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Upon initial allocation >>> failure, the system retries until successful or no further progress is >>> made, ensuring reliable hugepage allocation while preserving batched >> vmemmap freeing benefits. >>> >>> Testing on a 256G machine allocating 252G of hugepages: >>> Before: 128056/129024 hugepages allocated >>> After: Successfully allocated all 129024 hugepages >>> >>> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand >>> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing >>> --- >>> Diff with v2: auto retry mechanism >>> Diff with v1: add log if two-phase hugepage allocation is triggered >>> add the knod to control split ratio >>> >>> mm/hugetlb.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++---- >>> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 753f99b..18e54ea 100644 >>> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c >>> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c >>> @@ -3589,10 +3589,9 @@ static unsigned long __init >>> hugetlb_pages_alloc_boot(struct hstate *h) >>> >>> unsigned long jiffies_start; >>> unsigned long jiffies_end; >>> + unsigned long remaining; >>> >>> job.thread_fn = hugetlb_pages_alloc_boot_node; >>> - job.start = 0; >>> - job.size = h->max_huge_pages; >>> >>> /* >>> * job.max_threads is 25% of the available cpu threads by default. >>> @@ -3616,10 +3615,30 @@ static unsigned long __init >> hugetlb_pages_alloc_boot(struct hstate *h) >>> } >>> >>> job.max_threads = hugepage_allocation_threads; >>> - job.min_chunk = h->max_huge_pages / >> hugepage_allocation_threads; >>> >>> jiffies_start = jiffies; >>> - padata_do_multithreaded(&job); >>> + do { >>> + remaining = h->max_huge_pages - h->nr_huge_pages; >>> + >>> + job.start = h->nr_huge_pages; >>> + job.size = remaining; >>> + job.min_chunk = remaining / hugepage_allocation_threads; >>> + padata_do_multithreaded(&job); >>> + >>> + if (h->nr_huge_pages == h->max_huge_pages) >>> + break; > > If all pages are allocated, it will break out from here. Since in most cases the first allocation is successful, I have moved this check to the very beginning. Missed that, thanks! > >>> + >>> + /* >>> + * Retry allocation if vmemmap optimization is available, the >>> + * optimization frees ~1.6% of memory of hugepages, this reclaimed >>> + * memory enables additional hugepage allocations >> >> As I said, please remove any calculation details about the vmemmap. >> That's not the place to have such calculations easily become stale. >> >> Something like the following: >> >> /* >> * Retry only if the vmemmap optimization might have been able to free >> * some memory back to the system. >> */ >> > > Thanks, I will fix it > >>> + */ >>> + if (!hugetlb_vmemmap_optimizable(h)) >>> + break; >>> + >>> + /* Continue if progress was made in last iteration */ >> >> Comment wrongly indented. >> Maybe just comment above the loop that we retry as long as we are making progress instead. It's unusual to see these tail comments in loops. -- Cheers David / dhildenb