as an external function.
> > > 
> > > However, the __split_huge_page() function which calls vma_address()
> > > in huge_memory.c is calling it as a real function call. This is not
> > > as efficient as an inlined function. This patch moves the underlying
> > > inlined __vma_address() function to internal.h to be shared by both
> > > the rmap.c and huge_memory.c file.
> > This increases huge_memory.o's text+data_bss by 311 bytes, which makes
> > me suspect that it is a bad change due to its increase of kernel cache
> > footprint.
> > 
> > Perhaps we should be noinlining __vma_address()?
> 
> On my test machine, I saw an increase of 144 bytes in the text segment
> of huge_memory.o. The size in size is caused by an increase in the size
> of the __split_huge_page function. When I remove the
> 
>         if (unlikely(is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)))
>                 pgoff = page->index << huge_page_order(page_hstate(page));
> 
> check, the increase in size drops down to 24 bytes. As a THP cannot be
> a hugetlb page, there is no point in doing this check for a THP. I will
> update the patch to pass in an additional argument to disable this
> check for __split_huge_page.
> 

I think we're seeking a reason or performance numbers that suggest 
__vma_address() being inline is appropriate and so far we lack any such 
evidence.  Adding additional parameters to determine checks isn't going to 
change the fact that it increases text size needlessly.
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