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mm: huge_memory: batch tlb flush when splitting a pte-mapped THP 

I can observe an obvious tlb flush hotspot when splitting a pte-mapped THP
on my ARM64 server, and the distribution of this hotspot is as follows:

   - 16.85% split_huge_page_to_list
      + 7.80% down_write
      - 7.49% try_to_migrate
         - 7.48% rmap_walk_anon
              7.23% ptep_clear_flush
      + 1.52% __split_huge_page

The reason is that the split_huge_page_to_list() will build migration
entries for each subpage of a pte-mapped Anon THP by try_to_migrate(), or
unmap for file THP, and it will clear and tlb flush for each subpage's
pte.  Moreover, the split_huge_page_to_list() will set TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD
flag to ensure the THP is already a pte-mapped THP before splitting it to
some normal pages.

Actually, there is no need to flush tlb for each subpage immediately,
instead we can batch tlb flush for the pte-mapped THP to improve the
performance.

After this patch, we can see the batch tlb flush can improve the latency
obviously when running thpscale.

                             k6.5-base                   patched
Amean     fault-both-1      1071.17 (   0.00%)      901.83 *  15.81%*
Amean     fault-both-3      2386.08 (   0.00%)     1865.32 *  21.82%*
Amean     fault-both-5      2851.10 (   0.00%)     2273.84 *  20.25%*
Amean     fault-both-7      3679.91 (   0.00%)     2881.66 *  21.69%*
Amean     fault-both-12     5916.66 (   0.00%)     4369.55 *  26.15%*
Amean     fault-both-18     7981.36 (   0.00%)     6303.57 *  21.02%*
Amean     fault-both-24    10950.79 (   0.00%)     8752.56 *  20.07%*
Amean     fault-both-30    14077.35 (   0.00%)    10170.01 *  27.76%*
Amean     fault-both-32    13061.57 (   0.00%)    11630.08 *  10.96%*

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/431d9fb6823036369dcb1d3b2f63732f01df21a7.1698488264.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Baolin Wang 2023-10-30 09:11:47 +08:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent d240629148
commit 3027c6f8eb
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@ -2379,7 +2379,7 @@ void vma_adjust_trans_huge(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
static void unmap_folio(struct folio *folio)
{
enum ttu_flags ttu_flags = TTU_RMAP_LOCKED | TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD |
TTU_SYNC;
TTU_SYNC | TTU_BATCH_FLUSH;
VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_large(folio), folio);
@ -2392,6 +2392,8 @@ static void unmap_folio(struct folio *folio)
try_to_migrate(folio, ttu_flags);
else
try_to_unmap(folio, ttu_flags | TTU_IGNORE_MLOCK);
try_to_unmap_flush();
}
static void remap_page(struct folio *folio, unsigned long nr)