From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>, Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>,
Ning Qu <quning@google.com>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 00/22] Transparent huge page cache: phase 1, everything but mmap()
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:02:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130930100249.GB2425@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130924163740.4bc7db61e3e520798220dc4c@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:37:40PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:05:28 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> > It brings thp support for ramfs, but without mmap() -- it will be posted
> > separately.
>
> We were never going to do this :(
>
> Has anyone reviewed these patches much yet?
>
I am afraid I never looked too closely once I learned that the primary
motivation for this was relieving iTLB pressure in a very specific
case. AFAIK, this is not a problem in the vast majority of modern CPUs
and I found it very hard to be motivated to review the series as a result.
I suspected that in many cases that the cost of IO would continue to dominate
performance instead of TLB pressure. I also found it unlikely that there
was a workload that was tmpfs based that used enough memory to be hurt
by TLB pressure. My feedback was that a much more compelling case for the
series was needed but this discussion all happened on IRC unfortunately.
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Mel Gorman
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-23 12:05 [PATCHv6 00/22] Transparent huge page cache: phase 1, everything but mmap() Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 01/22] mm: implement zero_huge_user_segment and friends Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 02/22] radix-tree: implement preload for multiple contiguous elements Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 03/22] memcg, thp: charge huge cache pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 04/22] thp: compile-time and sysfs knob for thp pagecache Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 05/22] thp, mm: introduce mapping_can_have_hugepages() predicate Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 06/22] thp: represent file thp pages in meminfo and friends Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 07/22] thp, mm: rewrite add_to_page_cache_locked() to support huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 08/22] mm: trace filemap: dump page order Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 09/22] block: implement add_bdi_stat() Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 10/22] thp, mm: rewrite delete_from_page_cache() to support huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-25 20:02 ` Ning Qu
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 11/22] thp, mm: warn if we try to use replace_page_cache_page() with THP Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 12/22] thp, mm: add event counters for huge page alloc on file write or read Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 13/22] mm, vfs: introduce i_split_sem Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 14/22] thp, mm: allocate huge pages in grab_cache_page_write_begin() Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 15/22] thp, mm: naive support of thp in generic_perform_write Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 16/22] thp, mm: handle transhuge pages in do_generic_file_read() Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 17/22] thp, libfs: initial thp support Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 18/22] truncate: support huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 19/22] thp: handle file pages in split_huge_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 20/22] thp: wait_split_huge_page(): serialize over i_mmap_mutex too Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 21/22] thp, mm: split huge page on mmap file page Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 22/22] ramfs: enable transparent huge page cache Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-24 23:37 ` [PATCHv6 00/22] Transparent huge page cache: phase 1, everything but mmap() Andrew Morton
2013-09-24 23:48 ` Ning Qu
2013-09-24 23:49 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-24 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2013-09-25 11:15 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-25 15:05 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-26 18:30 ` Zach Brown
2013-09-26 19:05 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 10:13 ` Mel Gorman
2013-09-30 16:05 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-25 9:51 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-25 23:29 ` Dave Chinner
2013-10-14 13:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-30 10:02 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2013-09-30 10:10 ` Mel Gorman
2013-09-30 18:07 ` Ning Qu
2013-09-30 18:51 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-01 8:38 ` Mel Gorman
2013-10-01 17:11 ` Ning Qu
2013-10-14 14:27 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-30 15:27 ` Dave Hansen
2013-09-30 18:05 ` Ning Qu
2013-09-25 0:12 ` Ning Qu
2013-09-25 9:23 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-26 21:13 ` Dave Hansen
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2013-09-25 18:11 Ning Qu
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