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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] page count lock for simpler put_page
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:56:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110813235611.GA16581@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110813015741.GZ2395@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 06:57:41PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> But if we are getting much below 100 milliseconds, we need to rethink
> this.

The delay may be low in some corner case but this still benefits by
running it only once. You can mmap() bzero, mremap(+4096) (if mremap
moves the pages to a not aligned 2m address, it forces a
split_huge_page, an hardware issue) and all pages will be splitted in
potentially less than 100msec if they're only a few. At least we'll be
running synchronize_rcu only once instead of for every hugepage, as
long as it runs only once I guess we're ok. Normally it shouldn't
happen so fast. My current /proc/vmstat says there are 271 splits for
97251 THP allocated and they're not so likely to have happened within
100msec.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-13 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-04 21:07 [RFC PATCH 0/3] page count lock for simpler put_page Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-04 21:07 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm: Replace naked page->_count accesses with accessor functions Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-04 21:07 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] mm: page count lock Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-07 14:00   ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-04 21:07 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm: get_first_page_unless_zero() Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-07 14:13   ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-05  6:39 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] page count lock for simpler put_page Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-07 14:25   ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-09 11:04     ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-09 22:22       ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-12 22:35         ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-13  4:07           ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-12 15:36       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-12 16:08         ` SPAM: " Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-12 16:43           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-12 17:27             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-12 23:45               ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-13  1:57                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-13 23:56                   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2011-08-13  4:18             ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-12 16:57           ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-12 17:08             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-12 17:52               ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-12 18:13                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-12 19:05                   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-12 22:14                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-12 22:22                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-08-12 18:03               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-12 17:41             ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-08-12 17:56               ` Johannes Weiner
2011-08-12 23:02           ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-12 22:50         ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-08-13  4:11         ` Minchan Kim
2011-08-12 16:58   ` Andrea Arcangeli

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