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From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>,
	mike.kravetz@oracle.com, songmuchun@bytedance.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	will@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: kill set_huge_swap_pte_at()
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:17:32 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <397f73f7-14d6-ee0c-af42-39e193df030c@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yrm/+UoOtDY7G5bi@casper.infradead.org>



On 6/27/22 20:04, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 01:05:00PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>> For the swap entry of hugetlb, we need to remember that we should
>>> call set_huge_swap_pte_at() instead of set_huge_pte_at() every
>>
>> Which is intuitive, so what is the problem ?
> 
> The problem is that HugeTLB is DIFFERENT from the rest of the VM.

Agreed.

> This has a huge cost in programmer time, which is infinitely more
> valuable than the cycle shaving you're quibbling over.  We should take
> any and every opportunity to make huge pages work the same way as THP
> and order-0 pages.

Got it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-28  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-26 14:57 [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: kill set_huge_swap_pte_at() Qi Zheng
2022-06-27  3:32 ` Muchun Song
2022-06-27  6:18 ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-06-27  6:55   ` Qi Zheng
2022-06-27  7:14     ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-06-27  7:29       ` Qi Zheng
2022-06-27  7:35         ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-06-27 14:34           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-06-28  5:47             ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2022-06-27  7:44       ` Muchun Song
2022-06-27  8:27         ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-06-27 14:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-06-28  3:34   ` Qi Zheng
2023-09-21 16:25 ` Ryan Roberts

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