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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. >>>> >>> >>> I am all for not adding any more ugliness on top of all the ugliness we >>> added in the past. >>> >>> I will soon propose deprecating that parameter in favor of something >>> that makes a bit more sense. >>> >>> In essence, we'll likely have an "eagerness" parameter that ranges from >>> 0 to 10. 10 is essentially "always collapse" and 0 "never collapse if >>> not all is populated". >> Hi David, >> >> Do you have any reason for 0-10, I'm guessing these will map to >> different max_ptes_none values. >> I suggest 0-5, mapping to 0,32,64,128,255,511 > > That's too x86-64 specific. > > And the whole idea is not to map to directly, but give kernel wiggle > room to play. Initially we will start out simple and map it directly. But yeah, the idea is to give us some more room later. I had something logarithmic in mind which would roughly be (ignoring the the weird -1 for simplicity and expressing it as "used" instead of none-or-zero) 0 -> ~100% used (~0% none) 1 -> ~50% used (~50% none) 2 -> ~25% used (~75% none) 3 -> ~12.5% used (~87.5% none) 4 -> ~11.25% used (~88,75% none) ... 10 -> ~0% used (~100% none) Mapping that to actual THP sizes (#pages in a thp) on an arch will be easy. -- Cheers David / dhildenb