mm: swap: reuse exclusive folio directly instead of wp page faults
After swapping out, we perform a swap-in operation. If we first read and then write, we encounter a major fault in do_swap_page for reading, along with additional minor faults in do_wp_page for writing. However, the latter appears to be unnecessary and inefficient. Instead, we can directly reuse in do_swap_page and completely eliminate the need for do_wp_page. This patch achieves that optimization specifically for exclusive folios. The following microbenchmark demonstrates the significant reduction in minor faults. #define DATA_SIZE (2UL * 1024 * 1024) #define PAGE_SIZE (4UL * 1024) static void *read_write_data(char *addr) { char tmp; for (int i = 0; i < DATA_SIZE; i += PAGE_SIZE) { tmp = *(volatile char *)(addr + i); *(volatile char *)(addr + i) = tmp; } } int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct rusage ru; char *addr = mmap(NULL, DATA_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0); memset(addr, 0x11, DATA_SIZE); do { long old_ru_minflt, old_ru_majflt; long new_ru_minflt, new_ru_majflt; madvise(addr, DATA_SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT); getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &ru); old_ru_minflt = ru.ru_minflt; old_ru_majflt = ru.ru_majflt; read_write_data(addr); getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &ru); new_ru_minflt = ru.ru_minflt; new_ru_majflt = ru.ru_majflt; printf("minor faults:%ld major faults:%ld\n", new_ru_minflt - old_ru_minflt, new_ru_majflt - old_ru_majflt); } while(0); return 0; } w/o patch, / # ~/a.out minor faults:512 major faults:512 w/ patch, / # ~/a.out minor faults:0 major faults:512 Minor faults decrease to 0! Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240602004502.26895-1-21cnbao@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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