mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP
authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:46:47 +0000 (13:46 +0100)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 18:24:52 +0000 (10:24 -0800)
commitf8d937761d65c87e9987b88ea7beb7bddc333a0e
tree6edd4909404ead5e5992f863fb928ce2b6523bef
parent53723298ba436830fdf0744c19b57b2a18f44041
mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP

Let's implement PTE batching when consecutive (present) PTEs map
consecutive pages of the same large folio, and all other PTE bits besides
the PFNs are equal.

We will optimize folio_pte_batch() separately, to ignore selected PTE
bits.  This patch is based on work by Ryan Roberts.

Use __always_inline for __copy_present_ptes() and keep the handling for
single PTEs completely separate from the multi-PTE case: we really want
the compiler to optimize for the single-PTE case with small folios, to not
degrade performance.

Note that PTE batching will never exceed a single page table and will
always stay within VMA boundaries.

Further, processing PTE-mapped THP that maybe pinned and have
PageAnonExclusive set on at least one subpage should work as expected, but
there is room for improvement: We will repeatedly (1) detect a PTE batch
(2) detect that we have to copy a page (3) fall back and allocate a single
page to copy a single page.  For now we won't care as pinned pages are a
corner case, and we should rather look into maintaining only a single
PageAnonExclusive bit for large folios.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240129124649.189745-14-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/pgtable.h
mm/memory.c