On 10/12/21 9:50 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 09:06:37AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Can we please just get proper pagecache THP (through folios) merged
instead of piling hacks over hacks here? The whole readonly THP already
was more than painful enough due to all the hacks involved.
This was my initial reaction too.
But read the patches. They're nothing to do with the implementation of
THP / folios in the page cache. They're all to make sure that mappings
are PMD aligned.
Hi, Matthew
In fact, we had thought about realizing this by handling page cache
directly. And then, we found that we just need to align the mapping
address and make khugepaged can scan these 'mm_struct' base on
READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS.
I think there's a lot to criticise in the patches (eg, a system-wide
setting is probably a bad idea. and a lot of this stuff seems to
At the beginning, we don't introduce the new sysfs interface, just
re-use 'transparent_hugepage/enabled'. But In some production system, they
disable the THP directly, especially those applications that are
sensitive to THP. So, Considering these scenarios, we had to design a
new sysfs interface ('transparent_hugepage/hugetext_enabled').
And if you have other idea, we are willing to take to improve these patches.
Thanks!
be fixing userspace bugs in the kernel). But let's criticise what's
actually in the patches, because these are problems that exist regardless
of RO_THP vs folios.
