linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 16/18] arm64/mm: Implement pte_batch

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Message-ID: <Zc9WOmh-uYRajvGp@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:34:02 +0000
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
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	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 16/18] arm64/mm: Implement pte_batch_hint()

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:32:03AM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> When core code iterates over a range of ptes and calls ptep_get() for
> each of them, if the range happens to cover contpte mappings, the number
> of pte reads becomes amplified by a factor of the number of PTEs in a
> contpte block. This is because for each call to ptep_get(), the
> implementation must read all of the ptes in the contpte block to which
> it belongs to gather the access and dirty bits.
> 
> This causes a hotspot for fork(), as well as operations that unmap
> memory such as munmap(), exit and madvise(MADV_DONTNEED). Fortunately we
> can fix this by implementing pte_batch_hint() which allows their
> iterators to skip getting the contpte tail ptes when gathering the batch
> of ptes to operate on. This results in the number of PTE reads returning
> to 1 per pte.
> 
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>