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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org,  hughd@google.com, david@redhat.com,
	wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, 21cnbao@gmail.com,
	 ryan.roberts@arm.com, ioworker0@gmail.com, da.gomez@samsung.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] Support large folios for tmpfs
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:06:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5p22lehyjjzxvohppdmt2vkkplrrd6ss6tev2px6troxyii4ab@eaphjvxiwrfc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c6b7456-8846-44b0-8e58-158c480aaead@linux.alibaba.com>

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:34:14AM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
> IIUC, most file systems use method similar to iomap buffered IO (see
> iomap_get_folio()) to allocate huge pages. What I mean is that, it would be
> better to have a real use case to add a hint for allocating THP (other than
> tmpfs).

I would be nice to hear from folks who works with production what the
actual needs are.

But I find asymmetry between MADV_ hints and FADV_ hints wrt huge pages
not justified. I think it would be easy to find use-cases for
FADV_HUGEPAGE/FADV_NOHUGEPAGE.

Furthermore I think it would be useful to have some kind of mechanism to
make these hints persistent: any open of a file would have these hints set
by default based on inode metadata on backing storage. Although, I am not
sure what the right way to archive that. xattrs?

-- 
  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov


  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-22 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-10  9:58 Baolin Wang
2024-10-10  9:58 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/4] mm: factor out the order calculation into a new helper Baolin Wang
2024-10-10  9:58 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/4] mm: shmem: change shmem_huge_global_enabled() to return huge order bitmap Baolin Wang
2024-10-10  9:58 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] mm: shmem: add large folio support to the write and fallocate paths for tmpfs Baolin Wang
2024-10-10  9:58 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] docs: tmpfs: add documention for 'write_size' huge option Baolin Wang
2024-10-16  7:49 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] Support large folios for tmpfs Kefeng Wang
2024-10-16  9:29   ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-16 13:45     ` Kefeng Wang
2024-10-17  9:52       ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-16 14:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-10-17  9:34   ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-17 11:26     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2024-10-21  6:24       ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-21  8:54         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2024-10-21 13:34           ` Daniel Gomez
2024-10-22  3:41             ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-22 15:31               ` David Hildenbrand
2024-10-23  8:04                 ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-23  9:27                   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-10-24 10:49                     ` Daniel Gomez
2024-10-24 10:52                       ` Daniel Gomez
2024-10-25  2:56                       ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-25 20:21                       ` David Hildenbrand
2024-10-28  9:48                         ` David Hildenbrand
2024-10-31  3:43                           ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-31  8:53                             ` David Hildenbrand
2024-10-31 10:04                               ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-31 10:46                                 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-11-05 12:45                                   ` Baolin Wang
2024-11-05 14:56                                     ` David Hildenbrand
2024-11-06  3:17                                       ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-31 10:46                                 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-10-28 21:56                         ` Daniel Gomez
2024-10-29 12:20                           ` David Hildenbrand
2024-10-22  3:34           ` Baolin Wang
2024-10-22 10:06             ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2024-10-23  9:25               ` Baolin Wang

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