mm/rmap.c: reuse mergeable anon_vma as parent when fork
In __anon_vma_prepare(), we will try to find anon_vma if it is possible to reuse it. While on fork, the logic is different. Since commit 5beb4930 ("mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue"), function anon_vma_clone() tries to allocate new anon_vma for child process. But the logic here will allocate a new anon_vma for each vma, even in parent this vma is mergeable and share the same anon_vma with its sibling. This may do better for scalability issue, while it is not necessary to do so especially after interval tree is used. Commit 7a3ef208 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy") tries to reuse some anon_vma by counting child anon_vma and attached vmas. While for those mergeable anon_vmas, we can just reuse it and not necessary to go through the logic. After this change, kernel build test reduces 20% anon_vma allocation. Do the same kernel build test, it shows run time in sys reduced 11.6%. Origin: real 2m50.467s user 17m52.002s sys 1m51.953s real 2m48.662s user 17m55.464s sys 1m50.553s real 2m51.143s user 17m59.687s sys 1m53.600s Patched: real 2m39.933s user 17m1.835s sys 1m38.802s real 2m39.321s user 17m1.634s sys 1m39.206s real 2m39.575s user 17m1.420s sys 1m38.845s Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011072256.16275-2-richardw.yang@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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