Hi Konrad,
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 02:22:49PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> Thank you for loking at this from the xen side. The interesting thing
> is that I believe the _PAGE_PAT (or _PAGE_PSE) is actually used on
> Xen on PTEs. It is used to mark the pages WC. <sigh>
Oops, I'm using _PAGE_PSE too on the pte, but only when it's unmapped.
static inline int pte_numa(pte_t pte)
{
return (pte_flags(pte) &
(_PAGE_NUMA_PTE|_PAGE_PRESENT)) == _PAGE_NUMA_PTE;
}
And _PAGE_UNUSED2 (_PAGE_IOMAP) is used for the pmd but _PAGE_IOMAP by
Xen should only be set on ptes.
The only way to use _PAGE_PSE safe on the pte is if the pte is
non-present, is this what Xen is also doing? (in turn colliding with
pte_numa)
Now if I shrink the size of the page_autonuma to one entry per pmd
(instead of per pte) I may as well drop pte_numa entirely and only
leave pmd_numa. At the moment it's possible to switch between the two
models at runtime with sysctl (if one wants to do a more expensive
granular tracking). I'm still uncertain on the best way to shrink
the page_autonuma size we'll see.
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