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>
unpin_user_pages(pofs->pages, pofs->nr_entries);
}
+static struct folio *pofs_next_folio(struct folio *folio,
+ struct pages_or_folios *pofs, long *index_ptr)
+{
+ long i = *index_ptr + 1;
+
+ if (!pofs->has_folios && folio_test_large(folio)) {
+ const unsigned long start_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
+ const unsigned long end_pfn = start_pfn + folio_nr_pages(folio);
+
+ for (; i < pofs->nr_entries; i++) {
+ unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(pofs->pages[i]);
+
+ /* Is this page part of this folio? */
+ if (pfn < start_pfn || pfn >= end_pfn)
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (unlikely(i == pofs->nr_entries))
+ return NULL;
+ *index_ptr = i;
+
+ return pofs_get_folio(pofs, i);
+}
+
/*
* Returns the number of collected folios. Return value is always >= 0.
*/
struct list_head *movable_folio_list,
struct pages_or_folios *pofs)
{
- unsigned long i, collected = 0;
- struct folio *prev_folio = NULL;
+ unsigned long collected = 0;
bool drain_allow = true;
+ struct folio *folio;
+ long i = 0;
- for (i = 0; i < pofs->nr_entries; i++) {
- struct folio *folio = pofs_get_folio(pofs, i);
-
- if (folio == prev_folio)
- continue;
- prev_folio = folio;
+ for (folio = pofs_get_folio(pofs, i); folio;
+ folio = pofs_next_folio(folio, pofs, &i)) {
if (folio_is_longterm_pinnable(folio))
continue;