Re: [PATCH v2] mm: Optimise put_pages_list()

[Joao Martins]

On 10/8/21 15:17, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 04:35:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 21:55:21 +0100 Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> My first response is an appeal to authority -- release_pages() does
>>> this same thing.  Only it takes an array, constructs a list and passes
>>> that to put_unref_page_list().  So if that's slower (and lists _are_
>>> slower than arrays), we should have a put_unref_page_array().
>>
>> And put_unref_page_list() does two passes across the list!
>>
>> <quietly sobs>
>>
>> Here is my beautiful release_pages(), as disrtibuted in linux-2.5.33:
> 
> I think that looks much better!
> 

For what is worth, something that was suggested by Jason over the unpin_user_pages*
improvements series was to apply the same trick to how we iterate a page array to
release_pages(). Purpose would be to batch the page refcount update if you pass N
contiguous struct pages.

	Joao