[RFC] mm: Optimise put_pages_list()

From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Date: Thu Sep 30 2021 - 12:34:32 EST


Instead of calling put_page() one page at a time, pop pages off
the list if there are other refcounts and pass the remainder
to free_unref_page_list(). This should be a speed improvement,
but I have no measurements to support that. It's also not very
widely used today, so I can't say I've really tested it. I'm only
bothering with this patch because I'd like the IOMMU code to use it
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210930162043.3111119-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swap.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
index af3cad4e5378..f6b38398fa6f 100644
--- a/mm/swap.c
+++ b/mm/swap.c
@@ -139,13 +139,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__put_page);
*/
void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pages)
{
- while (!list_empty(pages)) {
- struct page *victim;
+ struct page *page, *next;

- victim = lru_to_page(pages);
- list_del(&victim->lru);
- put_page(victim);
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, pages, lru) {
+ if (!put_page_testzero(page))
+ list_del(&page->lru);
}
+
+ free_unref_page_list(pages);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_pages_list);

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2.32.0