Re: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: optimize the loop in find_suitable_fallback()

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 2/9/23 03:44, Yajun Deng wrote:
> There is no need to execute the next loop if it not return in the first
> loop. So add a break at the end of the loop.
> 
> There are only three rows in fallbacks, so reduce the first index size
> from MIGRATE_TYPES to MIGRATE_PCPTYPES.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 11 +++++------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 1113483fa6c5..536e8d838fb5 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2603,7 +2603,7 @@ struct page *__rmqueue_smallest(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order,
>   *
>   * The other migratetypes do not have fallbacks.
>   */
> -static int fallbacks[MIGRATE_TYPES][MIGRATE_PCPTYPES - 1] = {
> +static int fallbacks[MIGRATE_PCPTYPES][MIGRATE_PCPTYPES - 1] = {
>  	[MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE]   = { MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE, MIGRATE_MOVABLE   },
>  	[MIGRATE_MOVABLE]     = { MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE, MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE },
>  	[MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE] = { MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE,   MIGRATE_MOVABLE   },
> @@ -2861,7 +2861,7 @@ int find_suitable_fallback(struct free_area *area, unsigned int order,
>  	int i;
>  	int fallback_mt;
>  
> -	if (area->nr_free == 0)
> +	if (area->nr_free == 0 || !migratetype_is_mergeable(migratetype))

Just curious, did you the check for extra safety or did you find (by running
or code inspection) that this can be indeed called with a non-mergeable
migratetype, and cause out of bounds access of the shrinked fallbacks array?

BTW, I noticed the commment on migratetype_is_mergeable() contains:

"See fallbacks[MIGRATE_TYPES][3] in page_alloc.c. "

Should probably change it to e.g. "See fallbacks[][] array ..." so we don't
have to keep it in exact sync...

>  		return -1;
>  
>  	*can_steal = false;
> @@ -2873,11 +2873,10 @@ int find_suitable_fallback(struct free_area *area, unsigned int order,
>  		if (can_steal_fallback(order, migratetype))
>  			*can_steal = true;
>  
> -		if (!only_stealable)
> -			return fallback_mt;
> -
> -		if (*can_steal)
> +		if (!only_stealable || *can_steal)
>  			return fallback_mt;
> +		else
> +			break;
>  	}
>  
>  	return -1;