From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>,
kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>,
pagupta@redhat.com, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
lcapitulino@redhat.com, wei.w.wang@intel.com,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mm: Introduce Hinted pages
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 22:44:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c185af56-0c85-a84a-b7cf-bbb2b0bc6b5b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f78cccab8273cb759538ef6e088886a507ce438.camel@linux.intel.com>
On 25.07.19 22:37, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 20:32 +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 25.07.19 19:38, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2019-07-25 at 18:48 +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>> On 25.07.19 17:59, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 1:53 AM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 24.07.19 19:03, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>>>>>>> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>>>> Can't we reuse one of the traditional page flags for that, not used
>>>>>> along with buddy pages? E.g., PG_dirty: Pages that were not hinted yet
>>>>>> are dirty.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reusing something like the dirty bit would just be confusing in my
>>>>> opinion. In addition it looks like Xen has also re-purposed PG_dirty
>>>>> already for another purpose.
>>>>
>>>> You brought up waste page management. A dirty bit for unprocessed pages
>>>> fits perfectly in this context. Regarding XEN, as long as it's not used
>>>> along with buddy pages, no issue.
>>>
>>> I would rather not have to dirty all pages that aren't hinted. That starts
>>> to get too invasive. Ideally we only modify pages if we are hinting on
>>> them. That is why I said I didn't like the use of a dirty bit. What we
>>> want is more of a "guaranteed clean" bit.
>>
>> Not sure if that is too invasive, but fair enough.
>>
>>>> FWIW, I don't even thing PG_offline matches to what you are using it
>>>> here for. The pages are not logically offline. They were simply buddy
>>>> pages that were hinted. (I'd even prefer a separate page type for that
>>>> instead - if we cannot simply reuse one of the other flags)
>>>>
>>>> "Offline pages" that are not actually offline in the context of the
>>>> buddy is way more confusing.
>>>
>>> Right now offline and hinted are essentially the same thing since the
>>> effect is identical.
>>
>> No they are not the same thing. Regarding virtio-balloon: You are free
>> to reuse any hinted pages immediate. Offline pages (a.k.a. inflated) you
>> might not generally reuse before deflating.
>
> Okay, so it sounds like your perspective is a bit different than mine. I
> was thinking of it from the perspective of the host OS where in either
> case the guest has set the page as MADV_DONTNEED. You are looking at it
> from the guest perspective where Offline means the guest cannot use it.
>
>>> There may be cases in the future where that is not the case, but with the
>>> current patch set they both result in the pages being evicted from the
>>> guest.
>>>
>>>>> If anything I could probably look at seeing if the PG_private flags
>>>>> are available when a page is in the buddy allocator which I suspect
>>>>> they probably are since the only users I currently see appear to be
>>>>> SLOB and compound pages. Either that or maybe something like PG_head
>>>>> might make sense since once we start allocating them we are popping
>>>>> the head off of the boundary list.
>>>>
>>>> Would also be fine with me.
>>>
>>> Actually I may have found an even better bit if we are going with the
>>> "reporting" name. I could probably use "PG_uptodate" since it looks like
>>> most of its uses are related to filesystems. I will wait till I hear from
>>> Matthew on what bits would be available for use before I update things.
>>
>> Also fine with me. In the optimal case we (in my opinion)
>> a) Don't reuse PG_offline
>> b) Don't use another page type
>
> That is fine. I just need to determine the exact flag to use then. I'll do
> some more research and wait to see if anyone else from MM comunity has
> input or suggestions on the page flag to be used. From what I can tell it
> looks like there are a bunch of flag bits that are unused as far as the
> buddy pages are concerned so I should have a few to choose from.
Right, and I would favor that - at least less hacking with the
kexec/kdump interface :)
You can then go ahead and add
PG_hinted or PG_reported = PG_*younameit* and properly document how it
is being used along with PageBuddy() only.
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-25 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-24 16:54 [PATCH v2 0/5] mm / virtio: Provide support for page hinting Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm: Adjust shuffle code to allow for future coalescing Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 16:58 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm: Move set/get_pcppage_migratetype to mmzone.h Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 17:00 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: Use zone and order instead of free area in free_list manipulators Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 17:03 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] mm: Introduce Hinted pages Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 8:53 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-25 11:46 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-25 11:54 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-25 15:59 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 16:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-25 17:38 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 18:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-25 20:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 20:44 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2019-07-26 12:24 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-26 16:38 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 17:05 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] virtio-balloon: Add support for providing page hints to host Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 19:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 19:07 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-24 19:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 20:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 20:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:44 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-25 14:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:56 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 14:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 17:42 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-25 19:54 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 17:12 ` [PATCH v2 QEMU] virtio-balloon: Provide a interface for "bubble hinting" Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 19:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 20:18 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 20:29 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-24 20:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-29 16:58 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-29 19:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-29 20:21 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-29 20:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-29 21:37 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-29 22:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 20:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 21:14 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 11:57 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-25 14:57 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 21:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 22:03 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 22:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 22:27 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 6:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 11:35 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-25 15:05 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 15:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 16:16 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 17:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 18:25 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-25 20:00 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 20:14 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-24 18:40 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] mm / virtio: Provide support for page hinting Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-24 18:41 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-24 19:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 19:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-07-24 19:54 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-24 21:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 19:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 20:27 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-24 20:38 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-24 21:00 ` Alexander Duyck
2019-07-25 12:08 ` Nitesh Narayan Lal
2019-07-24 20:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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