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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	David Nellans <dnellans@nvidia.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/16] 1GB THP support on x86_64
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 18:01:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200903170157.GE14765@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200903165051.GN24045@ziepe.ca>

On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:50:51PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> At least from a RDMA NIC perspective I've heard from a lot of users
> that higher order pages at the DMA level is giving big speed ups too.
> 
> It is basically the same dynamic as CPU TLB, except missing a 'TLB'
> cache in a PCI-E device is dramatically more expensive to refill. With
> 200G and soon 400G networking these misses are a growing problem.
> 
> With HPC nodes now pushing 1TB of actual physical RAM and single
> applications basically using all of it, there is definately some
> meaningful return - if pages can be reliably available.
> 
> At least for HPC where the node returns to an idle state after each
> job and most of the 1TB memory becomes freed up again, it seems more
> believable to me that a large cache of 1G pages could be available?

You may be interested in trying out my current THP patchset:

http://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache.git

It doesn't allocate pages larger than PMD size, but it does allocate pages
*up to* PMD size for the page cache which means that larger pages are
easier to create as larger pages aren't fragmented all over the system.

If someone wants to opportunistically allocate pages larger than PMD
size, I've put some preliminary support in for that, but I've never
tested any of it.  That's not my goal at the moment.

I'm not clear whether these HPC users primarily use page cache or
anonymous memory (with O_DIRECT).  Probably a mixture.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-03 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-02 18:06 [RFC PATCH 00/16] 1GB THP support on x86_64 Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 01/16] mm: add pagechain container for storing multiple pages Zi Yan
2020-09-02 20:29   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-02 20:48     ` Zi Yan
2020-09-03  3:15   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-07 12:22   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-07 15:11     ` Zi Yan
2020-09-09 13:46       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-09 14:15         ` Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 02/16] mm: thp: 1GB anonymous page implementation Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 03/16] mm: proc: add 1GB THP kpageflag Zi Yan
2020-09-09 13:46   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 04/16] mm: thp: 1GB THP copy on write implementation Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 05/16] mm: thp: handling 1GB THP reference bit Zi Yan
2020-09-09 14:09   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-09 14:36     ` Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 06/16] mm: thp: add 1GB THP split_huge_pud_page() function Zi Yan
2020-09-09 14:18   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-09 14:19     ` Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 07/16] mm: stats: make smap stats understand PUD THPs Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 08/16] mm: page_vma_walk: teach it about PMD-mapped PUD THP Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 09/16] mm: thp: 1GB THP support in try_to_unmap() Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 10/16] mm: thp: split 1GB THPs at page reclaim Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 11/16] mm: thp: 1GB THP follow_p*d_page() support Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 12/16] mm: support 1GB THP pagemap support Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 13/16] mm: thp: add a knob to enable/disable 1GB THPs Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 14/16] mm: page_alloc: >=MAX_ORDER pages allocation an deallocation Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 15/16] hugetlb: cma: move cma reserve function to cma.c Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:06 ` [RFC PATCH 16/16] mm: thp: use cma reservation for pud thp allocation Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:40 ` [RFC PATCH 00/16] 1GB THP support on x86_64 Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-02 18:45   ` Zi Yan
2020-09-02 18:48     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-02 19:05       ` Zi Yan
2020-09-02 19:57         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-02 20:29           ` Zi Yan
2020-09-03 16:40             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-03 16:55               ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-03 17:08                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-03  7:32 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-03 16:25   ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-03 16:50     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-03 17:01       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-09-03 17:18         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-03 20:57     ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-03 21:06       ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-04  7:42     ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-04 21:10       ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-07  7:20         ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-08 15:09           ` Zi Yan
2020-09-08 19:58             ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-09  4:01               ` John Hubbard
2020-09-09  7:15               ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-03 14:23 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-09-03 16:30   ` Roman Gushchin
2020-09-08 11:57     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-08 14:05       ` Zi Yan
2020-09-08 14:22         ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-08 15:36           ` Zi Yan
2020-09-08 14:27         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-08 15:50           ` Zi Yan
2020-09-09 12:11           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-09 12:32             ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-09 13:14               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-09 13:27                 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 10:02                   ` William Kucharski
2020-09-08 14:35         ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-08 14:41           ` Rik van Riel
2020-09-08 15:02             ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-09  7:04             ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-09 13:19               ` Rik van Riel
2020-09-09 13:43                 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-09 13:49                   ` Rik van Riel
2020-09-09 13:54                     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10  7:32                   ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-10  8:27                     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 14:21                       ` Zi Yan
2020-09-10 14:34                         ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 14:41                           ` Zi Yan
2020-09-10 15:15                             ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-10 13:32                     ` Rik van Riel
2020-09-10 14:30                       ` Zi Yan
2020-09-09 13:59                 ` Michal Hocko

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