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mm: free swp_entry in madvise_free
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:03:48 +0000 (09:03 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:03:48 +0000 (09:03 +1100)
commita43232cf6f476465ad654756189ecaecce8be4ec
treebf543b973c470ae1980485be913d63515baa3c30
parenta1fda0fab41d47a921f606de39822e432201244e
mm: free swp_entry in madvise_free

When I test below piece of code with 12 processes(ie, 512M * 12 = 6G
consume) on my (3G ram + 12 cpu + 8G swap, the madvise_free is siginficat
slower (ie, 2x times) than madvise_dontneed.

loop = 5;
mmap(512M);
while (loop--) {
        memset(512M);
        madvise(MADV_FREE or MADV_DONTNEED);
}

The reason is lots of swapin.

1) dontneed: 1,612 swapin
2) madvfree: 879,585 swapin

If we find hinted pages were already swapped out when syscall is called,
it's pointless to keep the swapped-out pages in pte.
Instead, let's free the cold page because swapin is more expensive
than (alloc page + zeroing).

With this patch, it reduced swapin from 879,585 to 1,878 so elapsed time

1) dontneed: 6.10user 233.50system 0:50.44elapsed
2) madvfree: 6.03user 401.17system 1:30.67elapsed
2) madvfree + below patch: 6.70user 339.14system 1:04.45elapsed

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/madvise.c