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From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
To: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Increase the number of bits available in page_type
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:15:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7p6livmxw3yv3x3b3vpjwcbnzojwc4hwfpw35ih6noiuza3xxz@hldx5untscoh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240821173914.2270383-1-willy@infradead.org>

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 06:39:08PM GMT, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Kent wants more than 16 bits in page_type, so I resurrected this old patch
> and expanded it a bit.  It's a bit more efficient than our current scheme
> (1 4-byte insn vs 3 insns of 13 bytes total) to test a single page type.
> Survives a simple smoke test, but I haven't done any specific testing
> of these changes.

not page_type itself, but - if we can get 24 bits for that field in
struct slab, we can add the object size there and make __ksize() faster,
which we can use to get actual numbers on amount of memory stranded by
RCU (and faster __ksize() will no doubt be useful in other places...)


      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-08-21 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-21 17:39 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-08-21 17:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] printf: Remove %pGt support Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-08-21 21:00   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-08-21 21:08     ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-08-21 17:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: Introduce page_mapcount_is_type() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-08-21 21:01   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-08-21 17:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: Support only one page_type per page Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-08-21 21:05   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-08-28  3:35   ` Kefeng Wang
2025-08-01  2:43     ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-08-01  2:49       ` Kent Overstreet
2025-08-01  8:13       ` Kefeng Wang
2025-08-01 14:27         ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-08-02  2:00           ` Kefeng Wang
2024-08-21 17:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] zsmalloc: Use all available 24 bits of page_type Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-08-21 21:06   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-08-21 21:15 ` Kent Overstreet [this message]

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