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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



  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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