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From: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
To: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com, ziy@nvidia.com,
	baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,
	Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, npache@redhat.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com,
	dev.jain@arm.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	gutierrez.asier@huawei-partners.com, willy@infradead.org,
	ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org,
	ameryhung@gmail.com, rientjes@google.com, corbet@lwn.net,
	21cnbao@gmail.com, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, tj@kernel.org,
	lance.yang@linux.dev
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 mm-new 05/12] mm: thp: decouple THP allocation between swap and page fault paths
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:19:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <37ec3e8b-e46d-40d4-826d-b4b2378015cb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250926093343.1000-6-laoar.shao@gmail.com>



On 26/09/2025 10:33, Yafang Shao wrote:
> The new BPF capability enables finer-grained THP policy decisions by
> introducing separate handling for swap faults versus normal page faults.
> 
> As highlighted by Barry:
> 
>   We’ve observed that swapping in large folios can lead to more
>   swap thrashing for some workloads- e.g. kernel build. Consequently,
>   some workloads might prefer swapping in smaller folios than those
>   allocated by alloc_anon_folio().
> 
> While prtcl() could potentially be extended to leverage this new policy,
> doing so would require modifications to the uAPI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
> Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/huge_mm.h | 3 ++-
>  mm/huge_memory.c        | 2 +-
>  mm/memory.c             | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-26 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-26  9:33 [PATCH v8 mm-new 00/12] mm, bpf: BPF based THP order selection Yafang Shao
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 01/12] mm: thp: remove disabled task from khugepaged_mm_slot Yafang Shao
2025-09-26 14:11   ` Usama Arif
2025-09-28  2:21     ` Yafang Shao
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 02/12] mm: thp: remove vm_flags parameter from khugepaged_enter_vma() Yafang Shao
2025-09-26 14:49   ` Usama Arif
2025-09-28  2:35     ` Yafang Shao
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 03/12] mm: thp: remove vm_flags parameter from thp_vma_allowable_order() Yafang Shao
2025-09-26 14:54   ` Usama Arif
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 04/12] mm: thp: add support for BPF based THP order selection Yafang Shao
2025-09-26 15:13   ` Usama Arif
2025-09-26 19:17     ` Randy Dunlap
2025-09-28  2:13     ` Yafang Shao
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 05/12] mm: thp: decouple THP allocation between swap and page fault paths Yafang Shao
2025-09-26 15:19   ` Usama Arif [this message]
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 06/12] mm: thp: enable THP allocation exclusively through khugepaged Yafang Shao
2025-09-26 15:27   ` Usama Arif
2025-09-28  2:58     ` Yafang Shao
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 07/12] bpf: mark mm->owner as __safe_rcu_or_null Yafang Shao
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 08/12] bpf: mark vma->vm_mm as __safe_trusted_or_null Yafang Shao
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 09/12] selftests/bpf: add a simple BPF based THP policy Yafang Shao
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 10/12] selftests/bpf: add test case to update " Yafang Shao
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 11/12] selftests/bpf: add test cases for invalid thp_adjust usage Yafang Shao
2025-09-26  9:33 ` [PATCH v8 mm-new 12/12] Documentation: add BPF-based THP policy management Yafang Shao

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