dm crypt: allocate compound pages if possible

It was reported that allocating pages for the write buffer in dm-crypt
causes measurable overhead [1].

Change dm-crypt to allocate compound pages if they are available. If
not, fall back to the mempool.

[1] https://listman.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2023-February/053284.html

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Mikulas Patocka 2023-05-01 09:19:17 -04:00 committed by Mike Snitzer
parent 245165658e
commit 5054e778fc

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@ -1661,6 +1661,9 @@ static void crypt_free_buffer_pages(struct crypt_config *cc, struct bio *clone);
* In order to not degrade performance with excessive locking, we try
* non-blocking allocations without a mutex first but on failure we fallback
* to blocking allocations with a mutex.
*
* In order to reduce allocation overhead, we try to allocate compound pages in
* the first pass. If they are not available, we fall back to the mempool.
*/
static struct bio *crypt_alloc_buffer(struct dm_crypt_io *io, unsigned int size)
{
@ -1668,8 +1671,8 @@ static struct bio *crypt_alloc_buffer(struct dm_crypt_io *io, unsigned int size)
struct bio *clone;
unsigned int nr_iovecs = (size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_HIGHMEM;
unsigned int i, len, remaining_size;
struct page *page;
unsigned int remaining_size;
unsigned int order = MAX_ORDER - 1;
retry:
if (unlikely(gfp_mask & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM))
@ -1682,19 +1685,34 @@ retry:
remaining_size = size;
for (i = 0; i < nr_iovecs; i++) {
page = mempool_alloc(&cc->page_pool, gfp_mask);
if (!page) {
while (remaining_size) {
struct page *pages;
unsigned size_to_add;
unsigned remaining_order = __fls((remaining_size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
order = min(order, remaining_order);
while (order > 0) {
pages = alloc_pages(gfp_mask
| __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_COMP,
order);
if (likely(pages != NULL))
goto have_pages;
order--;
}
pages = mempool_alloc(&cc->page_pool, gfp_mask);
if (!pages) {
crypt_free_buffer_pages(cc, clone);
bio_put(clone);
gfp_mask |= __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM;
order = 0;
goto retry;
}
len = (remaining_size > PAGE_SIZE) ? PAGE_SIZE : remaining_size;
__bio_add_page(clone, page, len, 0);
remaining_size -= len;
have_pages:
size_to_add = min((unsigned)PAGE_SIZE << order, remaining_size);
__bio_add_page(clone, pages, size_to_add, 0);
remaining_size -= size_to_add;
}
/* Allocate space for integrity tags */
@ -1712,12 +1730,15 @@ retry:
static void crypt_free_buffer_pages(struct crypt_config *cc, struct bio *clone)
{
struct bio_vec *bv;
struct bvec_iter_all iter_all;
struct folio_iter fi;
bio_for_each_segment_all(bv, clone, iter_all) {
BUG_ON(!bv->bv_page);
mempool_free(bv->bv_page, &cc->page_pool);
if (clone->bi_vcnt > 0) { /* bio_for_each_folio_all crashes with an empty bio */
bio_for_each_folio_all(fi, clone) {
if (folio_test_large(fi.folio))
folio_put(fi.folio);
else
mempool_free(&fi.folio->page, &cc->page_pool);
}
}
}