From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [RFC PATCH 03/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce a new config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:56:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMZfGtWZ739Qd+9WZYtBTbQLjEqJa2BRa=5NBP9QMJQjsJS0mg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07e7d497-e800-be28-dfea-047579c3b27d@oracle.com>
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 7:41 AM Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/15/20 5:59 AM, Muchun Song wrote:
> > The purpose of introducing HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is to configure
> > whether to enable the feature of freeing unused vmemmap associated
> > with HugeTLB pages.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> > ---
> > fs/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> > index 976e8b9033c4..61e9c08096ca 100644
> > --- a/fs/Kconfig
> > +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> > @@ -245,6 +245,21 @@ config HUGETLBFS
> > config HUGETLB_PAGE
> > def_bool HUGETLBFS
> >
> > +config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
> > + bool "Free unused vmemmap associated with HugeTLB pages"
> > + default n
> > + depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
> > + depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> > + depends on HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
> > + help
> > + There are many struct page structure associated with each HugeTLB
> > + page. But we only use a few struct page structure. In this case,
> > + it waste some memory. It is better to free the unused struct page
> > + structures to buddy system which can save some memory. For
> > + architectures that support it, say Y here.
> > +
> > + If unsure, say N.
> > +
>
> I could be wrong, but I believe the convention is introduce the config
> option at the same time code which depends on the option is introduced.
> Therefore, it might be better to combine with the next patch.
Yeah, great. Will do that. Thanks.
>
> Also, it looks like most of your development was done on x86. Should
> this option be limited to x86 only for now?
Now only the x86 has the HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE option. So
maybe this is enough :)
> --
> Mike Kravetz
--
Yours,
Muchun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-30 2:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ 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 ` Muchun Song [this message]
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
2020-09-15 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
2020-09-15 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
2020-09-15 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 15:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-15 17:32 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 17:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-15 18:03 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 18:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-16 2:45 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-29 21:58 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-30 3:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-07 21:12 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-10-09 4:13 ` [External] " Muchun Song
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