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mm: fix madvise WILLNEED performance problem
authorMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Sun, 22 Nov 2020 06:17:22 +0000 (22:17 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:48:22 +0000 (10:48 -0800)
commitef1424ad4aadffb32127e96d2caa12e39d63104e
tree8172ec6d41fcdbd0af75ce75135f793b52ce5125
parent2505c34e965a30203a96f4b7ce024b75a958e2b9
mm: fix madvise WILLNEED performance problem

The calculation of the end page index was incorrect, leading to a
regression of 70% when running stress-ng.

With this fix, we instead see a performance improvement of 3%.

Fixes: 4844bd994843 ("mm: optimise madvise WILLNEED")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Xing Zhengjun <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201109134851.29692-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/madvise.c