Android needs to mremap large regions of memory during memory management
related operations. The mremap system call can be really slow if THP is
not enabled. The bottleneck is move_page_tables, which is copying each
pte at a time, and can be really slow across a large map. Turning on
THP may not be a viable option, and is not for us. This patch speeds up
the performance for non-THP system by copying at the PMD level when
possible.
The speedup is an order of magnitude on x86 (~20x). On a 1GB mremap,
the mremap completion times drops from 3.4-3.6 milliseconds to 144-160
microseconds.
Before:
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 3521942 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 3449229 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 3488230 nanoseconds.
After:
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 150279 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 144665 nanoseconds.
Total mremap time for 1GB data: 158708 nanoseconds.
If THP is enabled the optimization is mostly skipped except in certain
situations.
[joel@joelfernandes.org: fix 'move_normal_pmd' unused function warning]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108224457.GB209347@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-3-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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