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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=4.0.1 X-Rspamd-Server: rspam07 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 7134C4000F X-Stat-Signature: 5y35gsb876kau7gw3g5hi5edbms96rqe X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1794316379-925009 X-HE-Meta: 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 uxEq+ALR dQjDdc8G0Ef1HT0E254XgJ10ddLn4Qm8ZuDr6eVVz8kEFdAX+n55+53hHjSIgAFcFcjO9K6XUbHIenh4W2eHMtVVTBg88/EoCVGkhJ9i1kRt/Vvj28egEKoItGS7IuVPkT2z3TXpCvsnf8x3li/W6ykcvztrzHITL2C/DhLRnl6qVaUHgA2jTGZnF4sI0ns3C4gU9naekqhMh3zTtsUVQUJ8Di8r92GQNqh+zMbFzJgYTLf3OsE2+oGJQGQrsTrYZoHdbMiXi6DzdJkMNPcHu4mRzreXpG/9/GWZUpetJWvLHl83yyhKNpyJMMzGjyiiK9l7GWY9tVHXrhkgySwzQzIL3bVVM/KJ/MNLv Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.1 (2024-03-26) on aws-us-west-2-korg-listserv-alma10-1 On 11/9/26 13:32, Yeoreum Yun wrote: > GUP-fast grabs a PTE-mapped large folio one page at a time. Every PTE > costs a try_grab_folio_fast() (a refcount cmpxchg, plus the pincount > atomic, a full barrier and a node stat update for FOLL_PIN), a > gup_fast_folio_allowed() and a folio_set_referenced(), so a 64 kB mTHP > pays sixteen of each and a PTE-mapped 2 MB THP pays 512. > > The users are the hot ones: iov_iter_extract_user_pages() pins every > O_DIRECT buffer through pin_user_pages_fast(), io_uring registers its > buffers through it, and so does RDMA memory registration. > With mTHP those buffers are PTE-mapped large folios. > > After the head page has been grabbed and verified as before, extend the > run to the following PTEs that map the next pages of the same folio > with the same protection bits, take the remaining references for the > run with try_grab_folio(), and fill pages[] from the run. > The PTEs of the run are read while the reference on the folio is held, > so the folio can neither be collapsed, freed nor split underneath the scan. > A read-only run of an anonymous folio stops at the first page > that gup_must_unshare() rejects, so the per-page exclusivity guarantee for > FOLL_PIN is kept. > > folio_pte_batch_flags() does the scan. It reads the entries with > ptep_get(), which is not safe without the page table lock on > CONFIG_GUP_GET_PXX_LOW_HIGH (x86 PAE, mips32, sh) or with arm64 contpte, > and GUP-fast reads every PTE with ptep_get_lockless() for that reason. > Add FPB_LOCKLESS to make the helper do the same; it is inlined per call > site, so the other callers do not change. > > The order-0 path keeps its instruction sequence. The folio flags are > tested before folio_set_referenced() on purpose: a load of the flags > right after that locked instruction cost about 25% on order-0 pages in > the gup_test benchmark below, and reading them first brings that path > back to the baseline. > > gup_test ioctl over a 256 MB anonymous region, FOLL_WRITE, 65536 pages > per call, median of 15 runs, two baseline boots / one patched boot, on > an x86-64 VM: > > get_user_pages_fast() pin_user_pages_fast() > before after before after > 4 kB pages 849/789 us 783 us 1174/1138 us 1094 us > 64 kB mTHP 812/811 us 126 us 1215/1113 us 188 us > 1 MB mTHP 799/774 us 59 us 1185/1077 us 64 us > 2 MB THP, PTE-mapped 803/786 us 57 us 1159/1120 us 58 us > 2 MB THP, PMD-mapped 42/40 us 40 us 46/41 us 42 us > > fio O_DIRECT randread of a null_blk device (CPU bound) with the I/O > buffer in 64 kB mTHP, median of 15 five-second runs: > > bs=1M psync 126.2/125.6 GB/s -> 220.6 GB/s > bs=1M io_uring, iodepth 16 71.2/71.6 GB/s -> 112.1 GB/s > bs=64k io_uring, iodepth 16 50.2/50.7 GB/s -> 60.1 GB/s > > IORING_REGISTER_BUFFERS of 1 GB, median of 15: > > 64 kB mTHP 6179/5998 us -> 1599 us > 1 MB mTHP 5790/5801 us -> 893 us > 4 kB pages 7173/6741 us -> 6763 us > > Signed-off-by: Yuan-Hao Hsu There should likely be a co-developed-by? (also in the other one?) LGTM, thanks. Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) -- Cheers, David