From: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
To: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jason.zeng@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 09:13:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <90a9af31-304c-e8d5-b17c-0ddb4c98fddb@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65FB6CC1-3AD2-4D6F-9481-500BD7037203@oracle.com>
On 12/12/19 8:07 PM, Liran Alon wrote:
>> I was a little hesitant to change the this to handle 1 GB pages with this patchset at first. I didn't want to break the non-DAX case stuff by doing so.
>
> Why would it affect non-DAX case?
> Your patch should just make hugepage_adjust() to parse page-tables only in case is_zone_device_page(). Otherwise, page tables shouldn’t be parsed.
> i.e. THP merged pages should still be detected by PageTransCompoundMap().
That's what I already do. But if I wanted to make the hugepage_adjust()
function also handle the change to 1 GB, then that code would apply to
THP too. I didn't want to do that without knowing the implications for THP.
>> Specifically, can a THP page be 1 GB, and if so, how can you tell? If you can't tell easily, I could walk the page table for all cases, instead of just zone_device().
>
> I prefer to walk page-tables only for is_zone_device_page().
Is there another way to tell if a THP page is 1 GB? Anyway, this is the
sort of stuff I didn't want to mess around with.
hugepage_adjust() seemed like a reasonable place to get a huge (2MB)
page table entry out of a DAX mapping. I didn't want to proliferate
another special case for upgrading to a larger PTE size (i.e. how
hugetlbfs and THP have separate mechanisms), so I hopped on to the "can
we do a 2MB mapping even though host_mapping_level() didn't say so" case
- which is my interpretation of what huge_adjust() is for.
Barret
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-12 18:22 [PATCH v5 0/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Barret Rhoden
2019-12-12 18:22 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] mm: make dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() externally visible Barret Rhoden
2019-12-13 17:47 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-13 18:13 ` Dan Williams
2019-12-16 17:59 ` Barret Rhoden
2019-12-18 0:18 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-01-15 18:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-12 18:22 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Barret Rhoden
2019-12-12 18:47 ` Liran Alon
2019-12-12 18:49 ` Liran Alon
2019-12-12 19:55 ` Barret Rhoden
2019-12-13 1:07 ` Liran Alon
2019-12-13 14:13 ` Barret Rhoden [this message]
2019-12-13 17:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-13 17:31 ` Liran Alon
2019-12-13 17:50 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-12-13 18:08 ` Liran Alon
2019-12-16 16:05 ` Barret Rhoden
2020-01-07 19:05 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-01-07 19:19 ` Barret Rhoden
2020-01-08 1:20 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-01-08 1:39 ` Dan Williams
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