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Message-ID: <20190621181349.GA21680@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:13:50 -0700
From:   Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
To:     Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: speed up check_and_migrate_cma_pages() on huge
 page

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 06:15:16PM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> Both hugetlb and thp locate on the same migration type of pageblock, since
> they are allocated from a free_list[]. Based on this fact, it is enough to
> check on a single subpage to decide the migration type of the whole huge
> page. By this way, it saves (2M/4K - 1) times loop for pmd_huge on x86,
> similar on other archs.
> 
> Furthermore, when executing isolate_huge_page(), it avoid taking global
> hugetlb_lock many times, and meanless remove/add to the local link list
> cma_page_list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>
> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
> Cc: Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  mm/gup.c | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index ddde097..2eecb16 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -1342,16 +1342,19 @@ static long check_and_migrate_cma_pages(struct task_struct *tsk,
>  	LIST_HEAD(cma_page_list);
>  
>  check_again:
> -	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
> +	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages;) {
> +
> +		struct page *head = compound_head(pages[i]);
> +		long step = 1;
> +
> +		if (PageCompound(head))
> +			step = compound_order(head) - (pages[i] - head);
>  		/*
>  		 * If we get a page from the CMA zone, since we are going to
>  		 * be pinning these entries, we might as well move them out
>  		 * of the CMA zone if possible.
>  		 */
>  		if (is_migrate_cma_page(pages[i])) {

I like this but I think for consistency I would change this pages[i] to be
head.  Even though it is not required.

Ira

> -
> -			struct page *head = compound_head(pages[i]);
> -
>  			if (PageHuge(head)) {
>  				isolate_huge_page(head, &cma_page_list);
>  			} else {
> @@ -1369,6 +1372,8 @@ static long check_and_migrate_cma_pages(struct task_struct *tsk,
>  				}
>  			}
>  		}
> +
> +		i += step;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (!list_empty(&cma_page_list)) {
> -- 
> 2.7.5
>