From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>, Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>, Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>, Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>, Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>, Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/16] huge tmpfs: fcntl(fd, F_HUGEPAGE) and fcntl(fd, F_NOHUGEPAGE) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 21:34:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <caf82af1-1412-c8d7-e622-4f391689f8fe@google.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20210804140805.vpuerwaiqtcvc5or@box.shutemov.name> On Wed, 4 Aug 2021, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 12:48:33AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > Add support for fcntl(fd, F_HUGEPAGE) and fcntl(fd, F_NOHUGEPAGE), to > > select hugeness per file: useful to override the default hugeness of the > > shmem mount, when occasionally needing to store a hugepage file in a > > smallpage mount or vice versa. > > Hm. But why is the new MFD_* needed if the fcntl() can do the same. That I've just addressed in the MFD_HUGEPAGE 07/16 thread. > > > These fcntls just specify whether or not to try for huge pages when > > allocating to the object later: F_HUGEPAGE does not touch small pages > > already allocated (though khugepaged may do so when the file is mapped > > afterwards), F_NOHUGEPAGE does not split huge pages already allocated. > > > > Why fcntl? Because it's already in use (for sealing) on memfds; and I'm > > anxious to keep this simple, just applying it to whole files: fallocate, > > madvise and posix_fadvise each involve a range, which would need a new > > kind of tree attached to the inode for proper support. > > Most of fadvise() operations ignore the range. I like fadvise() because > it's less prescriptive: kernel is free to ignore it. As to ignoring the range, yes, I see now that some do; and I'm relieved to see "Len == 0 means as much as possible", that's great, I was afraid of compat bugs over 0xffy numbers for the len. And we would want, not to ignore the range, but insist on offset 0, len 0 for now, if there's any intention (not mine) of extending it to ranges in the future. As to ignoring the prescription, that's just a matter of how we describe it in the manpage, no matter whether it's fadvise() or fcntl(). And in the 07/16 thread you also said: > > If a tunable needed, I would rather go with fadvise(). It would operate on > a couple of bits per struct file and they get translated into VM_HUGEPAGE > and VM_NOHUGEPAGE on mmap(). Not so sure about that detail: the point here is to decide what kind of allocations to try for, before the file is mmap()ed; and it is the file (the underlying object) that I want to condition here, rather than the struct file of who has it open at the time, or their mmap()s. But adding the flags into the vm_flags on mmap(): that's an interesting idea, I haven't played with that at all. Offhand, I don't think it will give different allocation results from what I'm already doing, but might affect what is shown by default in /proc/<pid>/smaps. > > Later if needed fadvise() implementation may be extended to track > requested ranges. But initially it can be simple. I still prefer fcntl() myself, but we can go with either: what I'd like to hear is the preference of linux-fsdevel and linux-api people. Aside from the unused offset+len, my main problem with fadvise() is that... it doesn't exist. It's posix_fadvise() or fadvise64() or fadvise64_64(), and all its good advices are POSIX_MADV_whatever. Are we comfortable now adding LINUX_MADV_HUGEPAGE, LINUX_MADV_NOHUGEPAGE? I find myself singing 64 64 Zoo Lane. Hugh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-06 4:35 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2021-07-30 7:22 [PATCH 00/16] tmpfs: HUGEPAGE and MEM_LOCK fcntls and memfds Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 7:25 ` [PATCH 01/16] huge tmpfs: fix fallocate(vanilla) advance over huge pages Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 21:36 ` Yang Shi 2021-08-01 3:38 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-08-02 20:36 ` Yang Shi 2021-07-30 7:28 ` [PATCH 02/16] huge tmpfs: fix split_huge_page() after FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 23:48 ` Yang Shi 2021-07-30 7:30 ` [PATCH 03/16] huge tmpfs: remove shrinklist addition from shmem_setattr() Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 21:50 ` Yang Shi 2021-07-30 7:36 ` [PATCH 04/16] huge tmpfs: revert shmem's use of transhuge_vma_enabled() Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 21:56 ` Yang Shi 2021-08-01 4:01 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-08-02 20:39 ` Yang Shi 2021-07-30 7:39 ` [PATCH 05/16] huge tmpfs: move shmem_huge_enabled() upwards Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 21:57 ` Yang Shi 2021-07-30 7:42 ` [PATCH 06/16] huge tmpfs: shmem_is_huge(vma, inode, index) Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 23:34 ` Yang Shi 2021-08-01 5:22 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-08-01 5:37 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-08-02 21:14 ` Yang Shi 2021-08-04 8:28 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-08-04 19:01 ` Yang Shi 2021-08-06 5:21 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-08-06 17:41 ` Yang Shi 2021-08-05 23:04 ` Yang Shi 2021-08-06 5:43 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-08-06 17:57 ` Yang Shi 2021-08-12 18:19 ` Yang Shi 2021-07-30 7:45 ` [PATCH 07/16] memfd: memfd_create(name, MFD_HUGEPAGE) for shmem huge pages Hugh Dickins 2021-08-04 14:03 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2021-08-06 3:33 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 7:48 ` [PATCH 08/16] huge tmpfs: fcntl(fd, F_HUGEPAGE) and fcntl(fd, F_NOHUGEPAGE) Hugh Dickins 2021-08-04 14:08 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2021-08-06 4:34 ` Hugh Dickins [this message] 2021-07-30 7:51 ` [PATCH 09/16] huge tmpfs: decide stat.st_blksize by shmem_is_huge() Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 23:40 ` Yang Shi 2021-07-30 7:55 ` [PATCH 10/16] tmpfs: fcntl(fd, F_MEM_LOCK) to memlock a tmpfs file Hugh Dickins 2021-08-03 1:38 ` Matthew Wilcox 2021-08-04 9:15 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 7:57 ` [PATCH 11/16] tmpfs: fcntl(fd, F_MEM_LOCKED) to test if memlocked Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 8:00 ` [PATCH 12/16] tmpfs: refuse memlock when fallocated beyond i_size Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 8:03 ` [PATCH 13/16] mm: bool user_shm_lock(loff_t size, struct ucounts *) Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 8:06 ` [PATCH 14/16] mm: user_shm_lock(,,getuc) and user_shm_unlock(,,putuc) Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 8:09 ` [PATCH 15/16] tmpfs: permit changing size of memlocked file Hugh Dickins 2021-07-30 8:13 ` [PATCH 16/16] memfd: memfd_create(name, MFD_MEM_LOCK) for memlocked shmem Hugh Dickins
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