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Message-ID: <3f6fa335-9c09-4ed0-925b-82c5bf0e89be@lucifer.local>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:15:48 +0000
From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>
To: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 12/17] mm: move lesser used vma_area_struct members
 into the last cacheline

On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 08:25:59PM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> Move several vma_area_struct members which are rarely or never used
> during page fault handling into the last cacheline to better pack
> vm_area_struct. As a result vm_area_struct will fit into 3 as opposed
> to 4 cachelines. New typical vm_area_struct layout:
>
> struct vm_area_struct {
>     union {
>         struct {
>             long unsigned int vm_start;              /*     0     8 */
>             long unsigned int vm_end;                /*     8     8 */
>         };                                           /*     0    16 */
>         freeptr_t          vm_freeptr;               /*     0     8 */
>     };                                               /*     0    16 */
>     struct mm_struct *         vm_mm;                /*    16     8 */
>     pgprot_t                   vm_page_prot;         /*    24     8 */
>     union {
>         const vm_flags_t   vm_flags;                 /*    32     8 */
>         vm_flags_t         __vm_flags;               /*    32     8 */
>     };                                               /*    32     8 */
>     unsigned int               vm_lock_seq;          /*    40     4 */
>
>     /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
>
>     struct list_head           anon_vma_chain;       /*    48    16 */
>     /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
>     struct anon_vma *          anon_vma;             /*    64     8 */
>     const struct vm_operations_struct  * vm_ops;     /*    72     8 */
>     long unsigned int          vm_pgoff;             /*    80     8 */
>     struct file *              vm_file;              /*    88     8 */
>     void *                     vm_private_data;      /*    96     8 */
>     atomic_long_t              swap_readahead_info;  /*   104     8 */
>     struct mempolicy *         vm_policy;            /*   112     8 */
>     struct vma_numab_state *   numab_state;          /*   120     8 */
>     /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
>     refcount_t          vm_refcnt (__aligned__(64)); /*   128     4 */
>
>     /* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
>
>     struct {
>         struct rb_node     rb (__aligned__(8));      /*   136    24 */
>         long unsigned int  rb_subtree_last;          /*   160     8 */
>     } __attribute__((__aligned__(8))) shared;        /*   136    32 */
>     struct anon_vma_name *     anon_name;            /*   168     8 */
>     struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx  vm_userfaultfd_ctx;   /*   176     8 */
>
>     /* size: 192, cachelines: 3, members: 18 */
>     /* sum members: 176, holes: 2, sum holes: 8 */
>     /* padding: 8 */
>     /* forced alignments: 2, forced holes: 1, sum forced holes: 4 */
> } __attribute__((__aligned__(64)));
>
> Memory consumption per 1000 VMAs becomes 48 pages:
>
>     slabinfo after vm_area_struct changes:
>      <name>           ... <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : ...
>      vm_area_struct   ...    192   42    2 : ...
>
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>

Looks sensible to me:

Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>

> ---
>  include/linux/mm_types.h | 38 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> index 9228d19662c6..d902e6730654 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -725,17 +725,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
>  	 */
>  	unsigned int vm_lock_seq;
>  #endif
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * For areas with an address space and backing store,
> -	 * linkage into the address_space->i_mmap interval tree.
> -	 *
> -	 */
> -	struct {
> -		struct rb_node rb;
> -		unsigned long rb_subtree_last;
> -	} shared;
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * A file's MAP_PRIVATE vma can be in both i_mmap tree and anon_vma
>  	 * list, after a COW of one of the file pages.	A MAP_SHARED vma
> @@ -755,14 +744,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
>  	struct file * vm_file;		/* File we map to (can be NULL). */
>  	void * vm_private_data;		/* was vm_pte (shared mem) */
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME
> -	/*
> -	 * For private and shared anonymous mappings, a pointer to a null
> -	 * terminated string containing the name given to the vma, or NULL if
> -	 * unnamed. Serialized by mmap_lock. Use anon_vma_name to access.
> -	 */
> -	struct anon_vma_name *anon_name;
> -#endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
>  	atomic_long_t swap_readahead_info;
>  #endif
> @@ -775,7 +756,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
>  	struct vma_numab_state *numab_state;	/* NUMA Balancing state */
>  #endif
> -	struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx vm_userfaultfd_ctx;
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
>  	/* Unstable RCU readers are allowed to read this. */
>  	refcount_t vm_refcnt ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
> @@ -783,6 +763,24 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
>  	struct lockdep_map vmlock_dep_map;
>  #endif
>  #endif
> +	/*
> +	 * For areas with an address space and backing store,
> +	 * linkage into the address_space->i_mmap interval tree.
> +	 *
> +	 */
> +	struct {
> +		struct rb_node rb;
> +		unsigned long rb_subtree_last;
> +	} shared;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME
> +	/*
> +	 * For private and shared anonymous mappings, a pointer to a null
> +	 * terminated string containing the name given to the vma, or NULL if
> +	 * unnamed. Serialized by mmap_lock. Use anon_vma_name to access.
> +	 */
> +	struct anon_vma_name *anon_name;
> +#endif
> +	struct vm_userfaultfd_ctx vm_userfaultfd_ctx;
>  } __randomize_layout;
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> --
> 2.47.1.613.gc27f4b7a9f-goog
>

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