Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: refactor __vunmap() to avoid duplicated call to find_vm_area()

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 2/25/19 9:30 PM, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> __vunmap() calls find_vm_area() twice without an obvious reason:
> first directly to get the area pointer, second indirectly by calling
> remove_vm_area(), which is again searching for the area.
> 
> To remove this redundancy, let's split remove_vm_area() into
> __remove_vm_area(struct vmap_area *), which performs the actual area
> removal, and remove_vm_area(const void *addr) wrapper, which can
> be used everywhere, where it has been used before.
> 
> On my test setup, I've got 5-10% speed up on vfree()'ing 1000000
> of 4-pages vmalloc blocks.
> 
> Perf report before:
>   22.64%  cat      [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] free_pcppages_bulk
>   10.30%  cat      [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __vunmap
>    9.80%  cat      [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] find_vmap_area
>    8.11%  cat      [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] vunmap_page_range
>    4.20%  cat      [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __slab_free
>    3.56%  cat      [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] __list_del_entry_valid
>    3.46%  cat      [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] smp_call_function_many
>    3.33%  cat      [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] kfree
>    3.32%  cat      [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] free_unref_page
> 
> Perf report after:
>   23.01%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] free_pcppages_bulk
>    9.46%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __vunmap
>    9.15%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] vunmap_page_range
>    6.17%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __slab_free
>    5.61%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] kfree
>    4.86%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] bad_range
>    4.67%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] free_unref_page_commit
>    4.24%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __list_del_entry_valid
>    3.68%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] free_unref_page
>    3.65%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __list_add_valid
>    3.19%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __purge_vmap_area_lazy
>    3.10%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] find_vmap_area
>    3.05%  cat      [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] rcu_cblist_dequeue
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>