mm: vmalloc: avoid calling __find_vmap_area() twice in __vunmap()
authorUladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Thu, 22 Dec 2022 19:00:20 +0000 (20:00 +0100)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 19 Jan 2023 01:12:48 +0000 (17:12 -0800)
commitedd898181e2f6f0969c08e1dfe2b7cdf902b9b33
treea36aec58f87324ebec3f3fd3217750778ba4b50a
parentb5054174ac7c7d8fae15deee7ddc0e20fd604f30
mm: vmalloc: avoid calling __find_vmap_area() twice in __vunmap()

Currently the __vunmap() path calls __find_vmap_area() twice.  Once on
entry to check that the area exists, then inside the remove_vm_area()
function which also performs a new search for the VA.

In order to improvie it from a performance point of view we split
remove_vm_area() into two new parts:
  - find_unlink_vmap_area() that does a search and unlink from tree;
  - __remove_vm_area() that removes without searching.

In this case there is no any functional change for remove_vm_area()
whereas vm_remove_mappings(), where a second search happens, switches to
the __remove_vm_area() variant where the already detached VA is passed as
a parameter, so there is no need to find it again.

Performance wise, i use test_vmalloc.sh with 32 threads doing alloc
free on a 64-CPUs-x86_64-box:

perf without this patch:
-   31.41%     0.50%  vmalloc_test/10  [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] __vunmap
   - 30.92% __vunmap
      - 17.67% _raw_spin_lock
           native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
      - 12.33% remove_vm_area
         - 11.79% free_vmap_area_noflush
            - 11.18% _raw_spin_lock
                 native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
        0.76% free_unref_page

perf with this patch:
-   11.35%     0.13%  vmalloc_test/14  [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] __vunmap
   - 11.23% __vunmap
      - 8.28% find_unlink_vmap_area
         - 7.95% _raw_spin_lock
              7.44% native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
      - 1.93% free_vmap_area_noflush
         - 0.56% _raw_spin_lock
              0.53% native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
        0.60% __vunmap_range_noflush

__vunmap() consumes around ~20% less CPU cycles on this test.

Also, switch from find_vmap_area() to find_unlink_vmap_area() to prevent a
double access to the vmap_area_lock: one for finding area, second time is
for unlinking from a tree.

[urezki@gmail.com: switch to find_unlink_vmap_area() in vm_unmap_ram()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222190022.134380-2-urezki@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221222190022.134380-1-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sony.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c