From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
To: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mhocko@suse.com,
shy828301@gmail.com, wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com,
willy@infradead.org, xiang@kernel.org, ying.huang@intel.com,
yuzhao@google.com, surenb@google.com, steven.price@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/6] mm: support large folios swap-in
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:25:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <caf72da8-1f32-4eb4-9935-b49c1efed4c5@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGsJ_4xHaAzOMphFt-0GwtS4f+Vj4cbR+WdX68TSQVo+-WR6rA@mail.gmail.com>
On 18/01/2024 23:54, Barry Song wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 11:25 PM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 18/01/2024 11:10, Barry Song wrote:
>>> On an embedded system like Android, more than half of anon memory is actually
>>> in swap devices such as zRAM. For example, while an app is switched to back-
>>> ground, its most memory might be swapped-out.
>>>
>>> Now we have mTHP features, unfortunately, if we don't support large folios
>>> swap-in, once those large folios are swapped-out, we immediately lose the
>>> performance gain we can get through large folios and hardware optimization
>>> such as CONT-PTE.
>>>
>>> In theory, we don't need to rely on Ryan's swap out patchset[1]. That is to say,
>>> before swap-out, if some memory were normal pages, but when swapping in, we
>>> can also swap-in them as large folios.
>>
>> I think this could also violate MADV_NOHUGEPAGE; if the application has
>> requested that we do not create a THP, then we had better not; it could cause a
>> correctness issue in some circumstances. You would need to pay attention to this
>> vma flag if taking this approach.
>>
>>> But this might require I/O happen at
>>> some random places in swap devices. So we limit the large folios swap-in to
>>> those areas which were large folios before swapping-out, aka, swaps are also
>>> contiguous in hardware.
>>
>> In fact, even this may not be sufficient; it's possible that a contiguous set of
>> base pages (small folios) were allocated to a virtual mapping and all swapped
>> out together - they would likely end up contiguous in the swap file, but should
>> not be swapped back in as a single folio because of this (same reasoning applies
>> to cluster of smaller THPs that you mistake for a larger THP, etc).
>>
>> So you will need to check what THP sizes are enabled and check the VMA
>> suitability regardless; Perhaps you are already doing this - I haven't looked at
>> the code yet.
>
> we are actually re-using your alloc_anon_folio() by adding a parameter
> to make it
> support both do_anon_page and do_swap_page,
>
> -static struct folio *alloc_anon_folio(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> +static struct folio *alloc_anon_folio(struct vm_fault *vmf,
> + bool (*pte_range_check)(pte_t *, int))
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
> @@ -4190,7 +4270,7 @@ static struct folio *alloc_anon_folio(struct
> vm_fault *vmf)
> order = highest_order(orders);
> while (orders) {
> addr = ALIGN_DOWN(vmf->address, PAGE_SIZE << order);
> - if (pte_range_none(pte + pte_index(addr), 1 << order))
> + if (pte_range_check(pte + pte_index(addr), 1 << order))
> break;
> order = next_order(&orders, order);
> }
> @@ -4269,7 +4349,7 @@ static vm_fault_t do_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
> goto oom;
> /* Returns NULL on OOM or ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN) if we must retry the fault */
> - folio = alloc_anon_folio(vmf);
> + folio = alloc_anon_folio(vmf, pte_range_none);
> if (IS_ERR(folio))
> return 0;
> if (!folio)
> --
>
> I assume this has checked everything?
Ahh yes, very good. In that case you can disregard what I said; its already covered.
I notice that this series appears as a reply to my series. I'm not sure what the
normal convention is, but I expect more people would see it if you posted it as
its own thread?
>
>>
>> I'll aim to review the code in the next couple of weeks.
>
> nice, thanks!
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan
>>
>>> On the other hand, in OPPO's product, we've deployed
>>> anon large folios on millions of phones[2]. we enhanced zsmalloc and zRAM to
>>> compress and decompress large folios as a whole, which help improve compression
>>> ratio and decrease CPU consumption significantly. In zsmalloc and zRAM we can
>>> save large objects whose original size are 64KiB for example. So it is also a
>>> better choice for us to only swap-in large folios for those compressed large
>>> objects as a large folio can be decompressed all together.
>>>
>>> Note I am moving my previous "arm64: mm: swap: support THP_SWAP on hardware
>>> with MTE" to this series as it might help review.
>>>
>>> [1] [PATCH v3 0/4] Swap-out small-sized THP without splitting
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20231025144546.577640-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/
>>> [2] OnePlusOSS / android_kernel_oneplus_sm8550
>>> https://github.com/OnePlusOSS/android_kernel_oneplus_sm8550/tree/oneplus/sm8550_u_14.0.0_oneplus11
>>>
>>> Barry Song (2):
>>> arm64: mm: swap: support THP_SWAP on hardware with MTE
>>> mm: rmap: weaken the WARN_ON in __folio_add_anon_rmap()
>>>
>>> Chuanhua Han (4):
>>> mm: swap: introduce swap_nr_free() for batched swap_free()
>>> mm: swap: make should_try_to_free_swap() support large-folio
>>> mm: support large folios swapin as a whole
>>> mm: madvise: don't split mTHP for MADV_PAGEOUT
>>>
>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 21 ++----
>>> arch/arm64/mm/mteswap.c | 42 ++++++++++++
>>> include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 10 +++
>>> include/linux/huge_mm.h | 12 ----
>>> include/linux/pgtable.h | 62 ++++++++++++++++-
>>> include/linux/swap.h | 6 ++
>>> mm/madvise.c | 48 ++++++++++++++
>>> mm/memory.c | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>> mm/page_io.c | 2 +-
>>> mm/rmap.c | 5 +-
>>> mm/swap_slots.c | 2 +-
>>> mm/swapfile.c | 29 ++++++++
>>> 12 files changed, 301 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>
> Thanks
> Barry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-19 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-25 14:45 [PATCH v3 0/4] Swap-out small-sized THP without splitting Ryan Roberts
2023-10-25 14:45 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: swap: Remove CLUSTER_FLAG_HUGE from swap_cluster_info:flags Ryan Roberts
2024-02-22 10:19 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-02-22 10:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-02-26 17:41 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-27 17:10 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-27 19:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-02-28 9:37 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-28 12:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-02-28 14:57 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-28 15:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-02-28 15:18 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-01 16:27 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-01 16:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-03-01 16:44 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-01 17:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-01 17:14 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-01 17:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-01 17:06 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-04 4:52 ` Barry Song
2024-03-04 5:42 ` Barry Song
2024-03-05 7:41 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-01 16:31 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-01 16:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-04 16:03 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-04 17:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-04 18:38 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-04 20:50 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-04 21:55 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-04 22:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-04 22:34 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-05 6:11 ` Huang, Ying
2024-03-05 8:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-03-05 8:46 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-28 13:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-02-28 14:24 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-28 14:59 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-10-25 14:45 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: swap: Remove struct percpu_cluster Ryan Roberts
2023-10-25 14:45 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] mm: swap: Simplify ssd behavior when scanner steals entry Ryan Roberts
2023-10-25 14:45 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] mm: swap: Swap-out small-sized THP without splitting Ryan Roberts
2023-10-30 8:18 ` Huang, Ying
2023-10-30 13:59 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-10-31 8:12 ` Huang, Ying
2023-11-03 11:42 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-02 7:40 ` Barry Song
2023-11-02 10:21 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-02 22:36 ` Barry Song
2023-11-03 11:31 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-03 13:57 ` Steven Price
2023-11-04 9:34 ` Barry Song
2023-11-06 10:12 ` Steven Price
2023-11-06 21:39 ` Barry Song
2023-11-08 11:51 ` Steven Price
2023-11-07 12:46 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-07 18:05 ` Barry Song
2023-11-08 11:23 ` Barry Song
2023-11-08 20:20 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-08 21:04 ` Barry Song
2023-11-04 5:49 ` Barry Song
2024-02-05 9:51 ` Barry Song
2024-02-05 12:14 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-18 23:40 ` Barry Song
2024-02-20 20:03 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-05 9:00 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-03-05 9:54 ` Barry Song
2024-03-05 10:44 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-27 12:28 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-27 13:37 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-28 2:46 ` Barry Song
2024-02-22 7:05 ` Barry Song
2024-02-22 10:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-02-23 9:46 ` Barry Song
2024-02-27 12:05 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-28 1:23 ` Barry Song
2024-02-28 9:34 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-02-28 23:18 ` Barry Song
2024-02-28 15:57 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-29 7:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] " Barry Song
2023-11-29 12:06 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-29 20:38 ` Barry Song
2024-01-18 11:10 ` [PATCH RFC 0/6] mm: support large folios swap-in Barry Song
2024-01-18 11:10 ` [PATCH RFC 1/6] arm64: mm: swap: support THP_SWAP on hardware with MTE Barry Song
2024-01-26 23:14 ` Chris Li
2024-02-26 2:59 ` Barry Song
2024-01-18 11:10 ` [PATCH RFC 2/6] mm: swap: introduce swap_nr_free() for batched swap_free() Barry Song
2024-01-26 23:17 ` Chris Li
2024-02-26 4:47 ` Barry Song
2024-01-18 11:10 ` [PATCH RFC 3/6] mm: swap: make should_try_to_free_swap() support large-folio Barry Song
2024-01-26 23:22 ` Chris Li
2024-01-18 11:10 ` [PATCH RFC 4/6] mm: support large folios swapin as a whole Barry Song
2024-01-27 19:53 ` Chris Li
2024-02-26 7:29 ` Barry Song
2024-01-27 20:06 ` Chris Li
2024-02-26 7:31 ` Barry Song
2024-01-18 11:10 ` [PATCH RFC 5/6] mm: rmap: weaken the WARN_ON in __folio_add_anon_rmap() Barry Song
2024-01-18 11:54 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-01-23 6:49 ` Barry Song
2024-01-29 3:25 ` Chris Li
2024-01-29 10:06 ` David Hildenbrand
2024-01-29 16:31 ` Chris Li
2024-02-26 5:05 ` Barry Song
2024-04-06 23:27 ` Barry Song
2024-01-27 23:41 ` Chris Li
2024-01-18 11:10 ` [PATCH RFC 6/6] mm: madvise: don't split mTHP for MADV_PAGEOUT Barry Song
2024-01-29 2:15 ` Chris Li
2024-02-26 6:39 ` Barry Song
2024-02-27 12:22 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-27 22:39 ` Barry Song
2024-02-27 14:40 ` Ryan Roberts
2024-02-27 18:57 ` Barry Song
2024-02-28 3:49 ` Barry Song
2024-01-18 15:25 ` [PATCH RFC 0/6] mm: support large folios swap-in Ryan Roberts
2024-01-18 23:54 ` Barry Song
2024-01-19 13:25 ` Ryan Roberts [this message]
2024-01-27 14:27 ` Barry Song
2024-01-29 9:05 ` Huang, Ying
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