Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1] mm: add a total mapcount for large folios

Ryan Roberts
2023-08-10T19:03:03Z

On 10/08/2023 18:47, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 10.08.23 19:15, Peter Xu wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 11:48:27AM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>>>> For PTE-mapped THP, it might be a bit bigger noise, although I doubt it is
>>>> really significant (judging from my experience on managing PageAnonExclusive
>>>> using set_bit/test_bit/clear_bit when (un)mapping anon pages).
>>>>
>>>> As folio_add_file_rmap_range() indicates, for PTE-mapped THPs we should be
>>>> batching where possible (and Ryan is working on some more rmap batching).
>>>
>>> Yes, I've just posted [1] which batches the rmap removal. That would allow you
>>> to convert the per-page atomic_dec() into a (usually) single per-large-folio
>>> atomic_sub().
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230810103332.3062143-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/
>>
>> Right, that'll definitely make more sense, thanks for the link; I'd be very
>> happy to read more later (finally I got some free time recently..).  But
>> then does it mean David's patch can be attached at the end instead of
>> proposed separately and early?
>
> Not in my opinion. Batching rmap makes sense even without this change, and this
> change makes sense even without batching.

FWIW, I agree that my series and David's series should be treated independently.
There is independent value in both.

It's also worth pointing out that with my series, the amount of batching you see
in practice still depends on large folios being mapped, which isn't quite the
common case yet.