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 13x improvement in performance on x86. (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 x86. All times are in nanoseconds.
Control HAVE_MOVE_PUD
180394 15089 235728 14056 238931 25741 187330 13838 241742 14187 177925 14778 182758 14728 160872 14418 205813 15107 245722 13998
205721.5 15594 <-- Mean time in nanoseconds
A 1GB mremap completion time drops from ~205 microseconds to ~15 microseconds on x86. (~13x speed up).
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh kaleshsingh@google.com --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 7101ac64bb20..ff6e2755cab8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC select HAVE_MOVE_PMD + select HAVE_MOVE_PUD select HAVE_NMI select HAVE_OPROFILE select HAVE_OPTPROBES