From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC V2] mm/vmstat: Add events for HugeTLB migration
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:32:10 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f8a390c-8280-9b04-bf4a-3454d5984bf1@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200930074639.GA26786@linux>
On 09/30/2020 01:16 PM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:30:49AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> - is_thp = PageTransHuge(page) && !PageHuge(page);
>> - nr_subpages = thp_nr_pages(page);
>> + is_thp = false;
>> + is_hugetlb = false;
>> + if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
>> + if (PageHuge(page))
>> + is_hugetlb = true;
>> + else
>> + is_thp = true;
>> + }
>
> Since PageHuge only returns true for hugetlb pages, I think the following is
> more simple?
>
> if (PageHuge(page))
> is_hugetlb = true;
> else if (PageTransHuge(page))
> is_thp = true
Right, it would be simple. But as Mike had mentioned before PageHuge()
check is more expensive than PageTransHuge(). This proposal just tries
not to call PageHuge() unless the page first clears PageTransHuge(),
saving some potential CPU cycles on normal pages.
>
>
> Besides that, it looks good to me:
>
> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-30 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 6:00 [RFC V2] mm/vmstat: Add events for HugeTLB migration Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-30 7:46 ` Oscar Salvador
2020-09-30 10:02 ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2020-09-30 10:33 ` Oscar Salvador
2020-10-01 22:16 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-10-02 12:04 ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-05 2:29 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-10-05 6:05 ` Michal Hocko
2020-10-06 2:56 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-10-06 7:54 ` Michal Hocko
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