Re: [PATCH] mm: Optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 11:11:13AM -0600, Vinay Banakar wrote:
> Another option would be to modify shrink_folio_list() to force batch
> flushes for up to N pages (512) at a time, rather than relying on
> callers to do the batching via folio_list.

If you really want to improve performance, consider converting
shrink_folio_list() to take a folio_batch.  I did this for
page freeing:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240227174254.710559-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
and we did in fact see a regression (due to shrinking the batch size
from 32 to 15).  We then increased the batch size from 15 to 31 and
saw a 12.5% performance improvement on the page_fault2 benchmark
over the original batch size of 32.  Commit 9cecde80aae0 and
https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202403151058.7048f6a8-oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx/
have some more details.

I think you should be able to see a noticable improvement by going from
a list with 512 entries on it to a batch of 31 entries.