Hi Hugh, On 01/29/2013 01:03 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Here's first steps towards huge pages in page cache. The intend of the work is get code ready to enable transparent huge page cache for the most simple fs -- ramfs. It's not yet near feature-complete. It only provides basic infrastructure. At the moment we can read, write and truncate file on ramfs with huge pages in page cache. The most interesting part, mmap(), is not yet there. For now we split huge page on mmap() attempt. I can't say that I see whole picture. I'm not sure if I understand locking model around split_huge_page(). Probably, not. Andrea, could you check if it looks correct? Next steps (not necessary in this order): - mmap(); - migration (?); - collapse; - stats, knobs, etc.; - tmpfs/shmem enabling; - ... Kirill A. Shutemov (16): block: implement add_bdi_stat() mm: implement zero_huge_user_segment and friends mm: drop actor argument of do_generic_file_read() radix-tree: implement preload for multiple contiguous elements thp, mm: basic defines for transparent huge page cache thp, mm: rewrite add_to_page_cache_locked() to support huge pages thp, mm: rewrite delete_from_page_cache() to support huge pages thp, mm: locking tail page is a bug thp, mm: handle tail pages in page_cache_get_speculative() thp, mm: implement grab_cache_huge_page_write_begin() thp, mm: naive support of thp in generic read/write routines thp, libfs: initial support of thp in simple_read/write_begin/write_end thp: handle file pages in split_huge_page() thp, mm: truncate support for transparent huge page cache thp, mm: split huge page on mmap file page ramfs: enable transparent huge page cache fs/libfs.c | 54 +++++++++--- fs/ramfs/inode.c | 6 +- include/linux/backing-dev.h | 10 +++ include/linux/huge_mm.h | 8 ++ include/linux/mm.h | 15 ++++ include/linux/pagemap.h | 14 ++- include/linux/radix-tree.h | 3 + lib/radix-tree.c | 32 +++++-- mm/filemap.c | 204 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- mm/huge_memory.c | 62 +++++++++++-- mm/memory.c | 22 +++++ mm/truncate.c | 12 +++ 12 files changed, 375 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)Interesting. I was starting to think about Transparent Huge Pagecache a few months ago, but then got washed away by incoming waves as usual. Certainly I don't have a line of code to show for it; but my first impression of your patches is that we have very different ideas of where to start. Perhaps that's good complementarity, or perhaps I'll disagree with your approach. I'll be taking a look at yours in the coming days, and trying to summon back up my own ideas to summarize them for you. Perhaps I was naive to imagine it, but I did intend to start out generically, independent of filesystem; but content to narrow down on tmpfs alone where it gets hard to support the others (writeback springs to mind). khugepaged would be migrating little pages into huge pages, where it saw that the mmaps of the file would benefit (and for testing I would hack mmap alignment choice to favour it). I had arrived at a conviction that the first thing to change was the way that tail pages of a THP are refcounted, that it had been a mistake to use the compound page method of holding the THP together. But I'll have to enter a trance now to recall the arguments ;)
One offline question, do you have any idea hugetlbfs pages support swapping?
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