Re: [PATCH v2] mm: fault in complete folios instead of individual pages for tmpfs

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 04.07.25 05:19, Baolin Wang wrote:
> After commit acd7ccb284b8 ("mm: shmem: add large folio support for tmpfs"),
> tmpfs can also support large folio allocation (not just PMD-sized large
> folios).
> 
> However, when accessing tmpfs via mmap(), although tmpfs supports large folios,
> we still establish mappings at the base page granularity, which is unreasonable.
> 
> We can map multiple consecutive pages of a tmpfs folios at once according to
> the size of the large folio. On one hand, this can reduce the overhead of page
> faults; on the other hand, it can leverage hardware architecture optimizations
> to reduce TLB misses, such as contiguous PTEs on the ARM architecture.
> 
> Moreover, tmpfs mount will use the 'huge=' option to control large folio
> allocation explicitly. So it can be understood that the process's RSS statistics
> might increase, and I think this will not cause any obvious effects for users.
> 
> Performance test:
> I created a 1G tmpfs file, populated with 64K large folios, and write-accessed it
> sequentially via mmap(). I observed a significant performance improvement:
> 
> Before the patch:
> real	0m0.158s
> user	0m0.008s
> sys	0m0.150s
> 
> After the patch:
> real	0m0.021s
> user	0m0.004s
> sys	0m0.017s
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> Changes from v1:
>   - Drop the unnecessary IS_ALIGNED() check, per David.
>   - Update the commit message, per David.
> ---
>   mm/memory.c | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 0f9b32a20e5b..9944380e947d 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -5383,10 +5383,10 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>   
>   	/*
>   	 * Using per-page fault to maintain the uffd semantics, and same
> -	 * approach also applies to non-anonymous-shmem faults to avoid
> +	 * approach also applies to non shmem/tmpfs faults to avoid
>   	 * inflating the RSS of the process.
>   	 */
> -	if (!vma_is_anon_shmem(vma) || unlikely(userfaultfd_armed(vma)) ||
> +	if (!vma_is_shmem(vma) || unlikely(userfaultfd_armed(vma)) ||
>   	    unlikely(needs_fallback)) {
>   		nr_pages = 1;
>   	} else if (nr_pages > 1) {

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb