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[2/7] khugepaged: Do not stop collapse if less than half PTEs are referenced

Message ID 20200327170601.18563-3-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series thp/khugepaged improvements and CoW semantics | expand

Commit Message

Kirill A. Shutemov March 27, 2020, 5:05 p.m. UTC
__collapse_huge_page_swapin() check number of referenced PTE to decide
if the memory range is hot enough to justify swapin.

The problem is that it stops collapse altogether if there's not enough
refereced pages, not only swappingin.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 0db501f7a34c ("mm, thp: convert from optimistic swapin collapsing to conservative")
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Zi Yan March 27, 2020, 5:30 p.m. UTC | #1
On 27 Mar 2020, at 13:05, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> __collapse_huge_page_swapin() check number of referenced PTE to decide
> if the memory range is hot enough to justify swapin.
>
> The problem is that it stops collapse altogether if there's not enough
> refereced pages, not only swappingin.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Fixes: 0db501f7a34c ("mm, thp: convert from optimistic swapin collapsing to conservative")
> ---
>  mm/khugepaged.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 99bab7e4d05b..14d7afc90786 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -905,7 +905,8 @@ static bool __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  	/* we only decide to swapin, if there is enough young ptes */
>  	if (referenced < HPAGE_PMD_NR/2) {
>  		trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, swapped_in, referenced, 0);
> -		return false;
> +		/* Do not block collapse, only skip swapping in */
> +		return true;
>  	}
>  	vmf.pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
>  	for (; vmf.address < address + HPAGE_PMD_NR*PAGE_SIZE;
> -- 
> 2.26.0

Make sense.

Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

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Best Regards,
Yan Zi
Yang Shi March 27, 2020, 5:46 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:06 AM Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
>
> __collapse_huge_page_swapin() check number of referenced PTE to decide
> if the memory range is hot enough to justify swapin.
>
> The problem is that it stops collapse altogether if there's not enough
> refereced pages, not only swappingin.

s/refereced/referenced

>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Fixes: 0db501f7a34c ("mm, thp: convert from optimistic swapin collapsing to conservative")
> ---
>  mm/khugepaged.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index 99bab7e4d05b..14d7afc90786 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -905,7 +905,8 @@ static bool __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
>         /* we only decide to swapin, if there is enough young ptes */
>         if (referenced < HPAGE_PMD_NR/2) {
>                 trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, swapped_in, referenced, 0);
> -               return false;
> +               /* Do not block collapse, only skip swapping in */
> +               return true;
>         }
>         vmf.pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
>         for (; vmf.address < address + HPAGE_PMD_NR*PAGE_SIZE;
> --
> 2.26.0
>
>
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diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 99bab7e4d05b..14d7afc90786 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -905,7 +905,8 @@  static bool __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	/* we only decide to swapin, if there is enough young ptes */
 	if (referenced < HPAGE_PMD_NR/2) {
 		trace_mm_collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, swapped_in, referenced, 0);
-		return false;
+		/* Do not block collapse, only skip swapping in */
+		return true;
 	}
 	vmf.pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address);
 	for (; vmf.address < address + HPAGE_PMD_NR*PAGE_SIZE;