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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	kirill@shutemov.name, hughd@google.com, aaron.lu@intel.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: remove use_zero_page sysfs knob
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 20:51:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180722035156.GA12125@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1807201401390.231119@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 02:05:52PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> The huge zero page can be reclaimed under memory pressure and, if it is, 
> it is attempted to be allocted again with gfp flags that attempt memory 
> compaction that can become expensive.  If we are constantly under memory 
> pressure, it gets freed and reallocated millions of times always trying to 
> compact memory both directly and by kicking kcompactd in the background.
> 
> It likely should also be per node.

Have you benchmarked making the non-huge zero page per-node?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-07-22  3:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-20 18:13 Yang Shi
2018-07-20 19:32 ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-20 20:02   ` David Rientjes
2018-07-20 20:37     ` Yang Shi
2018-07-20 21:05       ` David Rientjes
2018-07-20 23:49         ` Yang Shi
2018-07-22  3:51         ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-07-23 20:28           ` David Rientjes
2018-07-23 21:33             ` David Rientjes
2018-07-23 21:49               ` Yang Shi
2018-07-24  9:08               ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-07-24 20:32                 ` David Rientjes
2018-07-20 21:06 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-07-20 23:51   ` Yang Shi
2018-07-23 20:31     ` David Rientjes
2018-07-23 21:52       ` Yang Shi
2018-07-23 23:14         ` David Rientjes

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