From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>, Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>,
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>, Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] powerpc: Kconfig: Enable THP_SWAP on Book3S64
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:17:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3abf510d24c8ef17bd5e324cccc5e03e548afade.1781170904.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1781170904.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com>
THP_SWAP avoids splitting of a transparent huge folio into 32 smaller
64K folios (Radix-64K pagesize / 2M PMD) or into 256 smaller 64K folios
(Hash-64K pagesize / 16M PMD), during swapout. This improves the
swapping performance since all the bookking & I/O submission happens
once per large folio. More details at [1].
PowerPC Book3S64 could not enable this before because PMD_ORDER is
selected at runtime depending upon the chosen MMU. The earlier patches
in this series turn SWAPFILE_CLUSTER into a runtime value and introduce
an ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER upperbound override for SWAP_NR_ORDERS. With those
changes, we can now enable THP SWAP for Book3S64.
This increases bandwidth throughput with zram backend for swapout by
40-50% with Radix and 100-130% with Hash (Tested by Sayali)
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20170515112522.32457-2-ying.huang@intel.com/
Tested-by: Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index bac02c83bb3e..48f74bd22343 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ config PPC_THP
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
select ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
choice
prompt "CPU selection"
--
2.39.5
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-11 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-11 9:47 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm, swap: Enable THP SWAP for PowerPC Book3S64 Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-06-11 9:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm, swap: make SWAPFILE_CLUSTER runtime Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-06-11 9:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm, swap: allow archs to override SWAP_NR_ORDERS via ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-06-11 9:47 ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM) [this message]
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