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mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:52:24 +0000 (15:52 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 21 Apr 2023 23:07:58 +0000 (16:07 -0700)
commit8941149d4363beeba9ebb8dd3031234a87057515
tree53ff889a55cf904c727318169267b0be0e82d624
parent438233fe4d17b4b706ab0c541e4150eca57c20ef
mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible

0Day/LKP reported a performance regression for commit 7e12beb8ca2a
("migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB").  In the commit, the TLB flushing
during page migration is batched.  So, in try_to_migrate_one(),
ptep_clear_flush() is replaced with set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending().  In
further investigation, it is found that the TLB flushing can be avoided in
ptep_clear_flush() if the PTE is inaccessible.  In fact, we can optimize
in similar way for the batched TLB flushing too to improve the
performance.

So in this patch, we check pte_accessible() before
set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending() in try_to_unmap/migrate_one().  Tests show
that the benchmark score of the anon-cow-rand-mt test case of
vm-scalability test suite can improve up to 2.1% with the patch on a Intel
server machine.  The TLB flushing IPI can reduce up to 44.3%.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202303192325.ecbaf968-yujie.liu@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/ab92aaddf1b52ede15e2c608696c36765a2602c1.camel@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230410075224.827740-1-ying.huang@intel.com
Fixes: 7e12beb8ca2a ("migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB")
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/rmap.c