From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qc0-f180.google.com (mail-qc0-f180.google.com [209.85.216.180]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DAB6B006E for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:00:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qcsf5 with SMTP id f5so3600731qcs.2 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2015 07:00:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m97si8115567qkh.28.2015.06.15.06.59.58 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 15 Jun 2015 06:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <557EDA53.3040906@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 09:59:47 -0400 From: Rik van Riel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] mm: make swapin readahead to improve thp collapse rate References: <1434294283-8699-1-git-send-email-ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> <1434294283-8699-4-git-send-email-ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1434294283-8699-4-git-send-email-ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ebru Akagunduz , linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com, aarcange@redhat.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, xiexiuqi@huawei.com, gorcunov@openvz.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mgorman@suse.de, rientjes@google.com, vbabka@suse.cz, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, hughd@google.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mhocko@suse.cz, boaz@plexistor.com, raindel@mellanox.com On 06/14/2015 11:04 AM, Ebru Akagunduz wrote: > This patch makes swapin readahead to improve thp collapse rate. > When khugepaged scanned pages, there can be a few of the pages > in swap area. > > With the patch THP can collapse 4kB pages into a THP when > there are up to max_ptes_swap swap ptes in a 2MB range. > > The patch was tested with a test program that allocates > 800MB of memory, writes to it, and then sleeps. I force > the system to swap out all. Afterwards, the test program > touches the area by writing, it skips a page in each > 20 pages of the area. > > Without the patch, system did not swap in readahead. > THP rate was %47 of the program of the memory, it > did not change over time. > > With this patch, after 10 minutes of waiting khugepaged had > collapsed %99 of the program's memory. > > Signed-off-by: Ebru Akagunduz Mechanism looks good to me. Acked-by: Rik van Riel -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org