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I don't think we want to call that THP >>>>> and that can confuse folks. Leaving "currently" also seems to >>>>> indicate that there is more work to be done for THP for filesystems >>>>> but that's not true as well. So how about something like: >>>>> >>>>> THP only works for anonymous memory mappings, and the tmpfs/shmem is the only >>>>> filesystem to support it. The alternative to THP for other filesystems is to >>>>> support large folios and with it you can end up using huge pages >>>> >>>> That makes things more complicated without a good reason. >>>> >>>> See CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS as an early usage of the term "THP" for >>>> stuff we have in the pagecache. >>> >>> OK. >>> >>>> (with large folios we now properly implement >>>> this concept, and support more than only PMD size) >>> >>> Do we really want to call large folio support on filesystems THP? >> >> Good question. >> >> "folio" is just the metadata we currently use to manage a chunk of memory, >> and a "large folio" is one that spans more than a single page -- huge page, >> large page, super page, ... in the past the metadata for that used to be a >> complicated piece of "compound page". In the future, we might call it >> differently (struct file_mem ?), who knows. >> >> So "large folio" support in a fs allows for the usage of these larger chunks >> of memory (huge pages). > > I'm a bit confused here. I thought the term 'huge pages' referred to specific > page table level like PMD, PUD, or PGD (and not PTE). And "large folio" term can > span up to anything (currently up to PMD). Could you clarify if I'm > misunderstanding something? The transhuge.rst is still a bit inconsistent and confusing, but we started generalizing the concept to special-case "Traditional THPs" to be PMD-sized THPs. See the description about mTHP in the document. If a small folio represents a single page, then a large folio represents multiple pages (large/huge/super page). But again, "folio" is the metadata we use to manage this chunk of memory. Just like we didn't call a "huge page" a "compound page" back in the days; the "compound page" was a way to manage the metadata assigned to a "larger chunk of memory covering multiple base pages" as one unit. I once had a longer writeup about all that (including how hugetlb supports different huge page sizes, how freebsd calls these thing super pages etc). This topic seems to pop every 6 months, likely we really should do a better job at documenting all that. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb