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SubjectRe: [REGRESSION]: mmap performance regression starting with k-6.1
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 08:03:19PM +0000, Chun Ng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I observed there is performance regression on system call mmap(..). I tried both vanilla kernels and Raspberry Pi kernels on a Raspberry Pi 4 box and the results are pretty consistent among them.
>
> Bisection showed that the regression starts from k-6.1, and the latest vanilla k-6.7 is still showing the same regression.
>
> The test program calls mmap/munmap for a 4K page with MAP_ANON and MAP_PRIVATE flags, and ftrace is used to measure the time spent on the do_mmap(..) call.  Measured time of a sample run with different vanilla kernel versions are:
> k-5.10 and k-6.0: ~157us
> k-6.1: ~194us
> k-6.7: ~214us
> Results are pretty consistent across multiple runs with a small percentage variance.  Ftrace shows that latency of mmap_region(...) has increased since k-6.1.  An application that makes frequent mmap(..) calls the accumulated extra latency is very noticeable.

Did you mean that v6.0 doesn't have this regression?

Confused...

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