Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] mm: refactor __vunmap() to avoid duplicated call to find_vm_area()

[Roman Gushchin]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 02:58:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 12:40:01 -0700 Roman Gushchin <guroan@xxxxxxxxx> 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
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> > @@ -2068,6 +2068,24 @@ struct vm_struct *find_vm_area(const void *addr)
> >  	return NULL;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static struct vm_struct *__remove_vm_area(struct vmap_area *va)
> > +{
> > +	struct vm_struct *vm = va->vm;
> > +
> > +	might_sleep();
> 
> Where might __remove_vm_area() sleep?
> 
> From a quick scan I'm only seeing vfree(), and that has the
> might_sleep_if(!in_interrupt()).
> 
> So perhaps we can remove this...

Agree. Here is the patch.

Thank you!

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