On 22.02.24 08:51, Lance Yang wrote:
Hey, On an Intel Core i5 CPU, the time taken by khugepaged to scan the address space of the process, which has been set with the MMF_DISABLE_THP flag after being added to the mm_slots list, is as follows (shorter is better): VMA Count | Old | New | Change --------------------------------------- 50 | 23us | 9us | -60.9% 100 | 32us | 9us | -71.9% 200 | 44us | 9us | -79.5% 400 | 75us | 9us | -88.0% 800 | 98us | 9us | -90.8% IIUC, once the count of VMAs for the process exceeds page_to_scan, khugepaged needs to wait for scan_sleep_millisecs ms before scanning the next process. IMO, unnecessary scans could actually be skipped with a very inexpensive mm->flags check in this case.
FWIW Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Cheers, David / dhildenb