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gup: optimize longterm pin_user_pages() for large folio
authorLi Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
Fri, 6 Jun 2025 02:37:42 +0000 (10:37 +0800)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:42:06 +0000 (22:42 -0700)
commita03db236aebfaeadf79396dbd570896b870bda01
tree0de4225e6e6c12c3eb63bd2c055b77ab9e88310f
parent96d81e4766f9e88b66a0502b5a7f34a4c20ac754
gup: optimize longterm pin_user_pages() for large folio

In the current implementation of longterm pin_user_pages(), we invoke
collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios().  This function iterates through the
list to check whether each folio belongs to the "longterm_unpinnabled"
category.  The folios in this list essentially correspond to a contiguous
region of userspace addresses, with each folio representing a physical
address in increments of PAGESIZE.

If this userspace address range is mapped with large folio, we can
optimize the performance of function collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios()
by reducing the using of READ_ONCE() invoked in
pofs_get_folio()->page_folio()->_compound_head().

Also, we can simplify the logic of collect_longterm_unpinnable_folios().
Instead of comparing with prev_folio after calling pofs_get_folio(), we
can check whether the next page is within the same folio.

The performance test results, based on v6.15, obtained through the
gup_test tool from the kernel source tree are as follows.  We achieve an
improvement of over 66% for large folio with pagesize=2M.  For small
folio, we have only observed a very slight degradation in performance.

Without this patch:

    [root@localhost ~] ./gup_test -HL -m 8192 -n 512
    TAP version 13
    1..1
    # PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: Time: get:14391 put:10858 us#
    ok 1 ioctl status 0
    # Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
    [root@localhost ~]# ./gup_test -LT -m 8192 -n 512
    TAP version 13
    1..1
    # PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: Time: get:130538 put:31676 us#
    ok 1 ioctl status 0
    # Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0

With this patch:

    [root@localhost ~] ./gup_test -HL -m 8192 -n 512
    TAP version 13
    1..1
    # PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: Time: get:4867 put:10516 us#
    ok 1 ioctl status 0
    # Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0
    [root@localhost ~]# ./gup_test -LT -m 8192 -n 512
    TAP version 13
    1..1
    # PIN_LONGTERM_BENCHMARK: Time: get:131798 put:31328 us#
    ok 1 ioctl status 0
    # Totals: pass:1 fail:0 xfail:0 xpass:0 skip:0 error:0

[lizhe.67@bytedance.com: whitespace fix, per David]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250606091917.91384-1-lizhe.67@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250606023742.58344-1-lizhe.67@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@bytedance.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/gup.c