linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] mm/gup: decrement head page once for group of subpages

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Date:   Wed,  3 Feb 2021 22:00:23 +0000
From:   Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] mm/gup: decrement head page once for group of subpages

Rather than decrementing the head page refcount one by one, we
walk the page array and checking which belong to the same
compound_head. Later on we decrement the calculated amount
of references in a single write to the head page. To that
end switch to for_each_compound_head() does most of the work.

set_page_dirty() needs no adjustment as it's a nop for
non-dirty head pages and it doesn't operate on tail pages.

This considerably improves unpinning of pages with THP and
hugetlbfs:

- THP
gup_test -t -m 16384 -r 10 [-L|-a] -S -n 512 -w
PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK (put values): ~87.6k us -> ~23.2k us

- 16G with 1G huge page size
gup_test -f /mnt/huge/file -m 16384 -r 10 [-L|-a] -S -n 512 -w
PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: (put values): ~87.6k us -> ~27.5k us

Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 29 +++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 4f88dcef39f2..971a24b4b73f 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -270,20 +270,15 @@ void unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages,
 				 bool make_dirty)
 {
 	unsigned long index;
-
-	/*
-	 * TODO: this can be optimized for huge pages: if a series of pages is
-	 * physically contiguous and part of the same compound page, then a
-	 * single operation to the head page should suffice.
-	 */
+	struct page *head;
+	unsigned int ntails;
 
 	if (!make_dirty) {
 		unpin_user_pages(pages, npages);
 		return;
 	}
 
-	for (index = 0; index < npages; index++) {
-		struct page *page = compound_head(pages[index]);
+	for_each_compound_head(index, pages, npages, head, ntails) {
 		/*
 		 * Checking PageDirty at this point may race with
 		 * clear_page_dirty_for_io(), but that's OK. Two key
@@ -304,9 +299,9 @@ void unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages,
 		 * written back, so it gets written back again in the
 		 * next writeback cycle. This is harmless.
 		 */
-		if (!PageDirty(page))
-			set_page_dirty_lock(page);
-		unpin_user_page(page);
+		if (!PageDirty(head))
+			set_page_dirty_lock(head);
+		put_compound_head(head, ntails, FOLL_PIN);
 	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock);
@@ -323,6 +318,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock);
 void unpin_user_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages)
 {
 	unsigned long index;
+	struct page *head;
+	unsigned int ntails;
 
 	/*
 	 * If this WARN_ON() fires, then the system *might* be leaking pages (by
@@ -331,13 +328,9 @@ void unpin_user_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages)
 	 */
 	if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR_VALUE(npages)))
 		return;
-	/*
-	 * TODO: this can be optimized for huge pages: if a series of pages is
-	 * physically contiguous and part of the same compound page, then a
-	 * single operation to the head page should suffice.
-	 */
-	for (index = 0; index < npages; index++)
-		unpin_user_page(pages[index]);
+
+	for_each_compound_head(index, pages, npages, head, ntails)
+		put_compound_head(head, ntails, FOLL_PIN);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_pages);
 
-- 
2.17.1