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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v10 2/3] mm, THP, swap: Check whether THP can be split firstly
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 17:43:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170425214357.GA6841@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170425125658.28684-3-ying.huang@intel.com>

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 08:56:57PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> 
> To swap out THP (Transparent Huage Page), before splitting the THP,
> the swap cluster will be allocated and the THP will be added into the
> swap cache.  But it is possible that the THP cannot be split, so that
> we must delete the THP from the swap cache and free the swap cluster.
> To avoid that, in this patch, whether the THP can be split is checked
> firstly.  The check can only be done racy, but it is good enough for
> most cases.
> 
> With the patch, the swap out throughput improves 3.6% (from about
> 4.16GB/s to about 4.31GB/s) in the vm-scalability swap-w-seq test case
> with 8 processes.  The test is done on a Xeon E5 v3 system.  The swap
> device used is a RAM simulated PMEM (persistent memory) device.  To
> test the sequential swapping out, the test case creates 8 processes,
> which sequentially allocate and write to the anonymous pages until the
> RAM and part of the swap device is used up.
> 
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> [for can_split_huge_page()]

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-25 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-25 12:56 [PATCH -mm -v10 0/3] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out Huang, Ying
2017-04-25 12:56 ` [PATCH -mm -v10 1/3] mm, THP, swap: Delay splitting THP during swap out Huang, Ying
2017-04-27  5:31   ` Minchan Kim
2017-04-27  7:12     ` Huang, Ying
2017-04-27 13:37       ` Johannes Weiner
2017-04-28  8:40       ` Minchan Kim
2017-04-28 12:21         ` Huang, Ying
2017-05-10  1:03           ` Minchan Kim
2017-05-01 10:44         ` Johannes Weiner
2017-05-01 23:53           ` Minchan Kim
2017-05-10 13:56             ` Johannes Weiner
2017-05-10 23:25               ` Minchan Kim
2017-05-11  0:50                 ` Huang, Ying
2017-05-11  4:31                   ` Minchan Kim
2017-05-12  2:21                   ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: swap: unify swap slot free functions to put_swap_page Minchan Kim
2017-05-12  2:21                     ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: swap: move anonymous THP split logic to vmscan Minchan Kim
2017-05-12 16:48                       ` Johannes Weiner
2017-05-12 16:47                     ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: swap: unify swap slot free functions to put_swap_page Johannes Weiner
2017-05-11  1:22                 ` [PATCH -mm -v10 1/3] mm, THP, swap: Delay splitting THP during swap out Minchan Kim
2017-05-11 10:40                   ` Johannes Weiner
2017-05-12  1:34                     ` Minchan Kim
2017-04-25 12:56 ` [PATCH -mm -v10 2/3] mm, THP, swap: Check whether THP can be split firstly Huang, Ying
2017-04-25 21:43   ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2017-04-25 12:56 ` [PATCH -mm -v10 3/3] mm, THP, swap: Enable THP swap optimization only if has compound map Huang, Ying
2017-04-25 21:46   ` Johannes Weiner
2017-04-28 13:16     ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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