+ mm-damon-improve-damon_new_region-strategy.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/damon: improve damon_new_region strategy
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-damon-improve-damon_new_region-strategy.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-damon-improve-damon_new_region-strategy.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Dawei Li <set_pte_at@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/damon: improve damon_new_region strategy
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 22:39:03 +0800

Kdamond is implemented as a periodical split-merge pattern, which will
create and destroy regions possibly at high frequency (hundreds or even
thousands of per sec), depending on the number of regions and aggregation
period.  In that case, kmalloc and kfree could bring speed and space
overheads, which can be improved by using a private kmem cache.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/TYCP286MB2323DA1894FA55BB9CF90978CA449@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dawei Li <set_pte_at@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/damon/core.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/damon/core.c~mm-damon-improve-damon_new_region-strategy
+++ a/mm/damon/core.c
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ static bool running_exclusive_ctxs;
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(damon_ops_lock);
 static struct damon_operations damon_registered_ops[NR_DAMON_OPS];
 
+static struct kmem_cache *damon_region_cache __ro_after_init;
+
 /* Should be called under damon_ops_lock with id smaller than NR_DAMON_OPS */
 static bool __damon_is_registered_ops(enum damon_ops_id id)
 {
@@ -119,7 +121,7 @@ struct damon_region *damon_new_region(un
 {
 	struct damon_region *region;
 
-	region = kmalloc(sizeof(*region), GFP_KERNEL);
+	region = kmem_cache_alloc(damon_region_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!region)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -148,7 +150,7 @@ static void damon_del_region(struct damo
 
 static void damon_free_region(struct damon_region *r)
 {
-	kfree(r);
+	kmem_cache_free(damon_region_cache, r);
 }
 
 void damon_destroy_region(struct damon_region *r, struct damon_target *t)
@@ -1279,4 +1281,18 @@ bool damon_find_biggest_system_ram(unsig
 	return true;
 }
 
+static int __init damon_init(void)
+{
+	damon_region_cache = kmem_cache_create("damon_region_cache", sizeof(struct damon_region),
+		0, 0, NULL);
+	if (unlikely(!damon_region_cache)) {
+		pr_err("creating damon_region_cache fails\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+subsys_initcall(damon_init);
+
 #include "core-test.h"
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from set_pte_at@xxxxxxxxxxx are

mm-damon-improve-damon_new_region-strategy.patch