[RFC PATCH v2 2/3] xpfo: Only put previous userspace pages into the hot cache
From: Juerg Haefliger
Date: Fri Sep 02 2016 - 07:40:37 EST
Allocating a page to userspace that was previously allocated to the
kernel requires an expensive TLB shootdown. To minimize this, we only
put non-kernel pages into the hot cache to favor their allocation.
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/xpfo.h | 2 ++
mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +++++++-
mm/xpfo.c | 8 ++++++++
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/xpfo.h b/include/linux/xpfo.h
index 77187578ca33..077d1cfadfa2 100644
--- a/include/linux/xpfo.h
+++ b/include/linux/xpfo.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ extern void xpfo_alloc_page(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp);
extern void xpfo_free_page(struct page *page, int order);
extern bool xpfo_page_is_unmapped(struct page *page);
+extern bool xpfo_page_is_kernel(struct page *page);
#else /* !CONFIG_XPFO */
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ static inline void xpfo_alloc_page(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp) { }
static inline void xpfo_free_page(struct page *page, int order) { }
static inline bool xpfo_page_is_unmapped(struct page *page) { return false; }
+static inline bool xpfo_page_is_kernel(struct page *page) { return false; }
#endif /* CONFIG_XPFO */
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 0241c8a7e72a..83404b41e52d 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2421,7 +2421,13 @@ void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, bool cold)
}
pcp = &this_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset)->pcp;
- if (!cold)
+ /*
+ * XPFO: Allocating a page to userspace that was previously allocated
+ * to the kernel requires an expensive TLB shootdown. To minimize this,
+ * we only put non-kernel pages into the hot cache to favor their
+ * allocation.
+ */
+ if (!cold && !xpfo_page_is_kernel(page))
list_add(&page->lru, &pcp->lists[migratetype]);
else
list_add_tail(&page->lru, &pcp->lists[migratetype]);
diff --git a/mm/xpfo.c b/mm/xpfo.c
index ddb1be05485d..f8dffda0c961 100644
--- a/mm/xpfo.c
+++ b/mm/xpfo.c
@@ -203,3 +203,11 @@ inline bool xpfo_page_is_unmapped(struct page *page)
return test_bit(PAGE_EXT_XPFO_UNMAPPED, &lookup_page_ext(page)->flags);
}
+
+inline bool xpfo_page_is_kernel(struct page *page)
+{
+ if (!static_branch_unlikely(&xpfo_inited))
+ return false;
+
+ return test_bit(PAGE_EXT_XPFO_KERNEL, &lookup_page_ext(page)->flags);
+}
--
2.9.3