From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>, Oliver <oohall@gmail.com>,
"Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linux MM" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"Ross Zwisler" <zwisler@kernel.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/dax: Don't enable huge dax mapping by default
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:07:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4iLm09DSiF3niFprP3PTFrgB5pZPp9AysBpRa-m725tmw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df01bf6e-84a1-53fb-bf0c-0957af2f79e1@linux.ibm.com>
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 4:46 AM Aneesh Kumar K.V
<aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/6/19 5:14 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 14:47:33 +0530
> > "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 1:40 AM Oliver <oohall@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:35 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
> >>>> <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Also even if the user decided to not use THP, by
> >> echo "never" > transparent_hugepage/enabled , we should continue to map
> >> dax fault using huge page on platforms that can support huge pages.
> >
> > Is this a good idea?
> >
> > This knob is there for a reason. In some situations having huge pages
> > can severely impact performance of the system (due to host-guest
> > interaction or whatever) and the ability to really turn off all THP
> > would be important in those cases, right?
> >
>
> My understanding was that is not true for dax pages? These are not
> regular memory that got allocated. They are allocated out of /dev/dax/
> or /dev/pmem*. Do we have a reason not to use hugepages for mapping
> pages in that case?
The problem with the transparent_hugepage/enabled interface is that it
conflates performing compaction work to produce THP-pages with the
ability to map huge pages at all. The compaction is a nop for dax
because the memory is already statically allocated. If the
administrator does not want dax to consume huge TLB entries then don't
configure huge-page dax. If a hypervisor wants to force disable
huge-page-configured device-dax instances after the fact it seems we
need an explicit interface for that and not overload
transparent_hugepage/enabled.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-13 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-28 8:35 [PATCH 1/2] fs/dax: deposit pagetable even when installing zero page Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-02-28 8:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/dax: Don't enable huge dax mapping by default Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-02-28 9:40 ` Jan Kara
2019-02-28 12:32 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-02-28 9:40 ` Oliver
2019-02-28 12:43 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-02-28 16:45 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-06 9:17 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-03-06 11:44 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-03-06 12:45 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-03-06 13:06 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-03-13 16:07 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2019-03-19 8:44 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-03-19 15:36 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-13 16:02 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-14 3:45 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-03-14 4:02 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-20 8:06 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-03-20 8:09 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2019-03-20 15:34 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-20 20:57 ` Dan Williams
2019-03-21 3:08 ` Oliver
2019-03-21 3:12 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-28 9:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/dax: deposit pagetable even when installing zero page Jan Kara
2019-02-28 12:34 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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