[PATCH 0/2] support batched checks of the references for large folios

[David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)]

On 11/25/25 01:56, Baolin Wang wrote:
> Currently, folio_referenced_one() always checks the young flag for each PTE
> sequentially, which is inefficient for large folios. This inefficiency is
> especially noticeable when reclaiming clean file-backed large folios, where
> folio_referenced() is observed as a significant performance hotspot.
> 
> Moreover, on Arm architecture, which supports contiguous PTEs, there is already
> an optimization to clear the young flags for PTEs within a contiguous range.
> However, this is not sufficient. We can extend this to perform batched operations
> for the entire large folio (which might exceed the contiguous range: CONT_PTE_SIZE).
> 
> By supporting batched checking of the young flags and flushing TLB entries,
> I observed a 33% performance improvement in my file-backed folios reclaim tests.

Can you point at the benchmark or briefly explain what it does? What 
exactly are we measuring that improves by 33%?

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Cheers

David