4e4a9eb921
In __anon_vma_prepare(), we will try to find anon_vma if it is possible to
reuse it. While on fork, the logic is different.
Since commit 5beb49305251 ("mm: change anon_vma linking to fix
multi-process server scalability issue"), function anon_vma_clone() tries
to allocate new anon_vma for child process. But the logic here will
allocate a new anon_vma for each vma, even in parent this vma is mergeable
and share the same anon_vma with its sibling. This may do better for
scalability issue, while it is not necessary to do so especially after
interval tree is used.
Commit 7a3ef208e662 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")
tries to reuse some anon_vma by counting child anon_vma and attached vmas.
While for those mergeable anon_vmas, we can just reuse it and not
necessary to go through the logic.
After this change, kernel build test reduces 20% anon_vma allocation.
Do the same kernel build test, it shows run time in sys reduced 11.6%.
Origin:
real 2m50.467s
user 17m52.002s
sys 1m51.953s
real 2m48.662s
user 17m55.464s
sys 1m50.553s
real 2m51.143s
user 17m59.687s
sys 1m53.600s
Patched:
real 2m39.933s
user 17m1.835s
sys 1m38.802s
real 2m39.321s
user 17m1.634s
sys 1m39.206s
real 2m39.575s
user 17m1.420s
sys 1m38.845s
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011072256.16275-2-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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