Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free

Lance Yang
2024-02-26T13:54:19Z

Hey Ryan,

Thanks for taking time to review!

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 9:00 PM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Lance,
>
> Thanks for working on this!
>
>
> On 25/02/2024 12:32, Lance Yang wrote:
> > This patch improves madvise_free_pte_range() to correctly
> > handle large folio that is smaller than PMD-size
>
> When you say "correctly handle" are you implying there is a bug with the current
> implementation or are you just saying you can optimize this to improve
> performance? I'm not convinced there is a bug, but I agree there is certainly
> room for performance improvement.

I agree with your point, and will update the changelog in v2.

Thanks again for your time!

Best,
Lance

>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
> > (for example, 16KiB to 1024KiB[1]). It’s probably part of
> > the preparation to support anonymous multi-size THP.
> >
> > Additionally, when the consecutive PTEs are mapped to
> > consecutive pages of the same large folio (mTHP), if the
> > folio is locked before madvise(MADV_FREE) or cannot be
> > split, then all subsequent PTEs within the same PMD will
> > be skipped. However, they should have been MADV_FREEed.
> >
> > Moreover, this patch also optimizes lazyfreeing with
> > PTE-mapped mTHP (Inspired by David Hildenbrand[2]). We
> > aim to avoid unnecessary folio splitting if the large
> > folio is entirely within the given range.
> >
> > On an Intel I5 CPU, lazyfreeing a 1GiB VMA backed by
> > PTE-mapped folios of the same size results in the following
> > runtimes for madvise(MADV_FREE) in seconds (shorter is better):
> >
> > Folio Size | Old | New | Change
> > ----------------------------------------------
> > 4KiB | 0.590251 | 0.590264 | 0%
> > 16KiB | 2.990447 | 0.182167 | -94%
> > 32KiB | 2.547831 | 0.101622 | -96%
> > 64KiB | 2.457796 | 0.049726 | -98%
> > 128KiB | 2.281034 | 0.030109 | -99%
> > 256KiB | 2.230387 | 0.015838 | -99%
> > 512KiB | 2.189106 | 0.009149 | -99%
> > 1024KiB | 2.183949 | 0.006620 | -99%
> > 2048KiB | 0.002799 | 0.002795 | 0%
> >
> > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207161211.2374093-5-ryan.roberts@arm.com
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20240214204435.167852-1-david@redhat.com/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > mm/madvise.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> > 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
> > index cfa5e7288261..bcbf56595a2e 100644
> > --- a/mm/madvise.c
> > +++ b/mm/madvise.c
> > @@ -676,11 +676,43 @@ static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
> > */
> > if (folio_test_large(folio)) {
> > int err;
> > + unsigned long next_addr, align;
> >
> > - if (folio_estimated_sharers(folio) != 1)
> > - break;
> > - if (!folio_trylock(folio))
> > - break;
> > + if (folio_estimated_sharers(folio) != 1 ||
> > + !folio_trylock(folio))
> > + goto skip_large_folio;
> > +
> > + align = folio_nr_pages(folio) * PAGE_SIZE;
> > + next_addr = ALIGN_DOWN(addr + align, align);
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * If we mark only the subpages as lazyfree,
> > + * split the large folio.
> > + */
> > + if (next_addr > end || next_addr - addr != align)
> > + goto split_large_folio;
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * Avoid unnecessary folio splitting if the large
> > + * folio is entirely within the given range.
> > + */
> > + folio_test_clear_dirty(folio);
> > + folio_unlock(folio);
> > + for (; addr != next_addr; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> > + ptent = ptep_get(pte);
> > + if (pte_young(ptent) || pte_dirty(ptent)) {
> > + ptent = ptep_get_and_clear_full(
> > + mm, addr, pte, tlb->fullmm);
> > + ptent = pte_mkold(ptent);
> > + ptent = pte_mkclean(ptent);
> > + set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, ptent);
> > + tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb, pte, addr);
> > + }
> > + }
> > + folio_mark_lazyfree(folio);
> > + goto next_folio;
> > +
> > +split_large_folio:
> > folio_get(folio);
> > arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
> > pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl);
> > @@ -688,13 +720,28 @@ static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
> > err = split_folio(folio);
> > folio_unlock(folio);
> > folio_put(folio);
> > - if (err)
> > - break;
> > - start_pte = pte =
> > - pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
> > - if (!start_pte)
> > - break;
> > - arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * If the large folio is locked before madvise(MADV_FREE)
> > + * or cannot be split, we just skip it.
> > + */
> > + if (err) {
> > +skip_large_folio:
> > + if (next_addr >= end)
> > + break;
> > + pte += (next_addr - addr) / PAGE_SIZE;
> > + addr = next_addr;
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (!start_pte) {
> > + start_pte = pte = pte_offset_map_lock(
> > + mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
> > + if (!start_pte)
> > + break;
> > + arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
> > + }
> > +
> > +next_folio:
> > pte--;
> > addr -= PAGE_SIZE;
> > continue;
>