Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:12:51 +0800 "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> Hi, Andrew, could you help me to check whether the overall design is >> reasonable? >> >> Hi, Johannes and Minchan, Thanks a lot for your review to the first >> step of the THP swap optimization! Could you help me to review the >> second step in this patchset? >> >> Hi, Hugh, Shaohua, Minchan and Rik, could you help me to review the >> swap part of the patchset? Especially [01/12], [02/12], [03/12], >> [04/12], [11/12], and [12/12]. >> >> Hi, Andrea and Kirill, could you help me to review the THP part of the >> patchset? Especially [01/12], [03/12], [07/12], [08/12], [09/12], >> [11/12]. >> >> Hi, Johannes, Michal, could you help me to review the cgroup part of >> the patchset? Especially [08/12], [09/12], and [10/12]. >> >> And for all, Any comment is welcome! > > I guess it's time for a resend. Folks, could we please get some more > review&test going here? Sure. Will resend it ASAP. And Thanks for reminding! >> Because the THP swap writing support patch [06/12] needs to be rebased >> on multipage bvec patchset which hasn't been merged yet. The [06/12] >> in this patchset is just a test patch and will be rewritten later. >> The patchset depends on multipage bvec patchset too. > > Are these dependency issues any simpler now? Ming Lei has sent the v2 of multipage bvec patchset on June 26th. Jens Axboe thinks the patchset will target v4.14. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/26/538 Best Regards, Huang, Ying >> This is the second step of THP (Transparent Huge Page) swap >> optimization. In the first step, the splitting huge page is delayed >> from almost the first step of swapping out to after allocating the >> swap space for the THP and adding the THP into the swap cache. In the >> second step, the splitting is delayed further to after the swapping >> out finished. The plan is to delay splitting THP step by step, >> finally avoid splitting THP for the THP swapping out and swap out/in >> the THP as a whole. >> >> In the patchset, more operations for the anonymous THP reclaiming, >> such as TLB flushing, writing the THP to the swap device, removing the >> THP from the swap cache are batched. So that the performance of >> anonymous THP swapping out are improved. >> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
