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Currently we remove pages from the radix tree one by one. To speed up page cache truncation, lock several pages at once and free them in one go. This allows us to batch radix tree operations in a more efficient way and also save round-trips on mapping->tree_lock. As a result we gain about 20% speed improvement in page cache truncation. Data from a simple benchmark timing 10000 truncates of 1024 pages (on ext4 on ramdisk but the filesystem is barely visible in the profiles). The range shows 1% and 95% percentiles of the measured times: 4.14-rc2 4.14-rc2 + batched truncation 248-256 209-219 249-258 209-217 248-255 211-239 248-255 209-217 247-256 210-218 [jack@suse.cz: convert delete_from_page_cache_batch() to pagevec] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018111648.13714-1-jack@suse.cz [akpm@linux-foundation.org: move struct pagevec forward declaration to top-of-file] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010151937.26984-8-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.