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RDMA/core: not to set page dirty bit if it's already set.
authorQing Huang <qing.huang@oracle.com>
Thu, 18 May 2017 23:33:53 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
committerChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Thu, 6 Jul 2017 02:44:49 +0000 (19:44 -0700)
commitcceed4280c0ba1fdc4ae6fd8f315443a6593cdce
tree500a86eb652eb1ec7782b83a3fda691e712ef426
parentd7e95bf4ed7e6901465bdfb77ad2e776b4a77fd9
RDMA/core: not to set page dirty bit if it's already set.

This change will optimize kernel memory deregistration operations.
__ib_umem_release() used to call set_page_dirty_lock() against every
writable page in its memory region. Its purpose is to keep data
synced between CPU and DMA device when swapping happens after mem
deregistration ops. Now we choose not to set page dirty bit if it's
already set by kernel prior to calling __ib_umem_release(). This
reduces memory deregistration time by half or even more when we ran
application simulation test program.

Orabug: 24313031

Signed-off-by: Qing Huang <qing.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from upstream commit 53376fedb9da54c0d3b0bd3a6edcbeb681692909)
Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com>
drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c