Commit ddbf369c authored by David Rientjes's avatar David Rientjes Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, vmacache: hash addresses based on pmd

When perf profiling a wide variety of different workloads, it was found
that vmacache_find() had higher than expected cost: up to 0.08% of cpu
utilization in some cases.  This was found to rival other core VM
functions such as alloc_pages_vma() with thp enabled and default
mempolicy, and the conditionals in __get_vma_policy().

VMACACHE_HASH() determines which of the four per-task_struct slots a vma
is cached for a particular address.  This currently depends on the pfn,
so pfn 5212 occupies a different vmacache slot than its neighboring pfn
5213.

vmacache_find() iterates through all four of current's vmacache slots
when looking up an address.  Hashing based on pfn, an address has
~1/VMACACHE_SIZE chance of being cached in the first vmacache slot, or
about 25%, *if* the vma is cached.

This patch hashes an address by its pmd instead of pte to optimize for
workloads with good spatial locality.  This results in a higher
probability of vmas being cached in the first ...
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