On 01/24/2015 04:38 PM, Ebru Akagunduz wrote: > This patch aims to improve THP collapse rates, by allowing > THP collapse in the presence of read-only ptes, like those > left in place by do_swap_page after a read fault. > > Currently THP can collapse 4kB pages into a THP when > there are up to khugepaged_max_ptes_none pte_none ptes > in a 2MB range. This patch applies the same limit for > read-only ptes. > > The patch was tested with a test program that allocates > 800MB of memory, writes to it, and then sleeps. I force > the system to swap out all but 190MB of the program by > touching other memory. Afterwards, the test program does > a mix of reads and writes to its memory, and the memory > gets swapped back in. > > Without the patch, only the memory that did not get > swapped out remained in THPs, which corresponds to 24% of > the memory of the program. The percentage did not increase > over time. > > With this patch, after 5 minutes of waiting khugepaged had > collapsed 48% of the program's memory back into THPs. > > Signed-off-by: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> > --- > Changes in v2: > - Remove extra code indent > - Add fast path optimistic check to > __collapse_huge_page_isolate() My interpretation is that the optimistic check is in khugepaged_scan_pmd() while in __collapse_huge_page_isolate() it's protected by lock, as Andrea suggested? > - Add comment line for check condition of page_count() > - Move check condition of page_count() below to trylock_page() > > I've written down test results: > With the patch: > After swapped out: > cat /proc/pid/smaps: > Anonymous: 42804 kB > AnonHugePages: 38912 kB > Swap: 757200 kB > Fraction: 90,90 > > cat /proc/meminfo: > AnonPages: 1843956 kB > AnonHugePages: 1712128 kB > Fraction: 92,85 > > After swapped in: > In a few seconds: > cat /proc/pid/smaps: > Anonymous: 800004 kB > AnonHugePages: 104448 kB > Swap: 0 kB > Fraction: 13,05 > > cat /proc/meminfo: > AnonPages: 2605728 kB > AnonHugePages: 1777664 kB > Fraction: 68,22 > > In 5 minutes: > cat /proc/pid/smaps > Anonymous: 800004 kB > AnonHugePages: 389120 kB > Swap: 0 kB > Fraction: 48,63 > > cat /proc/meminfo: > AnonPages: 2607824 kB > AnonHugePages: 2041856 kB > Fraction: 78,29 > > Without the patch: > After swapped out: > cat /proc/pid/smaps: > Anonymous: 190660 kB > AnonHugePages: 190464 kB > Swap: 609344 kB > Fraction: 99,89 > > cat /proc/meminfo: > AnonPages: 1740456 kB > AnonHugePages: 1667072 kB > Fraction: 95,78 > > After swapped in: > cat /proc/pid/smaps: > Anonymous: 800004 kB > AnonHugePages: 190464 kB > Swap: 0 kB > Fraction: 23,80 > > cat /proc/meminfo: > AnonPages: 2350032 kB > AnonHugePages: 1667072 kB > Fraction: 70,93 > > I waited 10 minutes the fractions > did not change without the patch. > > mm/huge_memory.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c > index 817a875..5e3e9b9 100644 > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c > @@ -2148,7 +2148,7 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, > { > struct page *page; > pte_t *_pte; > - int referenced = 0, none = 0; > + int referenced = 0, none = 0, ro = 0; > for (_pte = pte; _pte < pte+HPAGE_PMD_NR; > _pte++, address += PAGE_SIZE) { > pte_t pteval = *_pte; > @@ -2158,7 +2158,7 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, > else > goto out; > } > - if (!pte_present(pteval) || !pte_write(pteval)) > + if (!pte_present(pteval)) > goto out; > page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, pteval); > if (unlikely(!page)) > @@ -2168,9 +2168,6 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, > VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page); > VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageSwapBacked(page), page); > > - /* cannot use mapcount: can't collapse if there's a gup pin */ > - if (page_count(page) != 1) > - goto out; > /* > * We can do it before isolate_lru_page because the > * page can't be freed from under us. NOTE: PG_lock > @@ -2179,6 +2176,31 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, > */ > if (!trylock_page(page)) > goto out; > + > + /* > + * cannot use mapcount: can't collapse if there's a gup pin. > + * The page must only be referenced by the scanned process > + * and page swap cache. > + */ > + if (page_count(page) != 1 + !!PageSwapCache(page)) { > + unlock_page(page); > + goto out; > + } > + if (!pte_write(pteval)) { > + if (++ro > khugepaged_max_ptes_none) { > + unlock_page(page); > + goto out; So just for completeness, as I said later for v1 I think this can leave us with read-only VMA: consider ro == 256 and none == 256, referenced can still be >0 (up to 256). I think that the check for referenced that follows this for loop should also check if (ro + none < HPAGE_PMD_NR). > + } > + if (PageSwapCache(page) && !reuse_swap_page(page)) { > + unlock_page(page); > + goto out; > + } > + /* > + * Page is not in the swap cache, and page count is > + * one (see above). It can be collapsed into a THP. > + */ I would still put the VM_BUG_ON(page_count(page) != 1) here as I suggested previously. Even more so that I think it would have been able to catch the problem that Andrea pointed out in v1. > + } > + > /* > * Isolate the page to avoid collapsing an hugepage > * currently in use by the VM. > @@ -2550,7 +2572,7 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, > { > pmd_t *pmd; > pte_t *pte, *_pte; > - int ret = 0, referenced = 0, none = 0; > + int ret = 0, referenced = 0, none = 0, ro = 0; > struct page *page; > unsigned long _address; > spinlock_t *ptl; > @@ -2573,8 +2595,12 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, > else > goto out_unmap; > } > - if (!pte_present(pteval) || !pte_write(pteval)) > + if (!pte_present(pteval)) > goto out_unmap; > + if (!pte_write(pteval)) { > + if (++ro > khugepaged_max_ptes_none) > + goto out_unmap; > + } > page = vm_normal_page(vma, _address, pteval); > if (unlikely(!page)) > goto out_unmap; > @@ -2591,8 +2617,12 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, > VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(page), page); > if (!PageLRU(page) || PageLocked(page) || !PageAnon(page)) > goto out_unmap; > - /* cannot use mapcount: can't collapse if there's a gup pin */ > - if (page_count(page) != 1) > + /* > + * cannot use mapcount: can't collapse if there's a gup pin. > + * The page must only be referenced by the scanned process > + * and page swap cache. > + */ > + if (page_count(page) != 1 + !!PageSwapCache(page)) > goto out_unmap; > if (pte_young(pteval) || PageReferenced(page) || > mmu_notifier_test_young(vma->vm_mm, address)) > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. 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