Re: [PATCH] secretmem: optimize page_is_secretmem()
From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2021-04-19 09:15:19
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On 19.04.21 10:42, Mike Rapoport wrote:
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From: Mike Rapoport <redacted> Kernel test robot reported -4.2% regression of will-it-scale.per_thread_ops due to commit "mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas". The perf profile of the test indicated that the regression is caused by page_is_secretmem() called from gup_pte_range() (inlined by gup_pgd_range): 27.76 +2.5 30.23 perf-profile.children.cycles-pp.gup_pgd_range 0.00 +3.2 3.19 ± 2% perf-profile.children.cycles-pp.page_mapping 0.00 +3.7 3.66 ± 2% perf-profile.children.cycles-pp.page_is_secretmem Further analysis showed that the slow down happens because neither page_is_secretmem() nor page_mapping() are not inline and moreover, multiple page flags checks in page_mapping() involve calling compound_head() several times for the same page. Make page_is_secretmem() inline and replace page_mapping() with page flag checks that do not imply page-to-head conversion. Reported-by: kernel test robot <redacted> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <redacted> --- @Andrew, The patch is vs v5.12-rc7-mmots-2021-04-15-16-28, I'd appreciate if it would be added as a fixup to the memfd_secret series. include/linux/secretmem.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- mm/secretmem.c | 12 +----------- 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)diff --git a/include/linux/secretmem.h b/include/linux/secretmem.h index 907a6734059c..b842b38cbeb1 100644 --- a/include/linux/secretmem.h +++ b/include/linux/secretmem.h@@ -4,8 +4,32 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_SECRETMEM +extern const struct address_space_operations secretmem_aops; + +static inline bool page_is_secretmem(struct page *page) +{ + struct address_space *mapping; + + /* + * Using page_mapping() is quite slow because of the actual call + * instruction and repeated compound_head(page) inside the + * page_mapping() function. + * We know that secretmem pages are not compound and LRU so we can + * save a couple of cycles here. + */ + if (PageCompound(page) || !PageLRU(page)) + return false;
I'd assume secretmem pages are rare in basically every setup out there. So maybe throwing in a couple of likely()/unlikely() might make sense.
+ + mapping = (struct address_space *) + ((unsigned long)page->mapping & ~PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS); +
Not sure if open-coding page_mapping is really a good idea here -- or even necessary after the fast path above is in place. Anyhow, just my 2 cents. The idea of the patch makes sense to me. -- Thanks, David / dhildenb _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel