mm: support batched unmap for lazyfree large folios during reclamation
Currently, the PTEs and rmap of a large folio are removed one at a time. This is not only slow but also causes the large folio to be unnecessarily added to deferred_split, which can lead to races between the deferred_split shrinker callback and memory reclamation. This patch releases all PTEs and rmap entries in a batch. Currently, it only handles lazyfree large folios. The below microbench tries to reclaim 128MB lazyfree large folios whose sizes are 64KiB: #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <string.h> #include <time.h> #define SIZE 128*1024*1024 // 128 MB unsigned long read_split_deferred() { FILE *file = fopen("/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage" "/hugepages-64kB/stats/split_deferred", "r"); if (!file) { perror("Error opening file"); return 0; } unsigned long value; if (fscanf(file, "%lu", &value) != 1) { perror("Error reading value"); fclose(file); return 0; } fclose(file); return value; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { while(1) { volatile int *p = mmap(0, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0); memset((void *)p, 1, SIZE); madvise((void *)p, SIZE, MADV_FREE); clock_t start_time = clock(); unsigned long start_split = read_split_deferred(); madvise((void *)p, SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT); clock_t end_time = clock(); unsigned long end_split = read_split_deferred(); double elapsed_time = (double)(end_time - start_time) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC; printf("Time taken by reclamation: %f seconds, split_deferred: %ld\n", elapsed_time, end_split - start_split); munmap((void *)p, SIZE); } return 0; } w/o patch: ~ # ./a.out Time taken by reclamation: 0.177418 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.178348 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.174525 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.171620 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.172241 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.174003 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.171058 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.171993 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.169829 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.172895 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.176063 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.172568 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.171185 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.170632 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.170208 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 Time taken by reclamation: 0.174192 seconds, split_deferred: 2048 ... w/ patch: ~ # ./a.out Time taken by reclamation: 0.074231 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.071026 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.072029 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.071873 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.073573 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.071906 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.073604 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.075903 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.073191 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.071228 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.071391 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.071468 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.071896 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.072508 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.071884 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.072433 seconds, split_deferred: 0 Time taken by reclamation: 0.071939 seconds, split_deferred: 0 ... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250214093015.51024-4-21cnbao@gmail.com Signed-off-by:Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chis Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@canonical.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@redhat.com> Cc: Tangquan Zheng <zhengtangquan@oppo.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yicong Yang <yangyicong@hisilicon.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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