From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@gmail.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 00/10] Small-sized THP for anonymous memory
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:10:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZWVoPT4AZOLJ/eE4@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sf4rppuc.fsf@nvdebian.thelocal>
On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 07:20:26PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
> I don't like "large anon folios" because it seems to confuse collegaues
> when explaining that large anon folios are actually smaller than the
> existing Hugetlb/THP size. I suspect this is because they already assume
> large folios are used for THP. I guess this wouldn't be an issue if
> everyone assumed THP was implemented with huge folios, but that doesn't
> seem to be the case for me at least. Likely because the default THP size
> is often 2MB, which is hardly huge.
I find your colleagues confusing. To me, "huge" seems bigger than
"large". I don't seem to be the only one:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-among-big-large-huge-enormous-and-giant
(for example)
Perhaps the problem is that people have turned "THP" into a thing in its
own right. So they feel comfortable talking about small THP, medium THP
and large THP and ignoring that there's already a "huge" embedded in THP.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to put my PIN number into the ATM machine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-28 4:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-22 16:29 [RESEND PATCH v7 00/10] Small-sized THP for anonymous memory Ryan Roberts
2023-11-22 16:29 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 01/10] mm: Allow deferred splitting of arbitrary anon large folios Ryan Roberts
2023-11-27 8:27 ` Barry Song
2023-11-22 16:29 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 02/10] mm: Non-pmd-mappable, large folios for folio_add_new_anon_rmap() Ryan Roberts
2023-11-24 17:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-27 10:34 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-27 4:36 ` Barry Song
2023-11-27 11:30 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-22 16:29 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 03/10] mm: thp: Introduce per-size thp sysfs interface Ryan Roberts
2023-11-29 3:42 ` John Hubbard
2023-11-29 8:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-29 11:05 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-29 19:40 ` John Hubbard
2023-11-30 12:14 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-22 16:29 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 04/10] mm: thp: Support allocation of anonymous small-sized THP Ryan Roberts
2023-11-27 3:41 ` Barry Song
2023-11-27 11:28 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-22 16:29 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 05/10] selftests/mm/kugepaged: Restore thp settings at exit Ryan Roberts
2023-11-23 5:54 ` Alistair Popple
2023-11-22 16:29 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 06/10] selftests/mm: Factor out thp settings management Ryan Roberts
2023-11-23 6:07 ` Alistair Popple
2023-11-27 12:22 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-22 16:29 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 07/10] selftests/mm: Support small-sized THP interface in thp_settings Ryan Roberts
2023-11-22 16:29 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 08/10] selftests/mm/khugepaged: Enlighten for small-sized THP Ryan Roberts
2023-11-22 16:29 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 09/10] selftests/mm/cow: Generalize do_run_with_thp() helper Ryan Roberts
2023-11-24 17:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-27 10:48 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-27 13:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-27 14:11 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-27 14:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-22 16:29 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 10/10] selftests/mm/cow: Add tests for anonymous small-sized THP Ryan Roberts
2023-11-27 14:02 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-27 14:50 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-27 14:54 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-22 16:32 ` [RESEND PATCH v7 00/10] Small-sized THP for anonymous memory David Hildenbrand
2023-11-23 6:28 ` John Hubbard
2023-11-23 15:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-23 16:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-23 16:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-23 16:50 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-24 1:14 ` John Hubbard
2023-11-24 1:34 ` Zi Yan
2023-11-24 9:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-24 9:56 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-24 15:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-24 15:23 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-24 15:25 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-24 15:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-24 17:34 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-27 8:20 ` Alistair Popple
2023-11-27 10:31 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-28 2:09 ` John Hubbard
2023-11-28 8:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-28 12:15 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-28 14:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-28 15:34 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-28 16:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-11-28 18:39 ` John Hubbard
2023-11-29 9:59 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-29 19:46 ` John Hubbard
2023-11-28 4:10 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-11-28 4:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-28 8:47 ` David Hildenbrand
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