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    mm/vmscan: avoid split lazyfree THP during shrink_folio_list() · 735ecdfa
    Lance Yang authored
    When the user no longer requires the pages, they would use
    madvise(MADV_FREE) to mark the pages as lazy free.  Subsequently, they
    typically would not re-write to that memory again.
    
    During memory reclaim, if we detect that the large folio and its PMD are
    both still marked as clean and there are no unexpected references (such as
    GUP), so we can just discard the memory lazily, improving the efficiency
    of memory reclamation in this case.
    
    On an Intel i5 CPU, reclaiming 1GiB of lazyfree THPs using
    mem_cgroup_force_empty() results in the following runtimes in seconds
    (shorter is better):
    
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    |     Old       |      New       |  Change  |
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    |   0.683426    |    0.049197    |  -92.80% |
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    [ioworker0@gmail.com: minor changes per David]
      Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240622100057.3352-1-ioworker0@gmail.com
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240614015138.31461-4-ioworker0@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarLance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: Bang Li <libang.li@antgroup.com>
    Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
    Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
    Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
    Cc: Jeff Xie <xiehuan09@gmail.com>
    Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
    Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
    Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
    Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
    Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>
    Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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