From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
David Nellans <dnellans@nvidia.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] 1GB THP support on x86_64
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 14:18:47 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200903171847.GJ1152540@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200903170157.GE14765@casper.infradead.org>
On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 06:01:57PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:50:51PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > At least from a RDMA NIC perspective I've heard from a lot of users
> > that higher order pages at the DMA level is giving big speed ups too.
> >
> > It is basically the same dynamic as CPU TLB, except missing a 'TLB'
> > cache in a PCI-E device is dramatically more expensive to refill. With
> > 200G and soon 400G networking these misses are a growing problem.
> >
> > With HPC nodes now pushing 1TB of actual physical RAM and single
> > applications basically using all of it, there is definately some
> > meaningful return - if pages can be reliably available.
> >
> > At least for HPC where the node returns to an idle state after each
> > job and most of the 1TB memory becomes freed up again, it seems more
> > believable to me that a large cache of 1G pages could be available?
>
> You may be interested in trying out my current THP patchset:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache.git
>
> It doesn't allocate pages larger than PMD size, but it does allocate pages
> *up to* PMD size for the page cache which means that larger pages are
> easier to create as larger pages aren't fragmented all over the system.
Yeah, I saw that, it looks like a great direction.
> If someone wants to opportunistically allocate pages larger than PMD
> size, I've put some preliminary support in for that, but I've never
> tested any of it. That's not my goal at the moment.
>
> I'm not clear whether these HPC users primarily use page cache or
> anonymous memory (with O_DIRECT). Probably a mixture.
There are defiantly HPC systems now that are filesystem-less - they
import data for computation from the network using things like blob
storage or some other kind of non-POSIX userspace based data storage
scheme.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-03 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-02 18:06 [RFC PATCH 00/16] 1GB THP support on x86_64 Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 01/16] mm: add pagechain container for storing multiple pages Zi Yan
2020-09-02 20:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-02 20:48 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-03 3:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-07 12:22 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-07 15:11 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-09 13:46 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-09 14:15 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 02/16] mm: thp: 1GB anonymous page implementation Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 03/16] mm: proc: add 1GB THP kpageflag Zi Yan
2020-09-09 13:46 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 04/16] mm: thp: 1GB THP copy on write implementation Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 05/16] mm: thp: handling 1GB THP reference bit Zi Yan
2020-09-09 14:09 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-09 14:36 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 06/16] mm: thp: add 1GB THP split_huge_pud_page() function Zi Yan
2020-09-09 14:18 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-09 14:19 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 07/16] mm: stats: make smap stats understand PUD THPs Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 08/16] mm: page_vma_walk: teach it about PMD-mapped PUD THP Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 09/16] mm: thp: 1GB THP support in try_to_unmap() Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 10/16] mm: thp: split 1GB THPs at page reclaim Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 11/16] mm: thp: 1GB THP follow_p*d_page() support Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 12/16] mm: support 1GB THP pagemap support Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 13/16] mm: thp: add a knob to enable/disable 1GB THPs Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 14/16] mm: page_alloc: >=MAX_ORDER pages allocation an deallocation Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 15/16] hugetlb: cma: move cma reserve function to cma.c Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 16/16] mm: thp: use cma reservation for pud thp allocation Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:40 ` [RFC PATCH 00/16] 1GB THP support on x86_64 Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-02 18:45 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-02 19:05 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-02 19:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-02 20:29 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-03 16:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-03 16:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-03 17:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-03 7:32 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-03 16:25 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-03 16:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-03 17:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-03 17:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-09-03 20:57 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-03 21:06 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-04 7:42 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-04 21:10 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-07 7:20 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-08 15:09 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-08 19:58 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-09 4:01 ` John Hubbard
2020-09-09 7:15 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-03 14:23 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-03 16:30 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-08 11:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-08 14:05 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-08 14:22 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-08 15:36 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-08 14:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-08 15:50 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-09 12:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-09 12:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-09 13:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-09 13:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 10:02 ` William Kucharski
2020-09-08 14:35 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-08 14:41 ` Rik van Riel
2020-09-08 15:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-09 7:04 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-09 13:19 ` Rik van Riel
2020-09-09 13:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-09 13:49 ` Rik van Riel
2020-09-09 13:54 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 7:32 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-10 8:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 14:21 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-10 14:34 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 14:41 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-10 15:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 13:32 ` Rik van Riel
2020-09-10 14:30 ` Zi Yan
2020-09-09 13:59 ` Michal Hocko
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