[PATCH v2 5/6] arm64: mremap speedup - Enable HAVE_MOVE_PUD

From: Kalesh Singh
Date: Fri Oct 02 2020 - 12:22:31 EST


HAVE_MOVE_PUD enables remapping pages at the PUD level if both the
source and destination addresses are PUD-aligned.

With HAVE_MOVE_PUD enabled it can be inferred that there is approximately
a 19x improvement in performance on arm64. (See data below).

------- Test Results ---------

The following results were obtained using a 5.4 kernel, by remapping
a PUD-aligned, 1GB sized region to a PUD-aligned destination.
The results from 10 iterations of the test are given below:

Total mremap times for 1GB data on arm64. All times are in nanoseconds.

Control HAVE_MOVE_PUD

1247761 74271
1219896 46771
1094792 59687
1227760 48385
1043698 76666
1101771 50365
1159896 52500
1143594 75261
1025833 61354
1078125 48697

1134312.6 59395.7 <-- Mean time in nanoseconds

A 1GB mremap completion time drops from ~1.1 milliseconds
to ~59 microseconds on arm64. (~19x speed up).

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 844d089668e3..4d521f0a5863 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ config ARM64
select HANDLE_DOMAIN_IRQ
select HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND
select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
+ select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
select HAVE_PCI
select HAVE_ACPI_APEI if (ACPI && EFI)
select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB
--
2.28.0.806.g8561365e88-goog