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* [PATCH 0/5] fix up /proc/$pid/smaps to not split huge pages
@ 2011-02-09 19:54 ` Dave Hansen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 56+ messages in thread
From: Dave Hansen @ 2011-02-09 19:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: linux-mm, Michael J Wolf, Andrea Arcangeli, Dave Hansen

Andrea, after playing with this for a week or two, I'm quite a bit
more confident that it's not causing much harm.  Seems a fairly
low-risk feature.  Could we stick these somewhere so they'll at
least hit linux-next for the 2.6.40 cycle perhaps?

--

I'm working on some more reports that transparent huge pages and
KSM do not play nicely together.  Basically, whenever THP's are
present along with KSM, there is a lot of attrition over time,
and we do not see much overall progress keeping THP's around:

	http://sr71.net/~dave/ibm/038_System_Anonymous_Pages.png

(That's Karl Rister's graph, thanks Karl!)

However, I realized that we do not currently have a nice way to
find out where individual THP's might be on the system.  We
have an overall count, but no way of telling which processes or
VMAs they might be in.

I started to implement this in the /proc/$pid/smaps code, but
quickly realized that the lib/pagewalk.c code unconditionally
splits THPs up.  This set reworks that code a bit and, in the
end, gives you a per-map count of the numbers of huge pages.
It also makes it possible for page walks to _not_ split THPs.


^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 56+ messages in thread
* [PATCH 0/5] fix up /proc/$pid/smaps to not split huge pages
@ 2011-02-22  1:53 Dave Hansen
  2011-02-22  1:53   ` Dave Hansen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 56+ messages in thread
From: Dave Hansen @ 2011-02-22  1:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: linux-mm, Michael J Wolf, Andrea Arcangeli, akpm, Dave Hansen

Andrew, these have gone through a couple of review rounds.  Can
they have a spin in -mm?

--

I'm working on some more reports that transparent huge pages and
KSM do not play nicely together.  Basically, whenever THP's are
present along with KSM, there is a lot of attrition over time,
and we do not see much overall progress keeping THP's around:

	http://sr71.net/~dave/ibm/038_System_Anonymous_Pages.png

(That's Karl Rister's graph, thanks Karl!)

However, I realized that we do not currently have a nice way to
find out where individual THP's might be on the system.  We
have an overall count, but no way of telling which processes or
VMAs they might be in.

I started to implement this in the /proc/$pid/smaps code, but
quickly realized that the lib/pagewalk.c code unconditionally
splits THPs up.  This set reworks that code a bit and, in the
end, gives you a per-map count of the numbers of huge pages.
It also makes it possible for page walks to _not_ split THPs.


^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 56+ messages in thread

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2011-02-09 19:54 [PATCH 0/5] fix up /proc/$pid/smaps to not split huge pages Dave Hansen
2011-02-09 19:54 ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-09 19:54 ` [PATCH 1/5] pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary Dave Hansen
2011-02-09 19:54   ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-10 11:11   ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 11:11     ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 13:19     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-10 13:19       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-10 13:34       ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 13:34         ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-09 19:54 ` [PATCH 2/5] break out smaps_pte_entry() from smaps_pte_range() Dave Hansen
2011-02-09 19:54   ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-10 11:15   ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 11:15     ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-09 19:54 ` [PATCH 3/5] pass pte size argument in to smaps_pte_entry() Dave Hansen
2011-02-09 19:54   ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-10 11:16   ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 11:16     ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-09 19:54 ` [PATCH 4/5] teach smaps_pte_range() about THP pmds Dave Hansen
2011-02-09 19:54   ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-10 11:17   ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 11:17     ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 18:08   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-10 18:08     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-10 19:32     ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-10 19:32       ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-09 19:54 ` [PATCH 5/5] have smaps show transparent huge pages Dave Hansen
2011-02-09 19:54   ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-10 11:20   ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 11:20     ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 15:01     ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-10 15:01       ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-10 15:09       ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 15:09         ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-10 18:09         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-10 18:09           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-10 18:20           ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-10 18:20             ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-10 18:39             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-10 18:39               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-09 21:24 ` [PATCH 0/5] fix up /proc/$pid/smaps to not split " Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-09 21:24   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-20 21:54   ` David Rientjes
2011-02-20 21:54     ` David Rientjes
2011-02-15 16:55 ` Eric B Munson
2011-02-15 17:01   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-15 17:01     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-15 17:05     ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-15 17:05       ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-15 18:00       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-15 18:00         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22  1:53 Dave Hansen
2011-02-22  1:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] break out smaps_pte_entry() from smaps_pte_range() Dave Hansen
2011-02-22  1:53   ` Dave Hansen
2011-02-22 21:21   ` David Rientjes
2011-02-22 21:21     ` David Rientjes
2011-02-23 15:30   ` Eric B Munson

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