Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1] mm: add a total mapcount for large folios

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Okay, so your speculation right now is:

1) The change in cacheline might be problematic.

2) The additional atomic operation might be problematic.

then measure the split (by e.g. mprotect() at offset 1M on a 4K?) time it
takes before/after this patch.

I can certainly try getting some numbers on that. If you're aware of other
micro-benchmarks that would likely notice slower pte-mapping of THPs, please
let me know.

Thanks.

If I effectively only measure the real PTE->PMD remapping (only measure the for loop that mprotects() one 4k page inside each of 512 THPs ) without any of the mmap+populate+munmap, I can certainly measure a real difference.

I briefly looked at some perf data across the overall benchmark runtime.

For page_remove_rmap(), the new atomic_dec() doesn't seem to be significant. Data indicates that it's significantly less relevant than a later atomic_add_negative().

For page_add_anon_rmap(), it's a bit fuzzy. Definitely, the atomic_inc_return_relaxed(mapped) seems to stick out, but I cannot rule out that the atomic_add() also plays a role.


The PTE->PMD remapping effectively does (__split_huge_pmd_locked())

for (i = 0, addr = haddr; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
	...
	page_add_anon_rmap(page + i, vma, addr, RMAP_NONE);
	...
}
...
page_remove_rmap(page, vma, true);


Inside that loop we're repeatedly accessing the total_mapcount and _nr_pages_mapped. So my best guess would have been that both are already hot in the cache.

RMAP batching certainly sounds like a good idea for __split_huge_pmd_locked(), independent of this patch.


What would probably also interesting is observing happens when we unmap a single PTE of a THP and we cannot batch, to see if the page_remove_rmap() matters in the bigger scale.

I'll do some more digging tomorrow to clarify some details. Running some kernel compile tests with thp=always at least didn't reveal any surprises so far.

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb




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