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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: rxro6ex9hg6qcz7qxfpu3qu1pd3tti87 X-Rspam-User: X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 17CB94000B X-Rspamd-Server: rspam10 X-HE-Tag: 1757691933-701782 X-HE-Meta: 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 DO30B4B6 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 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 12.09.25 17:41, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 04:56:47PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> On 12.09.25 16:35, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 04:28:09PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>> On 12.09.25 15:47, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>>> On 12.09.25 14:19, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 09:27:55PM -0600, Nico Pache wrote: >>>>>>> The following series provides khugepaged with the capability to collapse >>>>>>> anonymous memory regions to mTHPs. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> To achieve this we generalize the khugepaged functions to no longer depend >>>>>>> on PMD_ORDER. Then during the PMD scan, we use a bitmap to track individual >>>>>>> pages that are occupied (!none/zero). After the PMD scan is done, we do >>>>>>> binary recursion on the bitmap to find the optimal mTHP sizes for the PMD >>>>>>> range. The restriction on max_ptes_none is removed during the scan, to make >>>>>>> sure we account for the whole PMD range. When no mTHP size is enabled, the >>>>>>> legacy behavior of khugepaged is maintained. max_ptes_none will be scaled >>>>>>> by the attempted collapse order to determine how full a mTHP must be to be >>>>>>> eligible for the collapse to occur. If a mTHP collapse is attempted, but >>>>>>> contains swapped out, or shared pages, we don't perform the collapse. It is >>>>>>> now also possible to collapse to mTHPs without requiring the PMD THP size >>>>>>> to be enabled. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> When enabling (m)THP sizes, if max_ptes_none >= HPAGE_PMD_NR/2 (255 on >>>>>>> 4K page size), it will be automatically capped to HPAGE_PMD_NR/2 - 1 for >>>>>>> mTHP collapses to prevent collapse "creep" behavior. This prevents >>>>>>> constantly promoting mTHPs to the next available size, which would occur >>>>>>> because a collapse introduces more non-zero pages that would satisfy the >>>>>>> promotion condition on subsequent scans. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hm. Maybe instead of capping at HPAGE_PMD_NR/2 - 1 we can count >>>>>> all-zeros 4k as none_or_zero? It mirrors the logic of shrinker. >>>>> >>>>> BTW, I thought further about this and I agree: if we count zero-filled >>>>> pages towards none_or_zero one we can avoid the "creep" problem. >>>>> >>>>> The scanning-for-zero part is rather nasty, though. >>>> >>>> Aaand, thinking again from the other direction, this would mean that just >>>> because pages became zero after some time that we would no longer collapse >>>> because none_or_zero would then be higher. Hm .... >>>> >>>> How I hate all of this so very very much :) >>> >>> This is not new. Shrinker has the same problem: it cannot distinguish >>> between hot 4k that happened to be zero from the 4k that is there just >>> because of we faulted in 2M a time. >> >> Right. And so far that problem is isolated to the shrinker. >> >> To me so far "none_or_zero" really meant "will I consume more memory when >> collapsing". That's not true for zero-filled pages, obviously. > > Well, KSM can reclaim these zero-filled memory until we collapse it. KSM is used so rarely (for good reasons) that I would never ever build an argument based on its existence :P But yes: during the very first shrinker discussion I raised that KSM can do the same thing. Obviously that was not good enough. -- Cheers David / dhildenb