The worst-case scenario on finding same element pages is that almost all elements are same at the first glance but only last few elements are different.
Since the same element tends to be grouped from the beginning of the
pages, if we check the first element with the last element before
looping through all elements, we might have some chances to quickly
detect non-same element pages.
1. Test is done under LG webOS TV (64-bit arch)
2. Dump the swap-out pages (~819200 pages)
3. Analyze the pages with simple test script which counts the iteration
number and measures the speed at off-line
Under 64-bit arch, the worst iteration count is PAGE_SIZE / 8 bytes =
512. The speed is based on the time to consume page_same_filled()
function only. The result, on average, is listed as below:
Num of Iter Speed(MB/s)
Looping-Forward (Orig) 38 99265
Looping-Backward 36 102725
Last-element-check (This Patch) 33 125072
The result shows that the average iteration count decreases by 13% and
the speed increases by 25% with this patch. This patch does not
increase the overall time complexity, though.
I also ran simpler version which uses backward loop. Just looping
backward also makes some improvement, but less than this patch.
[taejoon.song@lge.com: fix off-by-one]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1578642001-11765-1-git-send-email-taejoon.song@lge.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1575424418-16119-1-git-send-email-taejoon.song@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Taejoon Song <taejoon.song@lge.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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