[PATCH v2 2/4] mm/gup: decrement head page once for group of subpages

[Joao Martins]

Rather than decrementing the head page refcount one by one, we
walk the page array and checking which belong to the same
compound_head. Later on we decrement the calculated amount
of references in a single write to the head page. To that
end switch to for_each_compound_head() does most of the work.

set_page_dirty() needs no adjustment as it's a nop for
non-dirty head pages and it doesn't operate on tail pages.

This considerably improves unpinning of pages with THP and
hugetlbfs:

- THP
gup_test -t -m 16384 -r 10 [-L|-a] -S -n 512 -w
PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK (put values): ~87.6k us -> ~23.2k us

- 16G with 1G huge page size
gup_test -f /mnt/huge/file -m 16384 -r 10 [-L|-a] -S -n 512 -w
PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: (put values): ~87.6k us -> ~27.5k us

Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/gup.c | 29 +++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index d1549c61c2f6..5a3dd235017a 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -270,20 +270,15 @@ void unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages,
 				 bool make_dirty)
 {
 	unsigned long index;
-
-	/*
-	 * TODO: this can be optimized for huge pages: if a series of pages is
-	 * physically contiguous and part of the same compound page, then a
-	 * single operation to the head page should suffice.
-	 */
+	struct page *head;
+	unsigned int ntails;
 
 	if (!make_dirty) {
 		unpin_user_pages(pages, npages);
 		return;
 	}
 
-	for (index = 0; index < npages; index++) {
-		struct page *page = compound_head(pages[index]);
+	for_each_compound_head(index, pages, npages, head, ntails) {
 		/*
 		 * Checking PageDirty at this point may race with
 		 * clear_page_dirty_for_io(), but that's OK. Two key
@@ -304,9 +299,9 @@ void unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages,
 		 * written back, so it gets written back again in the
 		 * next writeback cycle. This is harmless.
 		 */
-		if (!PageDirty(page))
-			set_page_dirty_lock(page);
-		unpin_user_page(page);
+		if (!PageDirty(head))
+			set_page_dirty_lock(head);
+		put_compound_head(head, ntails, FOLL_PIN);
 	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock);
@@ -323,6 +318,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock);
 void unpin_user_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages)
 {
 	unsigned long index;
+	struct page *head;
+	unsigned int ntails;
 
 	/*
 	 * If this WARN_ON() fires, then the system *might* be leaking pages (by
@@ -331,13 +328,9 @@ void unpin_user_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages)
 	 */
 	if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR_VALUE(npages)))
 		return;
-	/*
-	 * TODO: this can be optimized for huge pages: if a series of pages is
-	 * physically contiguous and part of the same compound page, then a
-	 * single operation to the head page should suffice.
-	 */
-	for (index = 0; index < npages; index++)
-		unpin_user_page(pages[index]);
+
+	for_each_compound_head(index, pages, npages, head, ntails)
+		put_compound_head(head, ntails, FOLL_PIN);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unpin_user_pages);
 
-- 
2.17.1