[PATCH -V2] mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible

From: Huang Ying
Date: Mon Apr 24 2023 - 02:54:37 EST


Hi, Andrew,

The version 1 of this patch was merged in mm-unstable branch. If you
want to move that patch into mm-stable recently, it may be better to
update that patch with this new version firstly. If you want to do
that after v6.4-rc1, I will rebase this patch and resend it after
v6.4-rc1 is released.

Hi, Amit,

The patch has been changed based on comments from Xin. I keep your
"reviewed-by" because I think the change is trivial. But if you think
it's inappropriate, I will change that.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

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0Day/LKP reported a performance regression for commit
7e12beb8ca2a ("migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB"). In the commit, the
TLB flushing during page migration is batched. So, in
try_to_migrate_one(), ptep_clear_flush() is replaced with
set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(). In further investigation, it is found
that the TLB flushing can be avoided in ptep_clear_flush() if the PTE
is inaccessible. In fact, we can optimize in similar way for the
batched TLB flushing too to improve the performance.

So in this patch, we check pte_accessible() before
set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending() in try_to_unmap/migrate_one(). Tests show
that the benchmark score of the anon-cow-rand-mt test case of
vm-scalability test suite can improve up to 2.1% with the patch on a
Intel server machine. The TLB flushing IPI can reduce up to 44.3%.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202303192325.ecbaf968-yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/ab92aaddf1b52ede15e2c608696c36765a2602c1.camel@xxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: 7e12beb8ca2a ("migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: haoxin <xhao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/rmap.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 8632e02661ac..be19232e94f4 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -641,10 +641,14 @@ void try_to_unmap_flush_dirty(void)
#define TLB_FLUSH_BATCH_PENDING_LARGE \
(TLB_FLUSH_BATCH_PENDING_MASK / 2)

-static void set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm, bool writable)
+static void set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t pteval)
{
struct tlbflush_unmap_batch *tlb_ubc = &current->tlb_ubc;
int batch, nbatch;
+ bool writable = pte_dirty(pteval);
+
+ if (!pte_accessible(mm, pteval))
+ return;

arch_tlbbatch_add_mm(&tlb_ubc->arch, mm);
tlb_ubc->flush_required = true;
@@ -731,7 +735,7 @@ void flush_tlb_batched_pending(struct mm_struct *mm)
}
}
#else
-static void set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm, bool writable)
+static void set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t pteval)
{
}

@@ -1582,7 +1586,7 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
*/
pteval = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, pvmw.pte);

- set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(mm, pte_dirty(pteval));
+ set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(mm, pteval);
} else {
pteval = ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pvmw.pte);
}
@@ -1963,7 +1967,7 @@ static bool try_to_migrate_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
*/
pteval = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, pvmw.pte);

- set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(mm, pte_dirty(pteval));
+ set_tlb_ubc_flush_pending(mm, pteval);
} else {
pteval = ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pvmw.pte);
}
--
2.39.2