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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: dinc3k71t6x7ttfmj6hyw4cp7rf11z8k X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: B381940014 X-Rspamd-Server: rspam05 X-HE-Tag: 1756214723-348062 X-HE-Meta: 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 9k5GU/5K cQRzebOihZyHyxcyd3QZtkTQNTRgSjPA1LMqIZ7149vaeUoSl8MjGEUcuN1kFdZF4R0nR4uFIXTbDQUCvefYLBvxwnAQ5wdd9Mt3vkKHVOFLhTLb9SsmzuSklH4peEX2v/ij/+lMhOB6xFtnG52hIdRlLuvqSdIGl/QlUve/FIaIJj8JhoS9qbwT8m/FbIZ9MsxYnOAlT7NlOfxMk5db42lSrLPIRW7Nd07ijbMY/BuZigPA6pSxrcFtfHkaiwYUb9hJn7kkGdmMwEIWybksa4muszuJfcW73Q6PqdlGsq9XD1/yeb65J5Wjyh9P0Kfd2yjc1yyWZLgFSyZwFTeEw1uqDcXX+COCB7SMDtHF7fHbmOMeF9j8QAI0HvxjZXcPD6wh9PrTdtw94fEy3vTzvMYPBAZPlAXkm2ovbqgQleFE2Gm7ft0/T51l7YD1TAD7mHnbphe7OyNuF4ZEcokjKeFLrihPOGnf443EumU0i3oPSp+Q= 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 26.08.25 12:18, lirongqing wrote: > From: Li RongQing > > When the total reserved hugepages account for 95% or more of system RAM > (common in cloud computing on physical servers), allocating them all in one > go can lead to OOM or fail to allocate huge page during early boot. > > The commit 91f386bf0772 ("hugetlb: batch freeing of vmemmap pages") can > worsen peak memory pressure under these conditions by deferring page frees, > exacerbating allocation failures. To prevent this, split the allocation > into two equal batches whenever > huge_reserved_pages >= totalram_pages() * 90 / 100. > > This change does not alter the number of padata worker threads per batch; > it merely introduces a second round of padata_do_multithreaded(). The added > overhead of restarting the worker threads is minimal. > > The result on a 256G memory machine as below: > Before: > [ 4.350400] HugeTLB: allocation took 706ms with hugepage_allocation_threads=32 > [ 4.351577] HugeTLB: allocating 128512 of page size 2.00 MiB failed. Only allocated 128074 hugepages. > [ 4.355608] HugeTLB: registered 2.00 MiB page size, pre-allocated 128074 pages > After: > [ 3.561088] HugeTLB: two-phase hugepage allocation is used > [ 4.280300] HugeTLB: allocation took 712ms with hugepage_allocation_threads=32 > [ 4.281054] HugeTLB: registered 2.00 MiB page size, pre-allocated 128512 pages > > Fixes: 91f386bf0772 ("hugetlb: batch freeing of vmemmap pages") > > Co-developed-by: Wenjie Xu > Signed-off-by: Wenjie Xu > Signed-off-by: Li RongQing > --- > Diff with v1: add log if two-phase hugepage allocation is triggered > add the knod to control split ratio > > Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst | 12 +++++++++ > mm/hugetlb.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst > index 67a9419..5cfb6e3 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst > @@ -156,6 +156,18 @@ hugepage_alloc_threads > hugepage_alloc_threads=8 > > Note that this parameter only applies to non-gigantic huge pages. > + > +hugepage_split_ratio > + Controls the threshold for two-phase hugepage allocation. > + When the total number of reserved hugepages (huge_reserved_pages) exceeds > + (totalram_pages * hugepage_split_ratio / 100), the hugepage allocation process > + during boot is split into two batches. > + > + Default value is 90, meaning the two-phase allocation is triggered when > + reserved hugepages exceed 90% of total system RAM. > + The value can be adjusted via the kernel command line parameter > + "hugepage_split_ratio=". Valid range is 1 to 99. Can we just do something reasonable here and not introduce toggles where nobody knows how to really set a reasonable value? This really sounds like something we should not be exporting to users. Also, can't we fail lightly during the first attempt and dynamically decide if we should do a second pase? -- Cheers David / dhildenb