[PATCH 0/5] Speed up mremap on large regions

Kalesh Singh kaleshsingh at google.com
Wed Sep 30 18:21:17 EDT 2020


mremap time can be optimized by moving entries at the PMD/PUD level if
the source and destination addresses are PMD/PUD-aligned and
PMD/PUD-sized. Enable moving at the PMD and PUD levels on arm64 and
x86. Other architectures where this type of move is supported and known to
be safe can also opt-in to these optimizations by enabling HAVE_MOVE_PMD
and HAVE_MOVE_PUD.

Observed Performance Improvements for remapping a PUD-aligned 1GB-sized
region on x86 and arm64:

    - HAVE_MOVE_PMD is already enabled on x86 : N/A
    - Enabling HAVE_MOVE_PUD on x86   : ~13x speed up

    - Enabling HAVE_MOVE_PMD on arm64 : ~ 8x speed up
    - Enabling HAVE_MOVE_PUD on arm64 : ~19x speed up

          Altogether, HAVE_MOVE_PMD and HAVE_MOVE_PUD
          give a total of ~150x speed up on arm64.


Kalesh Singh (5):
  kselftests: vm: Add mremap tests
  arm64: mremap speedup - Enable HAVE_MOVE_PMD
  mm: Speedup mremap on 1GB or larger regions
  arm64: mremap speedup - Enable HAVE_MOVE_PUD
  x86: mremap speedup - Enable HAVE_MOVE_PUD

 arch/Kconfig                             |   7 +
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                       |   2 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h         |   1 +
 arch/x86/Kconfig                         |   1 +
 mm/mremap.c                              | 211 +++++++++++++++++---
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/.gitignore    |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/Makefile      |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/mremap_test.c | 243 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/vm/run_vmtests   |  11 +
 9 files changed, 448 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/vm/mremap_test.c

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