[PATCH v3 5/8] mm: extend the template fast path to zone-device compound tails

[Li Zhe]

The template fast path from the previous patch only accelerates head
pages. Compound tails in memmap_init_compound() still go through the
slow path one by one.

Build separate head and tail templates and reuse one prepared tail
template across the tail pages in a compound range. Head pages preserve
the existing refcount policy, while compound tails always start with a
refcount of 0 after prep_compound_tail().

This extends the template-copy fast path to pfns_per_compound > 1
without changing the existing slow path. Tail-page PFN-dependent fields
are refreshed in the reusable tail template before each copy.

Tested in a VM with a 100 GB devdax namespace (align=2097152) on Intel
Ice Lake server. This test exercises the dax_pmem rebind path and
measures memmap initialization latency.

Test procedure:
Unbind and rebind the dax_pmem driver 30 times, collect memmap
initialization time from the pr_debug() output of memmap_init_zone_device().

Base(v7.1-rc3):
  First binding: 1515 ms
  Average of subsequent rebinds: 313.45 ms

With this patch and its prerequisites applied:
  First binding: 1422 ms
  Average of subsequent rebinds: 240.42 ms

This reduces the average rebind time from 313.45 ms to 240.42 ms, or
about 23.3%.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhe <lizhe.67@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/mm_init.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index 53c0241c66b7..d5ccb49a048f 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -1077,17 +1077,25 @@ static inline bool zone_device_page_init_optimization_enabled(void)
 	return !page_ref_tracepoint_active(page_ref_set);
 }
 
-static inline void zone_device_template_page_init(struct page *template,
-						  unsigned long pfn,
-						  unsigned long zone_idx,
-						  int nid,
-						  struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
+static inline void zone_device_template_head_page_init(struct page *template,
+		unsigned long pfn, unsigned long zone_idx, int nid,
+		struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
 {
 	__zone_device_page_init(template, pfn, zone_idx, nid, pgmap);
 	if (!pagemap_resets_refcount(pgmap))
 		set_page_count(template, 0);
 }
 
+static inline void zone_device_template_tail_page_init(struct page *template,
+		unsigned long pfn, unsigned long zone_idx, int nid,
+		struct dev_pagemap *pgmap, const struct page *head,
+		unsigned int order)
+{
+	__zone_device_page_init(template, pfn, zone_idx, nid, pgmap);
+	prep_compound_tail(template, head, order);
+	set_page_count(template, 0);
+}
+
 /*
  * 'template' is a reusable page prototype rather than a strictly immutable
  * object. Most ZONE_DEVICE fields stay constant across the pages covered by
@@ -1139,10 +1147,12 @@ static void __ref memmap_init_compound(struct page *head,
 				       unsigned long head_pfn,
 				       unsigned long zone_idx, int nid,
 				       struct dev_pagemap *pgmap,
-				       unsigned long nr_pages)
+				       unsigned long nr_pages,
+				       bool use_template)
 {
 	unsigned long pfn, end_pfn = head_pfn + nr_pages;
 	unsigned int order = pgmap->vmemmap_shift;
+	struct page template;
 
 	/*
 	 * We have to initialize the pages, including setting up page links.
@@ -1151,9 +1161,25 @@ static void __ref memmap_init_compound(struct page *head,
 	 * the pages in the same go.
 	 */
 	__SetPageHead(head);
+
+	/*
+	 * All tails of the same compound page share the state established by
+	 * prep_compound_tail(). Reuse one tail template for the whole range and
+	 * refresh only the PFN-dependent fields in that template before each copy.
+	 */
+	if (use_template)
+		zone_device_template_tail_page_init(&template, head_pfn + 1,
+						    zone_idx, nid, pgmap,
+						    head, order);
+
 	for (pfn = head_pfn + 1; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
 		struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
 
+		if (use_template) {
+			zone_device_page_init_from_template(page, pfn,
+							    &template);
+			continue;
+		}
 		zone_device_page_init_slow(page, pfn, zone_idx, nid, pgmap);
 		prep_compound_tail(page, head, order);
 		set_page_count(page, 0);
@@ -1190,8 +1216,8 @@ void __ref memmap_init_zone_device(struct zone *zone,
 	}
 
 	if (use_template)
-		zone_device_template_page_init(&template, start_pfn, zone_idx,
-					       nid, pgmap);
+		zone_device_template_head_page_init(&template, start_pfn,
+						    zone_idx, nid, pgmap);
 
 	for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += pfns_per_compound) {
 		struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
@@ -1207,7 +1233,8 @@ void __ref memmap_init_zone_device(struct zone *zone,
 			continue;
 
 		memmap_init_compound(page, pfn, zone_idx, nid, pgmap,
-				     compound_nr_pages(altmap, pgmap));
+				     compound_nr_pages(altmap, pgmap),
+				     use_template);
 	}
 
 	pr_debug("%s initialised %lu pages in %ums\n", __func__,
-- 
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