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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: C102F120011 X-Rspamd-Server: rspam04 X-Rspam-User: X-Stat-Signature: ysfo3ecehgypf6pahaei6dij7szpu7f4 X-HE-Tag: 1756745215-518167 X-HE-Meta: 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 BMuElPR+ 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 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 29.08.25 03:55, Baolin Wang wrote: > > > On 2025/8/28 18:48, Dev Jain wrote: >> >> On 28/08/25 3:16 pm, Baolin Wang wrote: >>> (Sorry for chiming in late) >>> >>> On 2025/8/22 22:10, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>>>> Once could also easily support the value 255 (HPAGE_PMD_NR / 2- 1), >>>>>> but not sure >>>>>> if we have to add that for now. >>>>> >>>>> Yeah not so sure about this, this is a 'just have to know' too, and >>>>> yes you >>>>> might add it to the docs, but people are going to be mightily >>>>> confused, esp if >>>>> it's a calculated value. >>>>> >>>>> I don't see any other way around having a separate tunable if we >>>>> don't just have >>>>> something VERY simple like on/off. >>>> >>>> Yeah, not advocating that we add support for other values than 0/511, >>>> really. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Also the mentioned issue sounds like something that needs to be >>>>> fixed elsewhere >>>>> honestly in the algorithm used to figure out mTHP ranges (I may be >>>>> wrong - and >>>>> happy to stand corrected if this is somehow inherent, but reallly >>>>> feels that >>>>> way). >>>> >>>> I think the creep is unavoidable for certain values. >>>> >>>> If you have the first two pages of a PMD area populated, and you >>>> allow for at least half of the #PTEs to be non/zero, you'd collapse >>>> first a >>>> order-2 folio, then and order-3 ... until you reached PMD order. >>>> >>>> So for now we really should just support 0 / 511 to say "don't >>>> collapse if there are holes" vs. "always collapse if there is at >>>> least one pte used". >>> >>> If we only allow setting 0 or 511, as Nico mentioned before, "At 511, >>> no mTHP collapses would ever occur anyway, unless you have 2MB >>> disabled and other mTHP sizes enabled. Technically, at 511, only the >>> highest enabled order would ever be collapsed." >> I didn't understand this statement. At 511, mTHP collapses will occur if >> khugepaged cannot get a PMD folio. Our goal is to collapse to the >> highest order folio. > > Yes, I’m not saying that it’s incorrect behavior when set to 511. What I > mean is, as in the example I gave below, users may only want to allow a > large order collapse when the number of present PTEs reaches half of the > large folio, in order to avoid RSS bloat. How do these users control allocation at fault time where this parameter is completely ignored? -- Cheers David / dhildenb