Re: [PATCH] mm: release the spinlock on zap_pte_range

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Mon 29-07-19 16:10:37, Minchan Kim wrote:
> In our testing(carmera recording), Miguel and Wei found unmap_page_range
> takes above 6ms with preemption disabled easily. When I see that, the
> reason is it holds page table spinlock during entire 512 page operation
> in a PMD. 6.2ms is never trivial for user experince if RT task couldn't
> run in the time because it could make frame drop or glitch audio problem.

Where is the time spent during the tear down? 512 pages doesn't sound
like a lot to tear down. Is it the TLB flushing?

> This patch adds preemption point like coyp_pte_range.
> 
> Reported-by: Miguel de Dios <migueldedios@google.com>
> Reported-by: Wei Wang <wvw@google.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> ---
>  mm/memory.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 2e796372927fd..bc3e0c5e4f89b 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1007,6 +1007,7 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
>  				struct zap_details *details)
>  {
>  	struct mm_struct *mm = tlb->mm;
> +	int progress = 0;
>  	int force_flush = 0;
>  	int rss[NR_MM_COUNTERS];
>  	spinlock_t *ptl;
> @@ -1022,7 +1023,16 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
>  	flush_tlb_batched_pending(mm);
>  	arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
>  	do {
> -		pte_t ptent = *pte;
> +		pte_t ptent;
> +
> +		if (progress >= 32) {
> +			progress = 0;
> +			if (need_resched())
> +				break;
> +		}
> +		progress += 8;

Why 8?

> +
> +		ptent = *pte;
>  		if (pte_none(ptent))
>  			continue;
>  
> @@ -1123,8 +1133,11 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
>  	if (force_flush) {
>  		force_flush = 0;
>  		tlb_flush_mmu(tlb);
> -		if (addr != end)
> -			goto again;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (addr != end) {
> +		progress = 0;
> +		goto again;
>  	}
>  
>  	return addr;
> -- 
> 2.22.0.709.g102302147b-goog

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs