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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 :) -- Cheers David / dhildenb