From: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
<linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<shivankg@amd.com>, Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH V3 2/5] mm/khugepaged: count small VMAs towards scan limit
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:22:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260118192253.9263-8-shivankg@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260118192253.9263-4-shivankg@amd.com>
The khugepaged_scan_mm_slot() uses a 'progress' counter to limit the
amount of work performed and consists of three components:
1. Transitioning to a new mm (+1).
2. Skipping an unsuitable VMA (+1).
3. Scanning a PMD-sized range (+HPAGE_PMD_NR).
Consider a 1MB VMA sitting between two 2MB alignment boundaries:
vma1 vma2 vma3
+----------+------+----------+
|2M |1M |2M |
+----------+------+----------+
^ ^
start end
^
hstart,hend
In this case, for vma2:
hstart = round_up(start, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) -> Next 2MB alignment
hend = round_down(end, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) -> Prev 2MB alignment
Currently, since `hend <= hstart`, VMAs that are too small or unaligned
to contain a hugepage are skipped without incrementing 'progress'.
A process containing a large number of such small VMAs will unfairly
consume more CPU cycles before yielding compared to a process with
fewer, larger, or aligned VMAs.
Fix this by incrementing progress when the `hend <= hstart` condition
is met.
Additionally, change 'progress' type to `unsigned int` to match both
the 'pages' type and the function return value.
Suggested-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
---
Incorporate comment feedback from Lance:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/6b408736-978a-4d40-adfc-97819951c3a6@linux.dev
mm/khugepaged.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 984294a16861..93ce39915f4a 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2403,7 +2403,7 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
struct mm_slot *slot;
struct mm_struct *mm;
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
- int progress = 0;
+ unsigned int progress = 0;
VM_BUG_ON(!pages);
lockdep_assert_held(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
@@ -2447,7 +2447,8 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages, int *result,
}
hstart = round_up(vma->vm_start, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
hend = round_down(vma->vm_end, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
- if (khugepaged_scan.address > hend) {
+ if (khugepaged_scan.address > hend || hend <= hstart) {
+ /* VMA already scanned or too small/unaligned for hugepage. */
progress++;
continue;
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-18 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-18 19:22 [PATCH V3 0/5] mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix Shivank Garg
2026-01-18 19:22 ` [PATCH V3 1/5] mm/khugepaged: remove unnecessary goto 'skip' label Shivank Garg
2026-01-22 7:04 ` Dev Jain
2026-01-22 11:56 ` Nico Pache
2026-01-18 19:22 ` Shivank Garg [this message]
2026-01-22 7:32 ` [PATCH V3 2/5] mm/khugepaged: count small VMAs towards scan limit Dev Jain
2026-01-22 8:44 ` Lance Yang
2026-01-22 12:26 ` Garg, Shivank
2026-01-23 10:42 ` Garg, Shivank
2026-01-23 15:37 ` Andrew Morton
2026-01-23 20:07 ` Garg, Shivank
2026-01-18 19:22 ` [PATCH V3 3/5] mm/khugepaged: change collapse_pte_mapped_thp() to return void Shivank Garg
2026-01-22 12:17 ` Nico Pache
2026-01-18 19:22 ` [PATCH V3 4/5] mm/khugepaged: use enum scan_result for result variables and return types Shivank Garg
2026-01-19 10:24 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-22 9:19 ` Dev Jain
2026-01-22 12:14 ` Nico Pache
2026-01-18 19:23 ` [PATCH V3 5/5] mm/khugepaged: make khugepaged_collapse_control static Shivank Garg
2026-01-22 9:28 ` Dev Jain
2026-01-23 7:48 ` Dev Jain
2026-01-23 9:33 ` Garg, Shivank
2026-01-24 1:21 ` Andrew Morton
2026-01-24 3:02 ` Andrew Morton
2026-01-24 9:02 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-24 9:01 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-24 10:54 ` Dev Jain
2026-01-24 11:40 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-01-24 11:56 ` Dev Jain
2026-01-24 18:37 ` Garg, Shivank
2026-01-18 20:34 ` [PATCH V3 0/5] mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix Andrew Morton
2026-01-19 0:17 ` Zi Yan
2026-01-19 5:50 ` Garg, Shivank
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