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While this is superficially unfortunate, it represents >> ranges that were simply skipped without the patch. As a result >> of the scanning and hinting faults, many more pages were also >> migrated but as the time to completion is reduced, the overhead >> is offset by the gain. > > Nice! I've applied your series to tip:sched/core with a few non-functional > edits to comment/changelog formatting/clarity. > > Btw., was any previous analysis done on the size of the pids_active[] hash > and the hash collision rate? > Hello Ingo, I did test to understand the behaviour threaded workloads relation to pids_active[], and that there is more spread of bits set etc, but not actually from hash_collision point of view since it would work better for workloads that does not create multiple threads quickly (thus we have sparse PIDs) as well as normal case where we have almost continuous PIDS. But I also did not try to increase size of individual pids_active more than 64 for the same reasoning of Mel that at the most we endup doing cross PTE updates. Perhaps I can experiment when I come across workloads that have 512/1000s of threads to refine these cross PTE updates further. However, I have tried increasing history (PeterZ's patch) (i.e., increasing array size of pids_active[]) to get a better VMA candidate for PTE update in https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1693287931.git.raghavendra.kt@amd.com/T/ to handle what Mel suggested in other email. viz., 1. Task-active 2. Multiple tasks active 3. Any task active 4. Inactive Thanks and Regards - Raghu