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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 3/6] mm, proc: reduce cost of /proc/pid/smaps for shmem mappings
On Wed 18-11-15 10:29:33, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> The previous patch has improved swap accounting for shmem mapping, which
> however made /proc/pid/smaps more expensive for shmem mappings, as we consult
> the radix tree for each pte_none entry, so the overal complexity is
> O(n*log(n)).
>
> We can reduce this significantly for mappings that cannot contain COWed pages,
> because then we can either use the statistics tha shmem object itself tracks
> (if the mapping contains the whole object, or the swap usage of the whole
> object is zero), or use the radix tree iterator, which is much more effective
> than repeated find_get_entry() calls.
>
> This patch therefore introduces a function shmem_swap_usage(vma) and makes
> /proc/pid/smaps use it when possible. Only for writable private mappings of
> shmem objects (i.e. tmpfs files) with the shmem object itself (partially)
> swapped outwe have to resort to the find_get_entry() approach. Hopefully
> such mappings are relatively uncommon.
>
> To demonstrate the diference, I have measured this on a process that creates
> a 2GB mapping and dirties single pages with a stride of 2MB, and time how long
> does it take to cat /proc/pid/smaps of this process 100 times.
>
> Private writable mapping of a /dev/shm/file (the most complex case):
>
> real 0m3.831s
> user 0m0.180s
> sys 0m3.212s
>
> Shared mapping of an almost full mapping of a partially swapped /dev/shm/file
> (which needs to employ the radix tree iterator).
>
> real 0m1.351s
> user 0m0.096s
> sys 0m0.768s
>
> Same, but with /dev/shm/file not swapped (so no radix tree walk needed)
>
> real 0m0.935s
> user 0m0.128s
> sys 0m0.344s
>
> Private anonymous mapping:
>
> real 0m0.949s
> user 0m0.116s
> sys 0m0.348s
>
> The cost is now much closer to the private anonymous mapping case, unless the
> shmem mapping is private and writable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Looks good to me
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


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