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When I tested the mincore() syscall, I observed that it takes longer with 64K mTHP enabled on my Arm64 server. The reason is the mincore_pte_range() still checks each PTE individually, even when the PTEs are contiguous, which is not efficient. Thus we can use pte_batch_hint() to get the batch number of the present contiguous PTEs, which can improve the performance. I tested the mincore() syscall with 1G anonymous memory populated with 64K mTHP, and observed an obvious performance improvement: w/o patch w/ patch changes 6022us 549us +91% Moreover, I also tested mincore() with disabling mTHP/THP, and did not see any obvious regression for base pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/99cb00ee626ceb6e788102ca36821815cd832237.1746697240.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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