From: Ning Qu <quning@google.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>, Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 00/22] Transparent huge page cache: phase 1, everything but mmap()
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:48:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACz4_2dEoG22BwU4WuWzXX6cLXDVa6q1B-r=hrkKVN0eX82isw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130924163740.4bc7db61e3e520798220dc4c@linux-foundation.org>
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I am working on the tmpfs side on top of this patchset, which I assume has
better applications usage than ramfs.
However, I am working on 3.3 so far and will probably get my patches ported
to upstream pretty soon. I believe my patchset is also in early stage but
it does help to get some solid numbers in our own projects, which is very
convincing. However, I think it does depend on the characteristic of the
job .....
Best wishes,
--
Ning Qu (曲宁) | Software Engineer | quning@google.com | +1-408-418-6066
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:05:28 +0300 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <
> kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> > It brings thp support for ramfs, but without mmap() -- it will be posted
> > separately.
>
> We were never going to do this :(
>
> Has anyone reviewed these patches much yet?
>
> > Please review and consider applying.
>
> It appears rather too immature at this stage.
>
> > Intro
> > -----
> >
> > The goal of the project is preparing kernel infrastructure to handle huge
> > pages in page cache.
> >
> > To proof that the proposed changes are functional we enable the feature
> > for the most simple file system -- ramfs. ramfs is not that useful by
> > itself, but it's good pilot project.
>
> At the very least we should get this done for a real filesystem to see
> how intrusive the changes are and to evaluate the performance changes.
>
>
> Sigh. A pox on whoever thought up huge pages. Words cannot express
> how much of a godawful mess they have made of Linux MM. And it hasn't
> ended yet :( My take is that we'd need to see some very attractive and
> convincing real-world performance numbers before even thinking of
> taking this on.
>
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-23 12:05 Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 01/22] mm: implement zero_huge_user_segment and friends Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 02/22] radix-tree: implement preload for multiple contiguous elements Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 03/22] memcg, thp: charge huge cache pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 04/22] thp: compile-time and sysfs knob for thp pagecache Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 05/22] thp, mm: introduce mapping_can_have_hugepages() predicate Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 06/22] thp: represent file thp pages in meminfo and friends Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 07/22] thp, mm: rewrite add_to_page_cache_locked() to support huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 08/22] mm: trace filemap: dump page order Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 09/22] block: implement add_bdi_stat() Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 10/22] thp, mm: rewrite delete_from_page_cache() to support huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-25 20:02 ` Ning Qu
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 11/22] thp, mm: warn if we try to use replace_page_cache_page() with THP Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 12/22] thp, mm: add event counters for huge page alloc on file write or read Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 13/22] mm, vfs: introduce i_split_sem Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 14/22] thp, mm: allocate huge pages in grab_cache_page_write_begin() Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 15/22] thp, mm: naive support of thp in generic_perform_write Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 16/22] thp, mm: handle transhuge pages in do_generic_file_read() Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 17/22] thp, libfs: initial thp support Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 18/22] truncate: support huge pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 19/22] thp: handle file pages in split_huge_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 20/22] thp: wait_split_huge_page(): serialize over i_mmap_mutex too Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 21/22] thp, mm: split huge page on mmap file page Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-23 12:05 ` [PATCHv6 22/22] ramfs: enable transparent huge page cache Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-24 23:37 ` [PATCHv6 00/22] Transparent huge page cache: phase 1, everything but mmap() Andrew Morton
2013-09-24 23:48 ` Ning Qu [this message]
2013-09-24 23:49 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-24 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2013-09-25 11:15 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-25 15:05 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-26 18:30 ` Zach Brown
2013-09-26 19:05 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-30 10:13 ` Mel Gorman
2013-09-30 16:05 ` Andi Kleen
2013-09-25 9:51 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-25 23:29 ` Dave Chinner
2013-10-14 13:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-30 10:02 ` Mel Gorman
2013-09-30 10:10 ` Mel Gorman
2013-09-30 18:07 ` Ning Qu
2013-09-30 18:51 ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-01 8:38 ` Mel Gorman
2013-10-01 17:11 ` Ning Qu
2013-10-14 14:27 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-30 15:27 ` Dave Hansen
2013-09-30 18:05 ` Ning Qu
2013-09-25 0:12 ` Ning Qu
2013-09-25 9:23 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-26 21:13 ` Dave Hansen
2013-09-25 18:11 Ning Qu
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