Re: [PATCH] riscv: enable THP_SWAP for RV64

Andrew Jones
2022-08-22T08:03:21Z

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:05:59AM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> I have a Sipeed Lichee RV dock board which only has 512MB DDR, so
> memory optimizations such as swap on zram are helpful. As is seen
> in commit d0637c505f8a ("arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64") and
> commit bd4c82c22c367e ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP after
> swapped out"), THP_SWAP can improve the swap throughput significantly.
>
> Enable THP_SWAP for RV64, testing the micro-benchmark which is
> introduced by commit d0637c505f8a ("arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64")
> shows below numbers on the Lichee RV dock board:
>
> thp swp throughput w/o patch: 66908 bytes/ms (mean of 10 tests)
> thp swp throughput w/ patch: 322638 bytes/ms (mean of 10 tests)
>
> Improved by 382%!
>
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index ed66c31e4655..19088c750c7f 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ config RISCV
> select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
> select ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
> select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if 64BIT
> + select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> select BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET if !MMU
> select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT if MMU
> select CLONE_BACKWARDS
> --
> 2.34.1
>

That looks like a good idea to me.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>