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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] mm/hugetlb: Make walk_hugetlb_range() safe to pmd unshare
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 09:39:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5NIoqXlAvrXkCOM@x1n> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72a62bf5-7633-f35f-75fd-0222fd0ab49f@redhat.com>

On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 11:24:55AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> For such cases, it would be good to have any evidence that it really helps.

I don't know much on the s390 path, but if a process has a large hugetlb
vma, even MADV_DONTNEED will be blocked for whatever long time if there's
another process or thread scanning pagemap for this vma.

Would this justify a bit?

It's just that the vma lock is taken write far more than mmap_lock taken
write I think, meanwhile what we need here is only release the lock and
retake, nothing else.  It didn't make things over complicated, IMO.

No strong ipinion from my side, as I said to me it's really low hanging
fruit.  If you still think that doesn't justify and if Mike doesn't have a
preference either I can just drop it for later.

-- 
Peter Xu



  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-09 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-07 20:30 [PATCH v2 00/10] mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset() thread-safe for pmd unshare Peter Xu
2022-12-07 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] mm/hugetlb: Let vma_offset_start() to return start Peter Xu
2022-12-07 21:21   ` John Hubbard
2022-12-07 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] mm/hugetlb: Don't wait for migration entry during follow page Peter Xu
2022-12-07 22:03   ` John Hubbard
2022-12-07 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] mm/hugetlb: Document huge_pte_offset usage Peter Xu
2022-12-07 20:49   ` John Hubbard
2022-12-08 13:05     ` David Hildenbrand
2022-12-07 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] mm/hugetlb: Move swap entry handling into vma lock when faulted Peter Xu
2022-12-07 22:36   ` John Hubbard
2022-12-07 22:43     ` Peter Xu
2022-12-07 23:05       ` John Hubbard
2022-12-08 20:28         ` Peter Xu
2022-12-08 20:31           ` John Hubbard
2022-12-07 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] mm/hugetlb: Make userfaultfd_huge_must_wait() safe to pmd unshare Peter Xu
2022-12-07 23:19   ` John Hubbard
2022-12-07 23:44     ` Peter Xu
2022-12-07 23:54       ` John Hubbard
2022-12-07 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] mm/hugetlb: Make hugetlb_follow_page_mask() " Peter Xu
2022-12-07 23:21   ` John Hubbard
2022-12-07 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] mm/hugetlb: Make follow_hugetlb_page() " Peter Xu
2022-12-07 23:25   ` John Hubbard
2022-12-07 20:30 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] mm/hugetlb: Make walk_hugetlb_range() " Peter Xu
2022-12-07 20:34   ` John Hubbard
2022-12-08 13:14   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-12-08 20:47     ` Peter Xu
2022-12-08 21:20       ` Peter Xu
2022-12-09 10:24       ` David Hildenbrand
2022-12-09 14:39         ` Peter Xu [this message]
2022-12-09 15:18           ` David Hildenbrand
2022-12-07 20:31 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] mm/hugetlb: Introduce hugetlb_walk() Peter Xu
2022-12-07 22:27   ` Mike Kravetz
2022-12-08  0:12   ` John Hubbard
2022-12-08 21:01     ` Peter Xu
2022-12-08 21:50       ` John Hubbard
2022-12-08 23:21         ` Peter Xu
2022-12-07 20:31 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] mm/hugetlb: Document why page_vma_mapped_walk() is safe to walk Peter Xu
2022-12-08  0:16   ` John Hubbard
2022-12-08 21:05     ` Peter Xu
2022-12-08 21:54       ` John Hubbard
2022-12-08 22:21         ` Peter Xu
2022-12-09  0:24           ` John Hubbard
2022-12-09  0:43             ` Peter Xu
2022-12-08 13:16   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-12-08 21:05     ` Peter Xu

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