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Sat, 13 Jun 2020 05:04:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 17:34:32 +0530 From: afzal mohammed To: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] lib: copy_{from,to}_user using gup & kmap_atomic() Message-ID: <20200613120432.GA5319@afzalpc> References: <9e1de19f35e2d5e1d115c9ec3b7c3284b4a4e077.1591885760.git.afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com> <20200612135538.GA13399@afzalpc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.3 (2018-01-21) X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20200613_050437_972440_ED2A2A96 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 11.99 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Catalin Marinas , Linus Walleij , Russell King - ARM Linux admin , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linux-MM , Will Deacon , Linux ARM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org Hi, On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:07:28PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I think a lot > of usercopy calls are only for a few bytes, though this is of course > highly workload dependent and you might only care about the large > ones. Observation is that max. pages reaching copy_{from,to}_user() is 2, observed maximum of n (number of bytes) being 1 page size. i think C library cuts any size read, write to page size (if it exceeds) & invokes the system call. Max. pages reaching 2, happens when 'n' crosses page boundary, this has been observed w/ small size request as well w/ ones of exact page size (but not page aligned). Even w/ dd of various size >4K, never is the number of pages required to be mapped going greater than 2 (even w/ 'dd' 'bs=1M') i have a worry (don't know whether it is an unnecessary one): even if we improve performance w/ large copy sizes, it might end up in a sluggishness w.r.t user experience due to most (hence a high amount) of user copy calls being few bytes & there the penalty being higher. And benchmark would not be able to detect anything abnormal since usercopy are being tested on large sizes. Quickly comparing boot-time on Beagle Bone White, boot time increases by only 4%, perhaps this worry is irrelevant, but just thought will put it across. > There is also still hope of optimizing small aligned copies like > > set_ttbr0(user_ttbr); > ldm(); > set_ttbr0(kernel_ttbr); > stm(); Hmm, more needs to be done to be in a position to test it. Regards afzal _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel