From 97ae89aa9f634b6cbf2560ffad47a93eda2bde4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SJ Park Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:17:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/damon/core: reduce range setup in damon_commit_target_regions() damon_commit_target_regions() calls damon_set_regions() for updating the destination target's monitoring target region boundaries. It sets the boundaries same to source target's monitoring regions, even if they are adjacent. Meanwhile, damon_set_region() sets the destination target regions exactly the same to the source, only when the target regions are empty. When there are existing target regions, only a few regions are expanded or shrunk to fit on only the boundaries for disjoint regions in the source. Hence the adjacent source ranges mean nothing in common cases. When there are many regions, such adjacent range setup is only a waste of time and space. We recently found [1] it is actually causing memory overhead. Setup the ranges for only distinct ranges. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260630141726.92246-9-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260603112306.58490-1-akinobu.mita@gmail.com [1] Signed-off-by: SJ Park Cc: Brendan Higgins Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/damon/core.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/damon/core.c b/mm/damon/core.c index a99458c57851..dbff0e4c1c17 100644 --- a/mm/damon/core.c +++ b/mm/damon/core.c @@ -1360,21 +1360,33 @@ static struct damon_target *damon_nth_target(int n, struct damon_ctx *ctx) static int damon_commit_target_regions(struct damon_target *dst, struct damon_target *src, unsigned long src_min_region_sz) { - struct damon_region *src_region; + struct damon_region *src_region, *prev = NULL; struct damon_addr_range *ranges; int i = 0, err; - damon_for_each_region(src_region, src) - i++; + damon_for_each_region(src_region, src) { + if (!prev || prev->ar.end != src_region->ar.start) + i++; + prev = src_region; + } if (!i) return 0; ranges = kvmalloc_objs(*ranges, i, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN); if (!ranges) return -ENOMEM; + prev = NULL; i = 0; - damon_for_each_region(src_region, src) - ranges[i++] = src_region->ar; + damon_for_each_region(src_region, src) { + if (!prev) { + ranges[i].start = src_region->ar.start; + } else if (prev->ar.end != src_region->ar.start) { + ranges[i++].end = prev->ar.end; + ranges[i].start = src_region->ar.start; + } + prev = src_region; + } + ranges[i++].end = damon_last_region(src)->ar.end; err = damon_set_regions(dst, ranges, i, src_min_region_sz); kvfree(ranges); return err;