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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	David Nellans <dnellans@nvidia.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/30] mm: thp: use single linked list for THP page table page deposit.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:34:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200928193428.GB30994@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200928175428.4110504-4-zi.yan@sent.com>

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 01:54:01PM -0400, Zi Yan wrote:
>  		struct {	/* Page table pages */
> -			unsigned long _pt_pad_1;	/* compound_head */
> -			pgtable_t pmd_huge_pte; /* protected by page->ptl */
> +			struct llist_head deposit_head; /* pgtable deposit list head */
> +			struct llist_node deposit_node; /* pgtable deposit list node */

If you're going to use two pointers anyway, you might as well use a
list_head.  But I don't think you need to; you could either use a union
of these or you could use the page_address() of the page to store as
much information as you like!



  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-28 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-28 17:53 [RFC PATCH v2 00/30] 1GB PUD THP support on x86_64 Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:53 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/30] mm/pagewalk: use READ_ONCE when reading the PUD entry unlocked Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/30] mm: pagewalk: use READ_ONCE when reading the PMD " Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/30] mm: thp: use single linked list for THP page table page deposit Zi Yan
2020-09-28 19:34   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-09-28 20:34     ` Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/30] mm: add new helper functions to allocate one PMD page with 512 PTE pages Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/30] mm: thp: add page table deposit/withdraw functions for PUD THP Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/30] mm: change thp_order and thp_nr as we will have not just PMD THPs Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/30] mm: thp: add anonymous PUD THP page fault support without enabling it Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/30] mm: thp: add PUD THP support for copy_huge_pud Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/30] mm: thp: add PUD THP support to zap_huge_pud Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/30] fs: proc: add PUD THP kpageflag Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/30] mm: thp: handling PUD THP reference bit Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/30] mm: rmap: add mappped/unmapped page order to anonymous page rmap functions Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 13/30] mm: rmap: add map_order to page_remove_anon_compound_rmap Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 14/30] mm: thp: add PUD THP split_huge_pud_page() function Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 15/30] mm: thp: add PUD THP to deferred split list when PUD mapping is gone Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 16/30] mm: debug: adapt dump_page to PUD THP Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 17/30] mm: thp: PUD THP COW splits PUD page and falls back to PMD page Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 18/30] mm: thp: PUD THP follow_p*d_page() support Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 19/30] mm: stats: make smap stats understand PUD THPs Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 20/30] mm: page_vma_walk: teach it about PMD-mapped PUD THP Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 21/30] mm: thp: PUD THP support in try_to_unmap() Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 22/30] mm: thp: split PUD THPs at page reclaim Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 23/30] mm: support PUD THP pagemap support Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 24/30] mm: madvise: add page size options to MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 25/30] mm: vma: add VM_HUGEPAGE_PUD to vm_flags at bit 37 Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 26/30] mm: thp: add a global knob to enable/disable PUD THPs Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 27/30] mm: thp: make PUD THP size public Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 28/30] hugetlb: cma: move cma reserve function to cma.c Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 29/30] mm: thp: use cma reservation for pud thp allocation Zi Yan
2020-09-28 17:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 30/30] mm: thp: enable anonymous PUD THP at page fault path Zi Yan
2020-09-30 11:55 ` [RFC PATCH v2 00/30] 1GB PUD THP support on x86_64 Michal Hocko
2020-10-01 15:14   ` Zi Yan
2020-10-02  7:32     ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-02  7:50       ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-02  8:10         ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-02  8:30           ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-05 15:03             ` Zi Yan
2020-10-05 15:55               ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-05 17:04                 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-05 19:12                 ` Zi Yan
2020-10-05 19:37                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-05 17:16               ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-05 17:27                 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-05 18:25                   ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-05 18:33                     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-05 19:11                       ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-06  8:25                         ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-05 17:39               ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-05 18:05                 ` Zi Yan
2020-10-05 18:48                   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-10-06 11:59                   ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-05 15:34         ` Zi Yan
2020-10-05 17:30           ` David Hildenbrand

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