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From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	"Kleen, Andi" <andi.kleen@intel.com>,
	"Lu, Aaron" <aaron.lu@intel.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:59:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1474300762.3916.103.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160919071153.GB4083@bbox>

On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 16:11 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:52:27PM +0000, Chen, Tim C wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > - Avoid CPU time for splitting, collapsing THP across swap out/in.
> > > Yes, if you want, please give us how bad it is.
> > > 
> > It could be pretty bad.  In an experiment with THP turned on and we
> > enter swap, 50% of the cpu are spent in the page compaction path.  
> It's page compaction overhead, especially, pageblock_pfn_to_page.
> Why is it related to overhead THP split for swapout?
> I don't understand.

Today you have to split a large page into 4K pages to swap it out.
Then after you swap in all the 4K pages, you have to re-compact
them back into a large page.

If you can swap the large page out as a contiguous unit, and swap
it back in as a single large page, the splitting and re-compaction
back into a large page can be avoided.

Tim

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-19 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-07 16:45 [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out Huang, Ying
2016-09-07 16:46 ` [PATCH -v3 01/10] mm, swap: Make swap cluster size same of THP size on x86_64 Huang, Ying
2016-09-08  5:45   ` Anshuman Khandual
2016-09-08 18:07     ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-19 17:09     ` Johannes Weiner
2016-09-20  2:01       ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-22 19:25         ` Johannes Weiner
2016-09-08  8:21   ` Anshuman Khandual
2016-09-08 11:03   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-08 17:39     ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-08 11:07   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-08 17:23     ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-07 16:46 ` [PATCH -v3 02/10] mm, memcg: Add swap_cgroup_iter iterator Huang, Ying
2016-09-07 16:46 ` [PATCH -v3 03/10] mm, memcg: Support to charge/uncharge multiple swap entries Huang, Ying
2016-09-08  5:46   ` Anshuman Khandual
2016-09-08  8:28   ` Anshuman Khandual
2016-09-08 18:15     ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-07 16:46 ` [PATCH -v3 04/10] mm, THP, swap: Add swap cluster allocate/free functions Huang, Ying
2016-09-08  5:49   ` Anshuman Khandual
2016-09-08  8:30   ` Anshuman Khandual
2016-09-08 18:14     ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-07 16:46 ` [PATCH -v3 05/10] mm, THP, swap: Add get_huge_swap_page() Huang, Ying
2016-09-08 11:13   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-08 17:22     ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-07 16:46 ` [PATCH -v3 06/10] mm, THP, swap: Support to clear SWAP_HAS_CACHE for huge page Huang, Ying
2016-09-07 16:46 ` [PATCH -v3 07/10] mm, THP, swap: Support to add/delete THP to/from swap cache Huang, Ying
2016-09-08  9:00   ` Anshuman Khandual
2016-09-08 18:10     ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-07 16:46 ` [PATCH -v3 08/10] mm, THP: Add can_split_huge_page() Huang, Ying
2016-09-08 11:17   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-09-08 17:02     ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-07 16:46 ` [PATCH -v3 09/10] mm, THP, swap: Support to split THP in swap cache Huang, Ying
2016-09-07 16:46 ` [PATCH -v3 10/10] mm, THP, swap: Delay splitting THP during swap out Huang, Ying
2016-09-09  5:43 ` [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out Minchan Kim
2016-09-09 15:53   ` Tim Chen
2016-09-09 20:35   ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-13  6:13     ` Minchan Kim
2016-09-13  6:40       ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-13  7:05         ` Minchan Kim
2016-09-13  8:53           ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-13  9:16             ` Minchan Kim
2016-09-13 23:52               ` Chen, Tim C
2016-09-19  7:11                 ` Minchan Kim
2016-09-19 15:59                   ` Tim Chen [this message]
2016-09-18  1:53               ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-19  7:08                 ` Minchan Kim
2016-09-20  2:54                   ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-20  5:06                     ` Minchan Kim
2016-09-20  5:28                       ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-13 14:35             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2016-09-19 17:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2016-09-22 22:56 ` Shaohua Li
2016-09-22 23:49   ` Chen, Tim C
2016-09-22 23:53     ` Andi Kleen
2016-09-23  0:38   ` Rik van Riel
2016-09-23  2:32     ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-25 19:18       ` Shaohua Li
2016-09-26  1:06         ` Minchan Kim
2016-09-26  3:25         ` Huang, Ying
2016-09-23  2:12   ` Huang, Ying

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