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

[Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>]

On 10/22/21 6:13 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 04:26:59PM -0700, Anthony Yznaga wrote:
>> On 10/7/21 12:21 PM, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
>>> Instead of calling put_page() one page at a time, pop pages off
>>> the list if their refcount was too high and pass the remainder to
>>> put_unref_page_list().  This should be a speed improvement, but I have
>>> no measurements to support that.  Current callers do not care about
>>> performance, but I hope to add some which do.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
>>> ---
>>> v2:
>>>    - Handle compound pages (Mel)
>>>    - Comment why we don't need to handle PageLRU
>>>    - Added call to __ClearPageWaiters(), matching that in release_pages()
>>>
>>>    mm/swap.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
>>>    1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
>>> index af3cad4e5378..9f334d503fd2 100644
>>> --- a/mm/swap.c
>>> +++ b/mm/swap.c
>>> @@ -134,18 +134,27 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__put_page);
>>>     * put_pages_list() - release a list of pages
>>>     * @pages: list of pages threaded on page->lru
>>>     *
>>> - * Release a list of pages which are strung together on page.lru.  Currently
>>> - * used by read_cache_pages() and related error recovery code.
>>> + * Release a list of pages which are strung together on page.lru.
>>>     */
>>>    void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pages)
>>>    {
>>> -	while (!list_empty(pages)) {
>>> -		struct page *victim;
>>> +	struct page *page, *next;
>>> -		victim = lru_to_page(pages);
>>> -		list_del(&victim->lru);
>>> -		put_page(victim);
>>> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, pages, lru) {
>>> +		if (!put_page_testzero(page)) {
>>> +			list_del(&page->lru);
>>> +			continue;
>>> +		}
>>
>> I know that compound pages are not currently passed to put_pages_list(),
>> but I assume the put_page_testzero() should only be done on the head
>> page similar to release_pages()?
> Fun fact about pages: You can't put a tail page on an LRU list.  Why?
>
> struct page {
> ...
>          union {
>                  struct {        /* Page cache and anonymous pages */
>                          struct list_head lru;
> ...
>                  struct {        /* Tail pages of compound page */
>                          unsigned long compound_head;    /* Bit zero is set */
>
> so if you try to put a tail page on the LRU list, it becomes no longer
> a tail page.

Ah, makes sense.  Thanks!

In that case here's my r-b:

Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>

Anthony