Re: [PATCH v10 00/13] khugepaged: mTHP support

Nico Pache
2025-08-20T15:56:27Z

On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:41:52 -0600 Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > The following series provides khugepaged with the capability to collapse
> > anonymous memory regions to mTHPs.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > - I created a test script that I used to push khugepaged to its limits
> > while monitoring a number of stats and tracepoints. The code is
> > available here[1] (Run in legacy mode for these changes and set mthp
> > sizes to inherit)
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> Could this be turned into something in tools/testing/selftests/mm/?
Yep! I was actually working on some selftests for this before I hit a
weird bug during some of my testing, which took precedence over that.

I was planning on sending a separate series for the testing. One of
the pain points was that selftests helpers were set up for PMDs, but I
think Baolin just cleaned that up in his khugepaged mTHP shmem series
(still need to review). So it should be a lot easier to implement now.
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> > V10 Changes:
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> I'll add this to mm-new, thanks. I'll suppress the usual emails.
Thank you :)
-- Nico
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