Re: [PATCH v8 02/14] mm/gup: check every subpage of a compound page during isolation

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:22:18PM +0000, Joao Martins wrote:

> With this, longterm gup will 'regress' for hugetlbfs e.g. from ~6k -> 32k usecs when
> pinning a 16G hugetlb file.

Yes, but correctness demands it.

The solution is to track these pages as we discover them so we know if
a PMD/PUD points and can directly skip the duplicated work

> Splitting can only occur on THP right? If so, perhaps we could
> retain the @step increment for compound pages but when
> !is_transparent_hugepage(head) or just PageHuge(head) like:

Honestly I'd rather see it fixed properly which will give even bigger
performance gains - avoiding the entire rescan of the page list will
be a win

Jason



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