migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB

The TLB flushing will cost quite some CPU cycles during the folio
migration in some situations.  For example, when migrate a folio of a
process with multiple active threads that run on multiple CPUs.  After
batching the _unmap and _move in migrate_pages(), the TLB flushing can be
batched easily with the existing TLB flush batching mechanism.  This patch
implements that.

We use the following test case to test the patch.

On a 2-socket Intel server,

- Run pmbench memory accessing benchmark

- Run `migratepages` to migrate pages of pmbench between node 0 and
  node 1 back and forth.

With the patch, the TLB flushing IPI reduces 99.1% during the test and the
number of pages migrated successfully per second increases 291.7%.

Haoxin helped to test the patchset on an ARM64 server with 128 cores, 2
NUMA nodes.  Test results show that the page migration performance
increases up to 78%.

NOTE: TLB flushing is batched only for normal folios, not for THP folios. 
Because the overhead of TLB flushing for THP folios is much lower than
that for normal folios (about 1/512 on x86 platform).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230213123444.155149-9-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Xin Hao <xhao@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@amd.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 00713ccb6643e..2fa420e4f68c5 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ static int migrate_folio_unmap(new_page_t get_new_page, free_page_t put_new_page
 		/* Establish migration ptes */
 		VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_anon(src) &&
 			       !folio_test_ksm(src) && !anon_vma, src);
-		try_to_migrate(src, 0);
+		try_to_migrate(src, TTU_BATCH_FLUSH);
 		page_was_mapped = 1;
 	}
 
@@ -1806,6 +1806,9 @@ retry:
 	stats->nr_thp_failed += thp_retry;
 	stats->nr_failed_pages += nr_retry_pages;
 move:
+	/* Flush TLBs for all unmapped folios */
+	try_to_unmap_flush();
+
 	retry = 1;
 	for (pass = 0;
 	     pass < NR_MAX_MIGRATE_PAGES_RETRY && (retry || large_retry);