On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 04:14:16AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 11:02:32PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > How many instructions it takes for a late RETRY for WRITEs to private file > > > mappings, fallback to mmap_sem? > > > > Doesn't matter. That happens _once_ per VMA, and it's dwarfed by the > > cost of allocating and initialising the COWed page. You're adding > > instructions to every single page fault. I'm not happy that we had to > > add extra instructions to the fault path for single-threaded programs, > > but we at least had the justification that we were improving scalability > > on large systems. Your excuse is "it makes the code cleaner". And > > honestly, I don't think it even does that. > > Suren, what would you think to this? > > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c > index 6e2fe960473d..e495adcbe968 100644 > --- a/mm/memory.c > +++ b/mm/memory.c > @@ -5821,15 +5821,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct *lock_vma_under_rcu(struct mm_struct *mm, > if (!vma_start_read(vma)) > goto inval; > > - /* > - * find_mergeable_anon_vma uses adjacent vmas which are not locked. > - * This check must happen after vma_start_read(); otherwise, a > - * concurrent mremap() with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP could dissociate the VMA > - * from its anon_vma. > - */ > - if (unlikely(vma_is_anonymous(vma) && !vma->anon_vma)) > - goto inval_end_read; > - > /* Check since vm_start/vm_end might change before we lock the VMA */ > if (unlikely(address < vma->vm_start || address >= vma->vm_end)) > goto inval_end_read; > > That takes a few insns out of the page fault path (good!) at the cost > of one extra trip around the fault handler for the first fault on an > anon vma. It makes the file & anon paths more similar to each other > (good!) > > We'd need some data to be sure it's really a win, but less code is > always good. You at least need two things: (1) don't throw away Jann's comment so easily (2) have a look on whether anon memory has the fallback yet, at all Maybe someone can already comment in a harsh way on this one, but no, I'm not going to be like that. I still don't understand why you don't like so much to not fallback at all if we could, the flags I checked was all in hot cache I think anyway. And since I'm also enough on how you comment in your previous replies, I'll leave the rest comments for others. -- Peter Xu
