Hi, Recently I observed there is performance regression on system call mmap(..). I tried both vanilla kernels and Raspberry Pi kernels on a Raspberry Pi 4 box and the results are pretty consistent among them. Bisection showed that the regression starts from k-6.1, and the latest vanilla k-6.7 is still showing the same regression. The test program calls mmap/munmap for a 4K page with MAP_ANON and MAP_PRIVATE flags, and ftrace is used to measure the time spent on the do_mmap(..) call. Measured time of a sample run with different vanilla kernel versions are: k-5.10 and k-6.0: ~157us k-6.1: ~194us k-6.7: ~214us Results are pretty consistent across multiple runs with a small percentage variance. Ftrace shows that latency of mmap_region(...) has increased since k-6.1. An application that makes frequent mmap(..) calls the accumulated extra latency is very noticeable. Please find the ftrace results and kernel config files in this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qy8YTBqxu8Gdbs7IigYbSd4FXldId5sd?usp=drive_link The test program can be found in here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tG6_BbQMCHwfKebvAIAg_xqbM_lpPcuM/view?usp=sharing Info on the testing environment: cpufreq_governor: performance Test machine: Raspberry Pi 4, 8GB DDR SCHED_FIFO with priority 99 for running the test program Vanilla kernels are not tainted. However on k-6.0 and k-6.7, I have to patch the drivers/clk/bcm/clk-raspberrypi.c file with the version in Raspberry Pi kernel tree for the CPU frequency governor to work. Best, Chun [nvpublic]
