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The reason is the mincore_pte_range() > still checks each PTE individually, even when the PTEs are contiguous, > which is not efficient. > > Thus we can use pte_batch_hint() to get the batch number of the present > contiguous PTEs, which can improve the performance. I tested the mincore() > syscall with 1G anonymous memory populated with 64K mTHP, and observed an > obvious performance improvement: > > w/o patch w/ patch changes > 6022us 549us +91% > > Moreover, I also tested mincore() with disabling mTHP/THP, and did not > see any obvious regression for base pages. > > Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang > --- > Changes from v2: > - Re-calculate the max_nr, per Barry. > Changes from v1: > - Change to use pte_batch_hint() to get the batch number, per Ryan. > > Note: I observed the min_t() can introduce a slight performance regression > for base pages, so I change to add a batch size check for base pages, > which can resolve the performance regression issue. > --- > mm/mincore.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c > index 832f29f46767..42d6c9c8da86 100644 > --- a/mm/mincore.c > +++ b/mm/mincore.c > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ > > #include > #include "swap.h" > +#include "internal.h" > > static int mincore_hugetlb(pte_t *pte, unsigned long hmask, unsigned long addr, > unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk) > @@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ static int mincore_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, > pte_t *ptep; > unsigned char *vec = walk->private; > int nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT; > + int step, i; > > ptl = pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma); > if (ptl) { > @@ -118,16 +120,26 @@ static int mincore_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, > walk->action = ACTION_AGAIN; > return 0; > } > - for (; addr != end; ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) { > + for (; addr != end; ptep += step, addr += step * PAGE_SIZE) { > pte_t pte = ptep_get(ptep); > > + step = 1; > /* We need to do cache lookup too for pte markers */ > if (pte_none_mostly(pte)) > __mincore_unmapped_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, > vma, vec); > - else if (pte_present(pte)) > - *vec = 1; > - else { /* pte is a swap entry */ > + else if (pte_present(pte)) { > + unsigned int batch = pte_batch_hint(ptep, pte); > + > + if (batch > 1) { > + unsigned int max_nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT; Nit: probably would have called this max_step to match step. > + > + step = min_t(unsigned int, batch, max_nr); > + } > + > + for (i = 0; i < step; i++) > + vec[i] = 1; I'm surprised this micro-optimization matters that much. Probably the compiler defers the calculation of max_nr. I am not convinced we need that level of micro-optimization in this code ... But if we're already micro-optimizing, you could have optimized out the loop as well for order-0: unsigned int batch = pte_batch_hint(ptep, pte); if (batch > 1) { unsigned int max_nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT; step = min_t(unsigned int, batch, max_nr); for (i = 0; i < step; i++) vec[i] = 1; } else { *vec = 1; } In any case Acked-by: David Hildenbrand -- Cheers, David / dhildenb