From: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: khugepaged: don't carry huge page to the next loop for !CONFIG_NUMA
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 10:25:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHbLzkoHghYQaqridYuWY=YUm4AB7sQDbCjbmGgr5iXx=nsETg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07fd6599-88cc-e353-26f0-5de3eeea5b9f@suse.cz>
On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 3:26 AM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> On 9/1/21 05:46, Yang Shi wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 4:38 PM Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 11:49:43AM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> >> > Gently ping...
> >> >
> >> > Does this patch make sense? BTW, I have a couple of other khugepaged
> >> > related patches in my queue. I plan to send them with this patch
> >> > together. It would be great to hear some feedback before resending
> >> > this one.
> >>
> >> I don't really care for !NUMA optimization. I believe that most of setups
> >> that benefit from THP has NUMA enabled compile time.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> >>
> >> But if you wanna to go this path, make an effort to cleanup other
> >> artifacts for the !NUMA optimization: the ifdef has to be gone and all
> >> callers of these helpers has to be revisited. There's more opportunities to
> >> cleanup. Like it is very odd that khugepaged_prealloc_page() frees the
> >> page.
> >
> > Yes, they are gone in this patch. The only remaining for !NUMA is
> > khugepaged_find_target_node() which just returns 0.
>
> As Kirill pointed out, there's also khugepaged_prealloc_page() where the
> only remaining variant does actually no preallocation, just freeing of an
> unused page and some kind of "sleep after first alloc fail, break after
> second alloc fail" logic.
> This could now be moved to khugepaged_do_scan() loop itself and maybe it
> will be easier to follow.
Aha, I see. Misunderstood him. I'm supposed that you mean move into
khugepaged_scan_mm_slot().
>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Kirill A. Shutemov
> >
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-01 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-17 20:21 Yang Shi
2021-08-30 18:49 ` Yang Shi
2021-08-31 23:38 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-09-01 3:46 ` Yang Shi
2021-09-01 10:26 ` Vlastimil Babka
2021-09-01 17:25 ` Yang Shi [this message]
2021-09-22 23:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-09-23 3:07 ` Yang Shi
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