On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 10:38:22AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 06.06.24 05:31, Baolin Wang wrote: > > > > > > On 2024/6/4 20:05, Daniel Gomez wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 05:45:20PM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2024/6/4 16:18, Daniel Gomez wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 01:13:48PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > As a default, we should not be using large folios / mTHP for any shmem, > > > > > > > > just like we did with THP via shmem_enabled. This is what this series > > > > > > > > currently does, and is aprt of the whole mTHP user-space interface design. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Further, the mTHP controls should control all of shmem, not only > > > > > > > > "anonymous shmem". > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, that's what I thought and in my TODO list. > > > > > > > > > > > > Good, it would be helpful to coordinate with Daniel and Pankaj. > > > > > > > > > > I've integrated patches 11 and 12 from the lsf RFC thread [1] on top of Baolin's > > > > > v3 patches. You may find a version in my integration branch here [2]. I can > > > > > attach them here if it's preferred. > > > > > > > > > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240515055719.32577-1-da.gomez@xxxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > > [2] https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=a23e7c06-c3b56926-a23ff749-74fe485fb347-371ca2bfd5d9869f&q=1&e=6974304e-a786-4255-93a7-57498540241c&u=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Fdkruces%2Flinux-next%2F-%2Fcommits%2Fnext-20240604-shmem-mthp > > > > > > > > > > The point here is to combine the large folios strategy I proposed with mTHP > > > > > user controls. Would it make sense to limit the orders to the mapping order > > > > > calculated based on the size and index? > > > > > > > > IMO, for !anon shmem, this change makes sense to me. We should respect the > > > > size and mTHP should act as a order filter. > > > > > > What about respecing the size when within_size flag is enabled? Then, 'always' > > > would allocate mTHP enabled folios, regardless of the size. And 'never' > > > would ignore mTHP and size. So, 'never' can be used for this 'safe' boot case > > > mentioned in the discussion. > > > > Looks reasonable to me. What do you think, David? > > > > That mimics existing PMD-THP behavior, right? > > With "within_size", we must not exceed the size, with "always", we may > exceed the size. But right now we only check the inode size. With large folio support in write_iter() we can have access to the length as well. I think this would solve (paratially?) the cases where we don't have access to the file size and if we perform writes in bigger chunks. E.g. xfs_io -t -f -c "pwrite -b 2M -S 0x58 0 2M" /mnt/test/file For 'within_size', the example above would allocate 512 pages instead of one huge page. After patches [1] [2] we can get the size of the write to allocate whatever mTHP/THP makes more sense for the length being passed. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240527163616.1135968-2-hch@xxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240515055719.32577-12-da.gomez@xxxxxxxxxxx/ Here a quick hack for THP: @@ -561,7 +561,8 @@ bool shmem_is_huge(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index, bool shmem_huge_force, case SHMEM_HUGE_WITHIN_SIZE: index = round_up(index + 1, HPAGE_PMD_NR); i_size = round_up(i_size_read(inode), PAGE_SIZE); - if (i_size >> PAGE_SHIFT >= index) + if ((i_size >> PAGE_SHIFT >= index) || + (len >> PAGE_SHIFT >= index)) return true; fallthrough; > > > And what about 'advise' option? Silimar to 'within_size'? > > Good question. What's the behavior of PMD-THP? I would assume it behaves > like "within_size", because in the common case we mmap (+advise) only within > the size of the file, not exceeding it. It allocates a huge page on request when MADV_HUGEPAGE (regardless of the size). > > (the always option, as I learned during the meeting, is primarily helpful > when writing to tmpfs files in an append-fashion. With mmap()+madvise() that > doesn't quite happen) Let's benefit of larger writes as well if the chunk matches any of the mTHP/ THP sizes. > > -- > Cheers, > > David / dhildenb >
