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From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
	corbet@lwn.net, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	bp@alien8.de, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, paulmck@kernel.org,
	mchehab+huawei@kernel.org, pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com,
	rdunlap@infradead.org, oneukum@suse.com,
	anshuman.khandual@arm.com, jroedel@suse.de,
	almasrymina@google.com, rientjes@google.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:58:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31eac1d8-69ba-ed2f-8e47-d957d6bb908c@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200915125947.26204-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com>

On 9/15/20 5:59 AM, Muchun Song wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch series will free some vmemmap pages(struct page structures)
> associated with each hugetlbpage when preallocated to save memory.
...
> The mapping of the first page(index 0) and the second page(index 1) is
> unchanged. The remaining 6 pages are all mapped to the same page(index
> 1). So we only need 2 pages for vmemmap area and free 6 pages to the
> buddy system to save memory. Why we can do this? Because the content
> of the remaining 7 pages are usually same except the first page.
> 
> When a hugetlbpage is freed to the buddy system, we should allocate 6
> pages for vmemmap pages and restore the previous mapping relationship.
> 
> If we uses the 1G hugetlbpage, we can save 4095 pages. This is a very
> substantial gain. On our server, run some SPDK applications which will
> use 300GB hugetlbpage. With this feature enabled, we can save 4797MB
> memory.

At a high level this seems like a reasonable optimization for hugetlb
pages.  It is possible because hugetlb pages are 'special' and mostly
handled differently than pages in normal mm paths.

The majority of the new code is hugetlb specific, so it should not be
of too much concern for the general mm code paths.  I'll start looking
closer at the series.  However, if someone has high level concerns please
let us know.  The only 'potential' conflict I am aware of is discussion
about support of double mapping hugetlb pages.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-03/msg02407.html

More care/coordination would be needed to support double mapping with
this new option.  However, this series provides a boot option to disable
freeing of unneeded page structs.
-- 
Mike Kravetz

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-29 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-15 12:59 [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 01/24] mm/memory_hotplug: Move bootmem info registration API to bootmem_info.c Muchun Song
2020-09-29 22:46   ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 02/24] mm/memory_hotplug: Move {get,put}_page_bootmem() " Muchun Song
2020-09-29 23:30   ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 03/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce a new config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP Muchun Song
2020-09-16  2:13   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-29 23:41   ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-30  2:56     ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-30  2:56       ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 04/24] mm/hugetlb: Register bootmem info when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 05/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce nr_free_vmemmap_pages in the struct hstate Muchun Song
2020-09-30 22:41   ` Mike Kravetz
2020-10-01  2:57     ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-10-01  2:57       ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 06/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce pgtable allocation/freeing helpers Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 07/24] mm/hugetlb: Add freeing unused vmemmap pages support for x86 Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 08/24] mm/bootmem_info: Introduce {free,prepare}_vmemmap_page() Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 09/24] x86/mm: Introduce VMEMMAP_SIZE/VMEMMAP_END macro Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 10/24] mm/hugetlb: Free the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 11/24] mm/hugetlb: Add vmemmap_pmd_huge macro for x86 Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 12/24] mm/hugetlb: Defer freeing of hugetlb pages Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 13/24] mm/hugetlb: Allocate the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 14/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce remap_huge_page_pmd_vmemmap helper Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 15/24] mm/hugetlb: Use PG_slab to indicate split pmd Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 16/24] mm/hugetlb: Support freeing vmemmap pages of gigantic page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 17/24] mm/hugetlb: Add a BUILD_BUG_ON to check if struct page size is a power of two Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 18/24] mm/hugetlb: Clear PageHWPoison on the non-error memory page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 19/24] mm/hugetlb: Flush work when dissolving hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 20/24] mm/hugetlb: Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap Muchun Song
2020-09-16  2:10   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-16  2:50     ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-16  2:50       ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 21/24] mm/hugetlb: Merge pte to huge pmd only for gigantic page Muchun Song
2020-09-20  9:59   ` Muchun Song
2020-09-20  9:59     ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 22/24] mm/hugetlb: Implement vmemmap_pmd_mkhuge macro Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 23/24] mm/hugetlb: Gather discrete indexes of tail page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 24/24] mm/hugetlb: Add BUILD_BUG_ON to catch invalid usage of tail struct page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 14:32 ` [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-15 14:53   ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-15 15:28   ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-15 15:28     ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 15:42     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-15 17:32       ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 17:32         ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 17:39         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-15 18:03           ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 18:03             ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 18:15             ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-16  2:45               ` Muchun Song
2020-09-16  2:45                 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-29 21:58 ` Mike Kravetz [this message]
2020-09-30  3:13   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-07 21:12   ` Mike Kravetz
2020-10-09  4:13     ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-10-09  4:13       ` Muchun Song

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