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Message-ID: <0425e1e6-f172-91df-2251-7583fcfed3e6@nvidia.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 Feb 2020 13:04:04 -0800
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/12] mm/gup: /proc/vmstat: pin_user_pages (FOLL_PIN)
 reporting

On 2/3/20 5:53 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 07:40:27PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
>> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
>> index c10d0d051c5b..9fe61d15fc0e 100644
>> --- a/mm/gup.c
>> +++ b/mm/gup.c
>> @@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ struct follow_page_context {
>>  	unsigned int page_mask;
>>  };
>>  
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
> 
> Why under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM? There's nothing about this in the cover letter.
> 

Early on, gup_benchmark showed a really significant slowdown from using these 
counters. And I don't doubt that it's still the case.

I'll re-measure and add a short summary and a few numbers to the patch commit
description, and to the v4 cover letter.


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

>> +static inline void __update_proc_vmstat(struct page *page,
>> +					enum node_stat_item item, int count)
>> +{
>> +	mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), item, count);
>> +}
>> +#else
>> +static inline void __update_proc_vmstat(struct page *page,
>> +					enum node_stat_item item, int count)
>> +{
>> +}
>> +#endif
>> +
>>  static void hpage_pincount_add(struct page *page, int refs)
>>  {
>>  	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!hpage_pincount_available(page), page);

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