From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
lcapitulino@redhat.com, pagupta@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
dodgen@google.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
dhildenb@redhat.com, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch v9 0/6] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:37:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190325113543-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99b9fa88-17b1-f2a9-7dd4-7a8f6e790d30@redhat.com>
On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:27:46AM -0400, Nitesh Narayan Lal wrote:
> I performed some experiments to see if the current implementation of
> hinting breaks THP. I used AnonHugePages to track the THP pages
> currently in use and memhog as the guest workload.
> Setup:
> Host Size: 30GB (No swap)
> Guest Size: 15GB
> THP Size: 2MB
> Process: Guest is installed with different kernels to hint different
> granularities(MAX_ORDER - 1, MAX_ORDER - 2 and MAX_ORDER - 3). Memhog
> 15G is run multiple times in the same guest to see AnonHugePages usage
> in the host.
>
> Observation:
> There is no THP split for order MAX_ORDER - 1 & MAX_ORDER - 2 whereas
> for hinting granularity MAX_ORDER - 3 THP does split irrespective of
> MADVISE_FREE or MADVISE_DONTNEED.
> --
> Regards
> Nitesh
>
This is on x86 right? So THP is 2M and MAX_ORDER is 8M.
MAX_ORDER - 3 ==> 1M.
Seems to work out.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-25 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-06 15:50 [RFC][Patch v9 0/6] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 1/6] KVM: Guest free page hinting support Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 23:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 23:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 19:32 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 2/6] KVM: Enables the kernel to isolate guest free pages Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-07 18:30 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 18:30 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 19:23 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-07 19:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-07 21:32 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 21:32 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 21:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-07 22:35 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 22:35 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-08 2:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-08 2:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-08 18:06 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-08 18:06 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-08 18:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-08 19:10 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-08 19:25 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-08 19:25 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-08 19:38 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-08 21:39 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-08 21:39 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-12 19:46 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-12 21:13 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-12 21:13 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-12 21:53 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-12 22:56 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-12 22:56 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-13 11:54 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-13 12:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-13 13:08 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-13 16:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-13 16:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-13 16:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-13 22:54 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-13 22:54 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-13 23:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 3/6] KVM: Enables the kernel to report isolated pages Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 21:30 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 21:30 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 13:23 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 4/6] KVM: Reporting page poisoning value to the host Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 5/6] KVM: Enabling guest free page hinting via static key Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:50 ` [RFC][Patch v9 6/6] KVM: Adding tracepoints for guest free page hinting Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 15:52 ` [RFC][QEMU Patch] KVM: Enable QEMU to free the pages hinted by the guest Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 23:49 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 0:35 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 12:23 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 16:09 ` [RFC][Patch v9 0/6] KVM: Guest Free Page Hinting Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 18:07 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 18:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 18:30 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 18:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 18:40 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 18:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 18:43 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 18:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 18:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-06 19:08 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 19:08 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 19:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-06 19:24 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 19:24 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 20:31 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 20:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 21:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-06 22:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-06 23:12 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 23:12 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-14 16:42 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-14 16:58 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-14 16:58 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-18 15:57 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-19 13:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-19 16:04 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-19 17:38 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-19 17:59 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-20 13:18 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-25 14:27 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-25 15:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2019-03-25 15:42 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 18:00 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 19:07 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-06 22:05 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-06 22:05 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 13:09 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-07 18:45 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 18:45 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 18:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-07 19:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-08 2:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-08 11:53 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-07 21:14 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 21:14 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 21:28 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-07 22:19 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 22:19 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-03-07 19:45 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-03-07 19:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-03-07 18:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-12 19:58 ` David Hildenbrand
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