Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: speed up mremap by 500x on large regions

Anton Ivanov
2018-10-12T16:58:40Z

On 10/12/18 5:50 PM, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 05:42:24PM +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote:
>> On 10/12/18 3:48 PM, Anton Ivanov wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2018 15:37, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 03:09:49PM +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote:
>>>>> On 10/12/18 2:37 AM, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
>>>>>> Android needs to mremap large regions of memory during
>>>>>> memory management
>>>>>> related operations. The mremap system call can be really
>>>>>> slow if THP is
>>>>>> not enabled. The bottleneck is move_page_tables, which is copying each
>>>>>> pte at a time, and can be really slow across a large map.
>>>>>> Turning on THP
>>>>>> may not be a viable option, and is not for us. This patch
>>>>>> speeds up the
>>>>>> performance for non-THP system by copying at the PMD level
>>>>>> when possible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The speed up is three orders of magnitude. On a 1GB mremap, the mremap
>>>>>> completion times drops from 160-250 millesconds to 380-400
>>>>>> microseconds.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Before:
>>>>>> Total mremap time for 1GB data: 242321014 nanoseconds.
>>>>>> Total mremap time for 1GB data: 196842467 nanoseconds.
>>>>>> Total mremap time for 1GB data: 167051162 nanoseconds.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After:
>>>>>> Total mremap time for 1GB data: 385781 nanoseconds.
>>>>>> Total mremap time for 1GB data: 388959 nanoseconds.
>>>>>> Total mremap time for 1GB data: 402813 nanoseconds.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Incase THP is enabled, the optimization is skipped. I also flush the
>>>>>> tlb every time we do this optimization since I couldn't find a way to
>>>>>> determine if the low-level PTEs are dirty. It is seen that the cost of
>>>>>> doing so is not much compared the improvement, on both
>>>>>> x86-64 and arm64.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cc: minchan@kernel.org
>>>>>> Cc: pantin@google.com
>>>>>> Cc: hughd@google.com
>>>>>> Cc: lokeshgidra@google.com
>>>>>> Cc: dancol@google.com
>>>>>> Cc: mhocko@kernel.org
>>>>>> Cc: kirill@shutemov.name
>>>>>> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>    mm/mremap.c | 62
>>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>    1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
>>>>>> index 9e68a02a52b1..d82c485822ef 100644
>>>>>> --- a/mm/mremap.c
>>>>>> +++ b/mm/mremap.c
>>>>>> @@ -191,6 +191,54 @@ static void move_ptes(struct
>>>>>> vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *old_pmd,
>>>>>>            drop_rmap_locks(vma);
>>>>>>    }
>>>>>> +static bool move_normal_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>>>>>> unsigned long old_addr,
>>>>>> +          unsigned long new_addr, unsigned long old_end,
>>>>>> +          pmd_t *old_pmd, pmd_t *new_pmd, bool *need_flush)
>>>>>> +{
>>>>>> +    spinlock_t *old_ptl, *new_ptl;
>>>>>> +    struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +    if ((old_addr & ~PMD_MASK) || (new_addr & ~PMD_MASK)
>>>>>> +        || old_end - old_addr < PMD_SIZE)
>>>>>> +        return false;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +    /*
>>>>>> +     * The destination pmd shouldn't be established, free_pgtables()
>>>>>> +     * should have release it.
>>>>>> +     */
>>>>>> +    if (WARN_ON(!pmd_none(*new_pmd)))
>>>>>> +        return false;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +    /*
>>>>>> +     * We don't have to worry about the ordering of src and dst
>>>>>> +     * ptlocks because exclusive mmap_sem prevents deadlock.
>>>>>> +     */
>>>>>> +    old_ptl = pmd_lock(vma->vm_mm, old_pmd);
>>>>>> +    if (old_ptl) {
>>>>>> +        pmd_t pmd;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +        new_ptl = pmd_lockptr(mm, new_pmd);
>>>>>> +        if (new_ptl != old_ptl)
>>>>>> +            spin_lock_nested(new_ptl, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +        /* Clear the pmd */
>>>>>> +        pmd = *old_pmd;
>>>>>> +        pmd_clear(old_pmd);
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +        VM_BUG_ON(!pmd_none(*new_pmd));
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +        /* Set the new pmd */
>>>>>> +        set_pmd_at(mm, new_addr, new_pmd, pmd);
>>>>> UML does not have set_pmd_at at all
>>>> Every architecture does. :)
>>> I tried to build it patching vs 4.19-rc before I made this statement and
>>> ran into that.
>>>
>>> Presently it does not.
>>>
>>> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.19-rc7/ident/set_pmd_at - UML is not
>>> on the list.
>> Once this problem as well as the omissions in the include changes for UML in
>> patch one have been fixed it appears to be working.
>>
>> What it needs is attached.
>>
>>
>>>> But it may come not from the arch code.
>>> There is no generic definition as far as I can see. All 12 defines in
>>> 4.19 are in arch specific code. Unless i am missing something...
>>>
>>>>> If I read the code right, MIPS completely ignores the address
>>>>> argument so
>>>>> set_pmd_at there may not have the effect which this patch is trying to
>>>>> achieve.
>>>> Ignoring address is fine. Most architectures do that..
>>>> The ideas is to move page table to the new pmd slot. It's nothing to do
>>>> with the address passed to set_pmd_at().
>>> If that is it's only function, then I am going to appropriate the code
>>> out of the MIPS tree for further uml testing. It does exactly that -
>>> just move the pmd the new slot.
>>>
>>> A.
>>
>> A.
>>
>> From ac265d96897a346b05646fce91784ed4922c7f8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:24:10 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] Incremental fixes to the mmremap patch
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
>> ---
>> arch/um/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 4 ++--
>> arch/um/include/asm/pgtable.h | 3 +++
>> arch/um/kernel/tlb.c | 6 ++++++
>> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/um/include/asm/pgalloc.h
>> index bf90b2aa2002..99eb5682792a 100644
>> --- a/arch/um/include/asm/pgalloc.h
>> +++ b/arch/um/include/asm/pgalloc.h
>> @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
>> extern pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *);
>> extern void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd);
>>
>> -extern pte_t *pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long);
>> -extern pgtable_t pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long);
>> +extern pte_t *pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *);
>> +extern pgtable_t pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *);
> If its Ok, let me handle this bit since otherwise it complicates things for
> me.
>
>> static inline void pte_free_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *pte)
>> {
>> diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/um/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> index 7485398d0737..1692da55e63a 100644
>> --- a/arch/um/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> +++ b/arch/um/include/asm/pgtable.h
>> @@ -359,4 +359,7 @@ do { \
>> __flush_tlb_one((vaddr)); \
>> } while (0)
>>
>> +extern void set_pmd_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>> + pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd);
>> +
>> #endif
>> diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/tlb.c b/arch/um/kernel/tlb.c
>> index 763d35bdda01..d17b74184ba0 100644
>> --- a/arch/um/kernel/tlb.c
>> +++ b/arch/um/kernel/tlb.c
>> @@ -647,3 +647,9 @@ void force_flush_all(void)
>> vma = vma->vm_next;
>> }
>> }
>> +void set_pmd_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>> + pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd)
>> +{
>> + *pmdp = pmd;
>> +}
>> +
> I believe this should be included in a separate patch since it is not related
> specifically to pte_alloc argument removal. If you want, I could split it
> into a separate patch for my series with you as author.

Whichever is more convenient for you.

One thing to note - tlb flush is extremely expensive on uml.

I have lifted the definition of set_pmd_at from the mips tree and
removed the tlb_flush_all from it for this exact reason.

If I read the original patch correctly, it does its own flush control so
set_pmd_at does not need to do a force flush every time. It is done
further up the chain.

Brgds,

A.

>
> thanks,
>
> - Joel
>
>

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