From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 00/24] THP refcounting redesign
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:12:05 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761a0arki.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425486792-93161-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> writes:
> Hello everybody,
>
> It's bug-fix update of my thp refcounting work.
>
> The goal of patchset is to make refcounting on THP pages cheaper with
> simpler semantics and allow the same THP compound page to be mapped with
> PMD and PTEs. This is required to get reasonable THP-pagecache
> implementation.
>
> With the new refcounting design it's much easier to protect against
> split_huge_page(): simple reference on a page will make you the deal.
> It makes gup_fast() implementation simpler and doesn't require
> special-case in futex code to handle tail THP pages.
>
> It should improve THP utilization over the system since splitting THP in
> one process doesn't necessary lead to splitting the page in all other
> processes have the page mapped.
I tested this patch on ppc64 and verified thp allocation and split.
I also checked the subpage_prot and it worked as expected. I will
run more tests with this series and update if I find any issues.
-aneesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-17 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-04 16:32 [PATCHv4 00/24] THP refcounting redesign Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 01/24] thp: cluster split_huge_page* code together Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 02/24] mm: change PageAnon() and page_anon_vma() to work on tail pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 03/24] mm: avoid PG_locked " Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 18:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-03-04 20:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 04/24] rmap: add argument to charge compound page Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 05/24] mm, proc: adjust PSS calculation Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 06/24] mm: store mapcount for compound page separately Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 07/24] mm, thp: adjust conditions when we can reuse the page on WP fault Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 08/24] mm: adjust FOLL_SPLIT for new refcounting Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 09/24] thp, mlock: do not allow huge pages in mlocked area Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 10/24] khugepaged: ignore pmd tables with THP mapped with ptes Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:32 ` [PATCHv4 11/24] thp: rename split_huge_page_pmd() to split_huge_pmd() Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 12/24] thp: PMD splitting without splitting compound page Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-17 8:32 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-03-29 15:55 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-03-29 17:42 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-29 16:28 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-03-29 17:43 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-04-01 6:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-04-01 13:17 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-04-01 23:13 ` Hugh Dickins
2015-04-02 15:39 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 13/24] mm, vmstats: new THP splitting event Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 18:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 14/24] thp: implement new split_huge_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 15/24] mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-29 16:10 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-03-29 17:51 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 16/24] x86, " Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 17/24] futex, thp: remove special case for THP in get_futex_key Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 18/24] thp, mm: split_huge_page(): caller need to lock page Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-30 14:10 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-03-30 15:20 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 19/24] thp, mm: use migration entries to freeze page counts on split Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-30 14:19 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-03-30 15:23 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-30 15:08 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-03-30 15:26 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-30 15:45 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-04-01 13:19 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 20/24] mm, thp: remove compound_lock Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-31 15:50 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 21/24] thp: introduce deferred_split_huge_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 22/24] memcg: adjust to support new THP refcounting Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 23/24] ksm: split huge pages on follow_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-04 16:33 ` [PATCHv4 24/24] thp: update documentation Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-05 12:55 ` [PATCHv4 00/24] THP refcounting redesign Jerome Marchand
2015-03-05 16:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-06 12:18 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-06 15:58 ` Jerome Marchand
2015-03-17 9:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2015-03-19 17:10 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-03-30 15:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-04-01 13:26 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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