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Patch series "mm/gup: page unpining improvements", v4. This series improves page unpinning, with an eye on improving MR deregistration for big swaths of memory (which is bound by the page unpining), particularly: 1) Decrement the head page by @ntails and thus reducing a lot the number of atomic operations per compound page. This is done by comparing individual tail pages heads, and counting number of consecutive tails on which they match heads and based on that update head page refcount. Should have a visible improvement in all page (un)pinners which use compound pages 2) Introducing a new API for unpinning page ranges (to avoid the trick in the previous item and be based on math), and use that in RDMA ib_mem_release (used for mr deregistration). Performance improvements: unpin_user_pages() for hugetlbfs and THP improves ~3x (through gup_test) and RDMA MR dereg improves ~4.5x with the new API. See patches 2 and 4 for those. This patch (of 4): Add a helper that iterates over head pages in a list of pages. It essentially counts the tails until the next page to process has a different head that the current. This is going to be used by unpin_user_pages() family of functions, to batch the head page refcount updates once for all passed consecutive tail pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210212130843.13865-1-joao.m.martins@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210212130843.13865-2-joao.m.martins@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Suggested-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.