Call set_pte_range() once per contiguous range of the folio instead
of once per page. This batches the updates to mm counters and the
rmap.
With a will-it-scale.page_fault3 like app (change file write
fault testing to read fault testing. Trying to upstream it to
will-it-scale at [1]) got 15% performance gain on a 48C/96T
Cascade Lake test box with 96 processes running against xfs.
Perf data collected before/after the change:
18.73%--page_add_file_rmap
|
--11.60%--__mod_lruvec_page_state
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|--7.40%--__mod_memcg_lruvec_state
| |
| --5.58%--cgroup_rstat_updated
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--2.53%--__mod_lruvec_state
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--1.48%--__mod_node_page_state