The patch titled mremap: avoid sending one IPI per page has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mremap-avoid-sending-one-ipi-per-page.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mremap: avoid sending one IPI per page From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> This replaces ptep_clear_flush() with ptep_get_and_clear() and a single flush_tlb_range() at the end of the loop, to avoid sending one IPI for each page. The mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end section is enlarged accordingly but this is not going to fundamentally change things. It was more by accident that the region under mremap was for the most part still available for secondary MMUs: the primary MMU was never allowed to reliably access that region for the duration of the mremap (modulo trapping SIGSEGV on the old address range which sounds unpractical and flakey). If users wants secondary MMUs not to lose access to a large region under mremap they should reduce the mremap size accordingly in userland and run multiple calls. Overall this will run faster so it's actually going to reduce the time the region is under mremap for the primary MMU which should provide a net benefit to apps. For KVM this is a noop because the guest physical memory is never mremapped, there's just no point it ever moving it while guest runs. One target of this optimization is JVM GC (so unrelated to the mmu notifier logic). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mremap.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/mremap.c~mremap-avoid-sending-one-ipi-per-page mm/mremap.c --- a/mm/mremap.c~mremap-avoid-sending-one-ipi-per-page +++ a/mm/mremap.c @@ -80,11 +80,7 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_str struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm; pte_t *old_pte, *new_pte, pte; spinlock_t *old_ptl, *new_ptl; - unsigned long old_start; - old_start = old_addr; - mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(vma->vm_mm, - old_start, old_end); if (vma->vm_file) { /* * Subtle point from Rajesh Venkatasubramanian: before @@ -111,7 +107,7 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_str new_pte++, new_addr += PAGE_SIZE) { if (pte_none(*old_pte)) continue; - pte = ptep_clear_flush(vma, old_addr, old_pte); + pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, old_addr, old_pte); pte = move_pte(pte, new_vma->vm_page_prot, old_addr, new_addr); set_pte_at(mm, new_addr, new_pte, pte); } @@ -123,7 +119,6 @@ static void move_ptes(struct vm_area_str pte_unmap_unlock(old_pte - 1, old_ptl); if (mapping) mutex_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); - mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(vma->vm_mm, old_start, old_end); } #define LATENCY_LIMIT (64 * PAGE_SIZE) @@ -134,10 +129,13 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm { unsigned long extent, next, old_end; pmd_t *old_pmd, *new_pmd; + bool need_flush = false; old_end = old_addr + len; flush_cache_range(vma, old_addr, old_end); + mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(vma->vm_mm, old_addr, old_end); + for (; old_addr < old_end; old_addr += extent, new_addr += extent) { cond_resched(); next = (old_addr + PMD_SIZE) & PMD_MASK; @@ -158,7 +156,12 @@ unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm extent = LATENCY_LIMIT; move_ptes(vma, old_pmd, old_addr, old_addr + extent, new_vma, new_pmd, new_addr); + need_flush = true; } + if (likely(need_flush)) + flush_tlb_range(vma, old_end-len, old_addr); + + mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(vma->vm_mm, old_end-len, old_end); return len + old_addr - old_end; /* how much done */ } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-compaction-trivial-clean-up-in-acct_isolated.patch mm-change-isolate-mode-from-define-to-bitwise-type.patch mm-compaction-make-isolate_lru_page-filter-aware.patch mm-zone_reclaim-make-isolate_lru_page-filter-aware.patch mm-migration-clean-up-unmap_and_move.patch mremap-check-for-overflow-using-deltas.patch mremap-avoid-sending-one-ipi-per-page.patch thp-mremap-support-and-tlb-optimization.patch thp-mremap-support-and-tlb-optimization-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html