From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: "Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)" <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>,
corbet@lwn.net, mike.kravetz@oracle.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
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Subject: Re: [External] RE: [PATCH v4 00/21] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:45:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d04fdbf6c955054fddb152c78bc53db6@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMZfGtWNa=abZdN6HmWE1VBFHfGCbsW9D0zrN-F5zrhn6s=ErA@mail.gmail.com>
On 2020-11-17 17:29, Muchun Song wrote:
> Now for the 2MB HugrTLB page, we only free 6 vmemmap pages.
> But your words woke me up. Maybe we really can free 7 vmemmap
> pages. In this case, we can see 8 of the 512 struct page structures
> has beed set PG_head flag. If we can adjust compound_head()
> slightly and make compound_head() return the real head struct
> page when the parameter is the tail struct page but with PG_head
> flag set. I will start an investigation and a test.
I would not overcomplicate things at this stage, but rather keep it
simple as the code is already tricky enough(without counting the LOC
thatvit adds).
We can always build on top later on in order to improve things.
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-17 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-13 10:59 [PATCH v4 00/21] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 01/21] mm/memory_hotplug: Move bootmem info registration API to bootmem_info.c Muchun Song
2020-11-16 13:50 ` Oscar Salvador
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 02/21] mm/memory_hotplug: Move {get,put}_page_bootmem() " Muchun Song
2020-11-16 13:52 ` Oscar Salvador
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 03/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce a new config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP Muchun Song
2020-11-18 22:38 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-11-19 2:57 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 04/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce nr_free_vmemmap_pages in the struct hstate Muchun Song
2020-11-16 13:33 ` Oscar Salvador
2020-11-16 15:40 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-18 22:54 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-11-18 23:48 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-11-19 3:00 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 05/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce pgtable allocation/freeing helpers Muchun Song
2020-11-17 15:06 ` Oscar Salvador
2020-11-17 15:29 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-19 6:17 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-19 23:21 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-11-20 2:52 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-19 23:37 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 06/21] mm/bootmem_info: Introduce {free,prepare}_vmemmap_page() Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 07/21] mm/bootmem_info: Combine bootmem info and type into page->freelist Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 08/21] mm/hugetlb: Initialize page table lock for vmemmap Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 09/21] mm/hugetlb: Free the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-11-17 9:54 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-11-17 10:26 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-18 3:21 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 10/21] mm/hugetlb: Defer freeing of hugetlb pages Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 11/21] mm/hugetlb: Allocate the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 12/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce remap_huge_page_pmd_vmemmap helper Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 13/21] mm/hugetlb: Use PG_slab to indicate split pmd Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 14/21] mm/hugetlb: Support freeing vmemmap pages of gigantic page Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 15/21] mm/hugetlb: Set the PageHWPoison to the raw error page Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 16/21] mm/hugetlb: Flush work when dissolving hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 17/21] mm/hugetlb: Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 18/21] mm/hugetlb: Merge pte to huge pmd only for gigantic page Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 19/21] mm/hugetlb: Gather discrete indexes of tail page Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 20/21] mm/hugetlb: Add BUILD_BUG_ON to catch invalid usage of tail struct page Muchun Song
2020-11-13 10:59 ` [PATCH v4 21/21] mm/hugetlb: Disable freeing vmemmap if struct page size is not power of two Muchun Song
2020-11-17 10:15 ` [PATCH v4 00/21] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-11-17 10:49 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-11-17 11:07 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2020-11-17 16:29 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-17 19:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-11-18 2:43 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-17 19:45 ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2020-11-18 3:27 ` Muchun Song
2020-11-18 3:27 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
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