android_kernel_google_msm/mm
Hugh Dickins a5cea413d2 tmpfs: optimize clearing when writing
Nick proposed years ago that tmpfs should avoid clearing its pages where
write will overwrite them with new data, as ramfs has long done.  But I
messed it up and just got bad data.  Tried again recently, it works
fine.

Here's time output for writing 4GiB 16 times on this Core i5 laptop:

before: real	0m21.169s user	0m0.028s sys	0m21.057s
        real	0m21.382s user	0m0.016s sys	0m21.289s
        real	0m21.311s user	0m0.020s sys	0m21.217s

after:  real	0m18.273s user	0m0.032s sys	0m18.165s
        real	0m18.354s user	0m0.020s sys	0m18.265s
        real	0m18.440s user	0m0.032s sys	0m18.337s

ramfs:  real	0m16.860s user	0m0.028s sys	0m16.765s
        real	0m17.382s user	0m0.040s sys	0m17.273s
        real	0m17.133s user	0m0.044s sys	0m17.021s

Yes, I have done perf reports, but they need more explanation than they
deserve: in summary, clear_page vanishes, its cache loading shifts into
copy_user_generic_unrolled; shmem_getpage_gfp goes down, and
surprisingly mark_page_accessed goes way up - I think because they are
respectively where the cache gets to be reloaded after being purged by
clear or copy.

Change-Id: I3f32de9543820c0c827e7e89b3481e4fe6670dff
Suggested-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-07 20:57:23 +03:00
..
backing-dev.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
bootmem.c mm: sparse: fix usemap allocation above node descriptor section 2016-10-29 23:12:12 +08:00
bounce.c
cleancache.c
compaction.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c mm: kill vma flag VM_CAN_NONLINEAR 2020-11-29 16:11:40 +03:00
filemap_xip.c mm: kill vma flag VM_CAN_NONLINEAR 2020-11-29 16:11:40 +03:00
fremap.c mm: kill vma flag VM_CAN_NONLINEAR 2020-11-29 16:11:40 +03:00
highmem.c mm: highmem: don't treat PKMAP_ADDR(LAST_PKMAP) as a highmem address 2014-06-11 12:04:22 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm, thp: fix collapsing of hugepages on madvise 2015-02-02 17:05:07 +08:00
hugetlb.c Fix incomplete backport of commit 0f792cf949a0 2016-10-26 23:15:44 +08:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
Kconfig BACKPORT: mm/zsmalloc: add statistics support 2018-01-01 21:27:09 +03:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: kmemleak: allow safe memory scanning during kmemleak disabling 2015-10-22 09:20:06 +08:00
ksm.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile BACKPORT: mm/zpool: implement common zpool api to zbud/zsmalloc 2018-01-01 21:27:00 +03:00
memblock.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
memcontrol.c shmem: replace page if mapping excludes its zone 2020-12-07 20:57:06 +03:00
memory-failure.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
memory.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
memory_hotplug.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
mempolicy.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
mempool.c
migrate.c BACKPORT: Sanitize 'move_pages()' permission checks 2018-01-13 17:13:40 +03:00
mincore.c swap: make each swap partition have one address_space 2018-01-01 22:02:05 +03:00
mlock.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c mm: kill vma flag VM_CAN_NONLINEAR 2020-11-29 16:11:40 +03:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c mm: kill vma flag VM_CAN_NONLINEAR 2020-11-29 16:11:40 +03:00
oom_kill.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
page-writeback.c mm: fix calculation of dirtyable memory 2016-10-29 23:12:16 +08:00
page_alloc.c mm/page_alloc.c: use '__paginginit' instead of '__init' 2017-12-27 17:13:39 +03:00
page_cgroup.c cgroup/kmemleak: add kmemleak_free() for cgroup deallocations. 2015-02-02 17:05:07 +08:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c percpu: perform tlb flush after pcpu_map_pages() failure 2014-12-01 18:02:23 +08:00
percpu.c Revert "percpu: free percpu allocation info for uniprocessor system" 2015-02-02 17:04:38 +08:00
pgtable-generic.c
prio_tree.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: change initial readahead window size calculation 2016-10-29 23:12:18 +08:00
rmap.c mm: fix anon_vma->degree underflow in anon_vma endless growing prevention 2015-04-14 17:34:04 +08:00
shmem.c tmpfs: optimize clearing when writing 2020-12-07 20:57:23 +03:00
slab.c cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags 2014-12-01 18:02:38 +08:00
slob.c
slub.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
swap.c swap: make each swap partition have one address_space 2018-01-01 22:02:05 +03:00
swap_state.c swap: make each swap partition have one address_space 2018-01-01 22:02:05 +03:00
swapfile.c vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointer 2018-12-07 22:28:48 +04:00
thrash.c
truncate.c Revert "shmem: fix faulting into a hole while it's punched" 2020-12-07 20:52:57 +03:00
util.c swap: make each swap partition have one address_space 2018-01-01 22:02:05 +03:00
vmalloc.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
vmscan.c mm: new shrinker API 2020-11-29 16:11:30 +03:00
vmstat.c Merge remote-tracking branch 'stable/linux-3.4.y' into lineage-15.1 2017-12-27 17:13:15 +03:00
zpool.c BACKPORT: mm/zpool: add name argument to create zpool 2018-01-01 21:27:09 +03:00
zsmalloc.c UPSTREAM: zsmalloc: fix a null pointer dereference in destroy_handle_cache() 2018-01-01 21:27:14 +03:00