From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
ying.huang@intel.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
chrisl@kernel.org, david@redhat.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
hughd@google.com, kaleshsingh@google.com, kasong@tencent.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mhocko@suse.com,
minchan@kernel.org, nphamcs@gmail.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com,
senozhatsky@chromium.org, shakeel.butt@linux.dev,
shy828301@gmail.com, surenb@google.com, v-songbaohua@oppo.com,
xiang@kernel.org, yosryahmed@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Introduce per-thpsize swapin control policy
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 04:52:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZqcR_oZmVpi2TrHO@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240726094618.401593-5-21cnbao@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 09:46:18PM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> A user space interface can be implemented to select different swap-in
> order policies, similar to the mTHP allocation order policy. We need
> a distinct policy because the performance characteristics of memory
> allocation differ significantly from those of swap-in. For example,
> SSD read speeds can be much slower than memory allocation. With
> policy selection, I believe we can implement mTHP swap-in for
> non-SWAP_SYNCHRONOUS scenarios as well. However, users need to understand
> the implications of their choices. I think that it's better to start
> with at least always never. I believe that we will add auto in the
> future to tune automatically, which can be used as default finally.
I strongly disagree. Use the same sysctl as the other anonymous memory
allocations.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-29 3:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-26 9:46 [PATCH v5 0/4] mm: support mTHP swap-in for zRAM-like swapfile Barry Song
2024-07-26 9:46 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] mm: swap: introduce swapcache_prepare_nr and swapcache_clear_nr for large folios swap-in Barry Song
2024-07-30 3:00 ` Baolin Wang
2024-07-30 3:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-07-30 3:15 ` Barry Song
2024-07-26 9:46 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] mm: Introduce mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap_nr() helper " Barry Song
2024-07-26 16:30 ` Yosry Ahmed
2024-07-29 2:02 ` Barry Song
2024-07-29 3:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-07-29 4:52 ` Barry Song
2024-07-26 9:46 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] mm: support large folios swapin as a whole for zRAM-like swapfile Barry Song
2024-07-29 3:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-07-29 4:41 ` Barry Song
[not found] ` <CAGsJ_4wxUZAysyg3cCVnHhOFt5SbyAMUfq3tJcX-Wb6D4BiBhA@mail.gmail.com>
2024-07-29 12:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-07-29 13:11 ` Barry Song
2024-07-29 15:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-07-29 20:03 ` Barry Song
2024-07-29 21:56 ` Barry Song
2024-07-30 8:12 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-07-29 6:36 ` Chuanhua Han
2024-07-29 12:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-07-29 13:18 ` Barry Song
2024-07-29 13:32 ` Chuanhua Han
2024-07-29 14:16 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-26 9:46 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Introduce per-thpsize swapin control policy Barry Song
2024-07-27 5:58 ` kernel test robot
2024-07-29 1:37 ` Barry Song
2024-07-29 3:52 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2024-07-29 4:49 ` Barry Song
2024-07-29 16:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-29 20:11 ` Barry Song
2024-07-30 16:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-07-30 19:28 ` Nhat Pham
2024-07-30 21:06 ` Barry Song
2024-07-31 18:35 ` Nhat Pham
2024-08-01 3:00 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2024-08-01 20:55 ` Chris Li
2024-08-12 8:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-12 8:44 ` Barry Song
2024-07-30 2:27 ` Chuanhua Han
2024-07-30 8:36 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-07-30 8:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-08-05 6:10 ` Huang, Ying
2024-08-02 12:20 ` [PATCH v6 0/2] mm: Ignite large folios swap-in support Barry Song
2024-08-02 12:20 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios Barry Song
2024-08-02 17:29 ` Chris Li
2024-08-02 12:20 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] mm: support large folios swap-in for zRAM-like devices Barry Song
2024-08-03 19:08 ` Andrew Morton
2024-08-12 8:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-12 8:53 ` Barry Song
2024-08-12 11:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-15 9:47 ` Kairui Song
2024-08-15 13:27 ` Kefeng Wang
2024-08-15 23:06 ` Barry Song
2024-08-16 16:50 ` Kairui Song
2024-08-16 20:34 ` Andrew Morton
2024-08-27 3:41 ` Chuanhua Han
2024-08-16 21:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-08-16 21:39 ` Barry Song
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