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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] thp: rewrite freeze_page()/unfreeze_page() with generic rmap walkers
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:42:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160311094235.GA109992@black.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457351838-114702-5-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:57:18PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> freeze_page() and unfreeze_page() helpers evolved in rather complex
> beasts. It would be nice to cut complexity of this code.
> 
> This patch rewrites freeze_page() using standard try_to_unmap().
> unfreeze_page() is rewritten with remove_migration_ptes().
> 
> The result is much simpler.
> 
> But the new variant is somewhat slower for PTE-mapped THPs.
> Current helpers iterates over VMAs the compound page is mapped to, and
> then over ptes within this VMA. New helpers iterates over small page,
> then over VMA the small page mapped to, and only then find relevant pte.
> 
> We have short cut for PMD-mapped THP: we directly install migration
> entries on PMD split.
> 
> I don't think the slowdown is critical, considering how much simpler
> result is and that split_huge_page() is quite rare nowadays. It only
> happens due memory pressure or migration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/huge_mm.h |  10 ++-
>  mm/huge_memory.c        | 201 +++++++-----------------------------------------
>  mm/rmap.c               |   9 ++-
>  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 180 deletions(-)

Andrew, could you please fold patch below into this one.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-11  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-07 11:57 [PATCHv2 0/4] thp: simplify freeze_page() and unfreeze_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-07 11:57 ` [PATCHv2 1/4] rmap: introduce rmap_walk_locked() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-07 11:57 ` [PATCHv2 2/4] rmap: extend try_to_unmap() to be usable by split_huge_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-07 11:57 ` [PATCHv2 3/4] mm: make remove_migration_ptes() beyond mm/migration.c Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-07 11:57 ` [PATCHv2 4/4] thp: rewrite freeze_page()/unfreeze_page() with generic rmap walkers Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-03-11  9:42   ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2016-04-19 13:55   ` Sasha Levin

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