Re: [PATCH v1 9/9] mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP

Yin Fengwei
2024-01-31T02:30:14Z

On 1/29/24 22:32, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> +static inline pte_t get_and_clear_full_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm,
> + unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, unsigned int nr, int full)
> +{
> + pte_t pte, tmp_pte;
> +
> + pte = ptep_get_and_clear_full(mm, addr, ptep, full);
> + while (--nr) {
> + ptep++;
> + addr += PAGE_SIZE;
> + tmp_pte = ptep_get_and_clear_full(mm, addr, ptep, full);
> + if (pte_dirty(tmp_pte))
> + pte = pte_mkdirty(pte);
> + if (pte_young(tmp_pte))
> + pte = pte_mkyoung(pte);
I am wondering whether it's worthy to move the pte_mkdirty() and pte_mkyoung()
out of the loop and just do it one time if needed. The worst case is that they
are called nr - 1 time. Or it's just too micro?

Regards
Yin, Fengwei

> + }
> + return pte;
> +}