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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 29.08.25 03:55, Baolin Wang wrote: > > > On 2025/8/28 18:48, Dev Jain wrote: >> >> On 28/08/25 3:16 pm, Baolin Wang wrote: >>> (Sorry for chiming in late) >>> >>> On 2025/8/22 22:10, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>>>> Once could also easily support the value 255 (HPAGE_PMD_NR / 2- 1), >>>>>> but not sure >>>>>> if we have to add that for now. >>>>> >>>>> Yeah not so sure about this, this is a 'just have to know' too, and >>>>> yes you >>>>> might add it to the docs, but people are going to be mightily >>>>> confused, esp if >>>>> it's a calculated value. >>>>> >>>>> I don't see any other way around having a separate tunable if we >>>>> don't just have >>>>> something VERY simple like on/off. >>>> >>>> Yeah, not advocating that we add support for other values than 0/511, >>>> really. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Also the mentioned issue sounds like something that needs to be >>>>> fixed elsewhere >>>>> honestly in the algorithm used to figure out mTHP ranges (I may be >>>>> wrong - and >>>>> happy to stand corrected if this is somehow inherent, but reallly >>>>> feels that >>>>> way). >>>> >>>> I think the creep is unavoidable for certain values. >>>> >>>> If you have the first two pages of a PMD area populated, and you >>>> allow for at least half of the #PTEs to be non/zero, you'd collapse >>>> first a >>>> order-2 folio, then and order-3 ... until you reached PMD order. >>>> >>>> So for now we really should just support 0 / 511 to say "don't >>>> collapse if there are holes" vs. "always collapse if there is at >>>> least one pte used". >>> >>> If we only allow setting 0 or 511, as Nico mentioned before, "At 511, >>> no mTHP collapses would ever occur anyway, unless you have 2MB >>> disabled and other mTHP sizes enabled. Technically, at 511, only the >>> highest enabled order would ever be collapsed." >> I didn't understand this statement. At 511, mTHP collapses will occur if >> khugepaged cannot get a PMD folio. Our goal is to collapse to the >> highest order folio. > > Yes, I’m not saying that it’s incorrect behavior when set to 511. What I > mean is, as in the example I gave below, users may only want to allow a > large order collapse when the number of present PTEs reaches half of the > large folio, in order to avoid RSS bloat. How do these users control allocation at fault time where this parameter is completely ignored? -- Cheers David / dhildenb