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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, riel@surriel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:57:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c00f0fd8-fb46-8008-95c5-5454474d4fff@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qvqw5y3w30w4.fsf@devbig1114.prn1.facebook.com>

On 27.09.23 02:39, Stefan Roesch wrote:
> 
> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
>> On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:13:31 -0700 Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io> wrote:
>>
>>>> Thinking about it, what are the cons of just enabling this always and not
>>>> exposing new toggles? Alternatively, we could make this a compile-time option.
>>>>
>>>> In general, LGTM, just curious if we really have to make this configurable.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The only downside I can see is that it might take a longer time for some
>>> pages to be de-duplicated (a new candidate page is added, but its
>>> duplicate is skipped in this round). So it will take longer to
>>> de-duplicate this page.
>>>
>>> I tested with more than one workload, but it might be useful to get some
>>> data with additional workloads. I was thinking of enabling it after one or
>>> two releases.
>>
>> We could keep the tunable and make it default "on"?
> 
> Sounds good to me
> 

+1

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb



  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-27  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-26  4:09 [PATCH v3 0/4] Smart scanning mode for KSM Stefan Roesch
2023-09-26  4:09 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] mm/ksm: add "smart" page scanning mode Stefan Roesch
2023-09-26  7:41   ` David Hildenbrand
2023-09-26 16:13     ` Stefan Roesch
2023-09-26 21:09       ` Andrew Morton
2023-09-27  0:39         ` Stefan Roesch
2023-09-27  9:57           ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2023-09-26  4:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] mm/ksm: add pages_skipped metric Stefan Roesch
2023-09-26  4:09 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] mm/ksm: document smart scan mode Stefan Roesch
2023-09-26  4:09 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] mm/ksm: document pages_skipped sysfs knob Stefan Roesch

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