Re: [PATCH] secretmem: optimize page_is_secretmem()

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On 19.04.21 10:42, Mike Rapoport wrote:
From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Kernel test robot reported -4.2% regression of will-it-scale.per_thread_ops
due to commit "mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret"
memory areas".

The perf profile of the test indicated that the regression is caused by
page_is_secretmem() called from gup_pte_range() (inlined by gup_pgd_range):

  27.76  +2.5  30.23       perf-profile.children.cycles-pp.gup_pgd_range
   0.00  +3.2   3.19 ± 2%  perf-profile.children.cycles-pp.page_mapping
   0.00  +3.7   3.66 ± 2%  perf-profile.children.cycles-pp.page_is_secretmem

Further analysis showed that the slow down happens because neither
page_is_secretmem() nor page_mapping() are not inline and moreover,
multiple page flags checks in page_mapping() involve calling
compound_head() several times for the same page.

Make page_is_secretmem() inline and replace page_mapping() with page flag
checks that do not imply page-to-head conversion.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

@Andrew,
The patch is vs v5.12-rc7-mmots-2021-04-15-16-28, I'd appreciate if it would
be added as a fixup to the memfd_secret series.

  include/linux/secretmem.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
  mm/secretmem.c            | 12 +-----------
  2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/secretmem.h b/include/linux/secretmem.h
index 907a6734059c..b842b38cbeb1 100644
--- a/include/linux/secretmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/secretmem.h
@@ -4,8 +4,32 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_SECRETMEM +extern const struct address_space_operations secretmem_aops;
+
+static inline bool page_is_secretmem(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping;
+
+	/*
+	 * Using page_mapping() is quite slow because of the actual call
+	 * instruction and repeated compound_head(page) inside the
+	 * page_mapping() function.
+	 * We know that secretmem pages are not compound and LRU so we can
+	 * save a couple of cycles here.
+	 */
+	if (PageCompound(page) || !PageLRU(page))
+		return false;

I'd assume secretmem pages are rare in basically every setup out there. So maybe throwing in a couple of likely()/unlikely() might make sense.

+
+	mapping = (struct address_space *)
+		((unsigned long)page->mapping & ~PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS);
+

Not sure if open-coding page_mapping is really a good idea here -- or even necessary after the fast path above is in place. Anyhow, just my 2 cents.

The idea of the patch makes sense to me.

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb






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