Re: [PATCH] kernel/resource: optimize find_next_iomem_res

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 10:36:57PM -0700, Chia-I Wu wrote:
> We can skip children resources when the parent resource does not cover
> the range.
> 
> This should help vmf_insert_* users on x86, such as several DRM drivers.
> On my AMD Ryzen 5 7520C, when streaming data from cpu memory into amdgpu
> bo, the throughput goes from 5.1GB/s to 6.6GB/s.  perf report says
> 
>   34.69%--__do_fault
>   34.60%--amdgpu_gem_fault
>   34.00%--ttm_bo_vm_fault_reserved
>   32.95%--vmf_insert_pfn_prot
>   25.89%--track_pfn_insert
>   24.35%--lookup_memtype
>   21.77%--pat_pagerange_is_ram
>   20.80%--walk_system_ram_range
>   17.42%--find_next_iomem_res
> 
> before this change, and
> 
>   26.67%--__do_fault
>   26.57%--amdgpu_gem_fault
>   25.83%--ttm_bo_vm_fault_reserved
>   24.40%--vmf_insert_pfn_prot
>   14.30%--track_pfn_insert
>   12.20%--lookup_memtype
>   9.34%--pat_pagerange_is_ram
>   8.22%--walk_system_ram_range
>   5.09%--find_next_iomem_res
> 
> after.

That's great, but why is walk_system_ram_range() being called so often?

Shouldn't that be a "set up the device" only type of thing?  Why hammer
on "lookup_memtype" when you know the memtype, you just did the same
thing for the previous frame.

This feels like it could be optimized to just "don't call these things"
which would make it go faster, right?

What am I missing here, why does this always have to be calculated all
the time?  Resource mapping changes are rare, if at all, over the
lifetime of a system uptime.  Constantly calculating something that
never changes feels odd to me.

thanks,

greg k-h