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mm: unrig VMA cache hit ratio
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Current code doesn't count first FIND operation after VMA cache flush
(which happen surprisingly often) artificially increasing cache hit ratio.

On my regular setup the difference is:

		Before				After
	==========================================================

	* boot, login into KDE

	vmacache_find_calls 446216	vmacache_find_calls 492741
	vmacache_find_hits 277596	vmacache_find_hits 276096

		~62.2%				~56.0%

	* rebuild kernel (no changes to code, usual config)

	vmacache_find_calls 1943007	vmacache_find_calls 2083718
	vmacache_find_hits 1246123	vmacache_find_hits 1244146

		~64.1%				~59.7%

	* rebuild kernel (full rebuild, usual config)

	vmacache_find_calls 32163155	vmacache_find_calls 33677183
	vmacache_find_hits 27889956	vmacache_find_hits 27877591

		~88.2%				~84.3%

Total: ~4% cache hit ratio.

If someone is counting _relative_ cache _miss_ ratio, misreporting is much
higher.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160822225009.GA3934@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored and sfrothwell committed Sep 3, 2016
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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions mm/vmacache.c
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Expand Up @@ -87,11 +87,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
{
int i;

count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS);

if (!vmacache_valid(mm))
return NULL;

count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS);

for (i = 0; i < VMACACHE_SIZE; i++) {
struct vm_area_struct *vma = current->vmacache[i];

Expand All @@ -115,11 +115,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vmacache_find_exact(struct mm_struct *mm,
{
int i;

count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS);

if (!vmacache_valid(mm))
return NULL;

count_vm_vmacache_event(VMACACHE_FIND_CALLS);

for (i = 0; i < VMACACHE_SIZE; i++) {
struct vm_area_struct *vma = current->vmacache[i];

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