From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V5 06/25] powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:12:06 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130411011206.GK8165@truffula.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r4iiom8a.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 01:23:25PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:59:29AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >> David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> writes:
> >> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:27:44AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
[snip]
> >> > You should really move PTE_FRAG_NR to a header so you can actually use
> >> > it here rather than hard coding 16.
> >> >
> >> > It took me a fair while to convince myself that there is no race here
> >> > with something altering mapcount and count between the atomic_read()
> >> > and the atomic_sub_return(). It could do with a comment to explain
> >> > why that is safe.
> >> >
> >> > Re-using the mapcount field for your index also seems odd, and it took
> >> > me a while to convince myself that that's safe too. Wouldn't it be
> >> > simpler to store a pointer to the next sub-page in the mm_context
> >> > instead? You can get from that to the struct page easily enough with a
> >> > shift and pfn_to_page().
> >>
> >> I found using _mapcount simpler in this case. I was looking at it not
> >> as an index, but rather how may fragments are mapped/used already.
> >
> > Except that it's actually (#fragments - 1). Using subpage pointer
> > makes the fragments calculation (very slightly) harder, but the
> > calculation of the table address easier. More importantly it avoids
> > adding effectively an extra variable - which is then shoehorned into a
> > structure not really designed to hold it.
>
> Even with subpage pointer we would need mm->context.pgtable_page or
> something similar. We don't add any other extra variable right ?. Let me
> try what you are suggesting here and see if that make it simpler.
No, because the struct page * can be easily derived from the subpage
pointer.
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-04 5:57 [PATCH -V5 00/25] THP support for PPC64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 01/25] powerpc: Use signed formatting when printing error Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 02/25] powerpc: Save DAR and DSISR in pt_regs on MCE Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 03/25] powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 04/25] powerpc: Reduce the PTE_INDEX_SIZE Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 7:10 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 05/25] powerpc: Move the pte free routines from common header Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 06/25] powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-10 4:46 ` David Gibson
2013-04-10 6:29 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-10 7:04 ` David Gibson
2013-04-10 7:53 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-10 17:47 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 1:20 ` David Gibson
2013-04-11 1:12 ` David Gibson [this message]
2013-04-10 7:14 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-04-10 7:54 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-10 8:52 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 07/25] powerpc: Use encode avpn where we need only avpn values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 08/25] powerpc: Decode the pte-lp-encoding bits correctly Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-10 7:19 ` David Gibson
2013-04-10 8:11 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-10 17:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 1:28 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 09/25] powerpc: Fix hpte_decode to use the correct decoding for page sizes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 3:20 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 10/25] powerpc: print both base and actual page size on hash failure Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 3:21 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 11/25] powerpc: Print page size info during boot Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 12/25] powerpc: Return all the valid pte ecndoing in KVM_PPC_GET_SMMU_INFO ioctl Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 3:24 ` David Gibson
2013-04-11 5:11 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 5:57 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 13/25] powerpc: Update tlbie/tlbiel as per ISA doc Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 3:30 ` David Gibson
2013-04-11 5:20 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 6:16 ` David Gibson
2013-04-11 6:36 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 14/25] mm/THP: HPAGE_SHIFT is not a #define on some arch Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 3:36 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 15/25] mm/THP: Add pmd args to pgtable deposit and withdraw APIs Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 3:40 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 16/25] mm/THP: withdraw the pgtable after pmdp related operations Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 17/25] powerpc/THP: Implement transparent hugepages for ppc64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 5:38 ` David Gibson
2013-04-11 7:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-12 0:51 ` David Gibson
2013-04-12 5:06 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-12 5:39 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 18/25] powerpc/THP: Double the PMD table size for THP Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-11 6:18 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 19/25] powerpc/THP: Differentiate THP PMD entries from HUGETLB PMD entries Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-10 7:21 ` Michael Ellerman
2013-04-10 18:26 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-12 1:28 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 20/25] powerpc/THP: Add code to handle HPTE faults for large pages Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-12 4:01 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:57 ` [PATCH -V5 21/25] powerpc: Handle hugepage in perf callchain Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-12 1:34 ` David Gibson
2013-04-12 5:05 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:58 ` [PATCH -V5 22/25] powerpc/THP: get_user_pages_fast changes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-12 1:41 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:58 ` [PATCH -V5 23/25] powerpc/THP: Enable THP on PPC64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 5:58 ` [PATCH -V5 24/25] powerpc: Optimize hugepage invalidate Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-12 4:21 ` David Gibson
2013-04-14 10:02 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-15 1:18 ` David Gibson
2013-04-04 5:58 ` [PATCH -V5 25/25] powerpc: Handle hugepages in kvm Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 6:00 ` [PATCH -V5 00/25] THP support for PPC64 Simon Jeons
2013-04-04 6:10 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-04 6:14 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-04 8:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-19 1:55 ` Simon Jeons
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