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Barry Song d0637c505f arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64

THP_SWAP has been proven to improve the swap throughput significantly
on x86_64 according to commit bd4c82c22c367e ("mm, THP, swap: delay
splitting THP after swapped out").
As long as arm64 uses 4K page size, it is quite similar with x86_64
by having 2MB PMD THP. THP_SWAP is architecture-independent, thus,
enabling it on arm64 will benefit arm64 as well.
A corner case is that MTE has an assumption that only base pages
can be swapped. We won't enable THP_SWAP for ARM64 hardware with
MTE support until MTE is reworked to coexist with THP_SWAP.

A micro-benchmark is written to measure thp swapout throughput as
below,

 unsigned long long tv_to_ms(struct timeval tv)
 {
 	return tv.tv_sec * 1000 + tv.tv_usec / 1000;
 }

 main()
 {
 	struct timeval tv_b, tv_e;;
 #define SIZE 400*1024*1024
 	volatile void *p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
 				MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
 	if (!p) {
 		perror("fail to get memory");
 		exit(-1);
 	}

 	madvise(p, SIZE, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
 	memset(p, 0x11, SIZE); /* write to get mem */

 	gettimeofday(&tv_b, NULL);
 	madvise(p, SIZE, MADV_PAGEOUT);
 	gettimeofday(&tv_e, NULL);

 	printf("swp out bandwidth: %ld bytes/ms\n",
 			SIZE/(tv_to_ms(tv_e) - tv_to_ms(tv_b)));
 }

Testing is done on rk3568 64bit Quad Core Cortex-A55 platform -
ROCK 3A.
thp swp throughput w/o patch: 2734bytes/ms (mean of 10 tests)
thp swp throughput w/  patch: 3331bytes/ms (mean of 10 tests)

Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220720093737.133375-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

2022-07-20 10:52:40 +01:00

boot

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configs

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crypto

crypto: arm64/sm4 - Fix wrong dependency of NEON/CE implementation

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hyperv

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