The patch titled Subject: mm: incorporate read-only pages into transparent huge pages has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-incorporate-read-only-pages-into-transparent-huge-pages-v4.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-incorporate-read-only-pages-into-transparent-huge-pages.patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: incorporate read-only pages into transparent huge pages 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 60% 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> Acked-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 35 +++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~mm-incorporate-read-only-pages-into-transparent-huge-pages-v4 mm/huge_memory.c --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-incorporate-read-only-pages-into-transparent-huge-pages-v4 +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2115,12 +2115,12 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate( { struct page *page; pte_t *_pte; - int referenced = 0, none = 0, ro = 0, writable = 0; + int none = 0; + bool referenced = false, writable = false; for (_pte = pte; _pte < pte+HPAGE_PMD_NR; _pte++, address += PAGE_SIZE) { pte_t pteval = *_pte; if (pte_none(pteval)) { - ro++; if (++none <= khugepaged_max_ptes_none) continue; else @@ -2154,22 +2154,17 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate( unlock_page(page); goto out; } - if (!pte_write(pteval)) { - if (++ro > khugepaged_max_ptes_none) { - unlock_page(page); - goto out; - } + if (pte_write(pteval)) { + writable = true; + } else { 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. + * Page is not in the swap cache. It can be collapsed + * into a THP. */ - VM_BUG_ON(page_count(page) != 1); - } else { - writable = 1; } /* @@ -2188,7 +2183,7 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_isolate( /* If there is no mapped pte young don't collapse the page */ if (pte_young(pteval) || PageReferenced(page) || mmu_notifier_test_young(vma->vm_mm, address)) - referenced = 1; + referenced = true; } if (likely(referenced && writable)) return 1; @@ -2543,11 +2538,12 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm { pmd_t *pmd; pte_t *pte, *_pte; - int ret = 0, referenced = 0, none = 0, ro = 0, writable = 0; + int ret = 0, none = 0; struct page *page; unsigned long _address; spinlock_t *ptl; int node = NUMA_NO_NODE; + bool writable = false, referenced = false; VM_BUG_ON(address & ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK); @@ -2561,7 +2557,6 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm _pte++, _address += PAGE_SIZE) { pte_t pteval = *_pte; if (pte_none(pteval)) { - ro++; if (++none <= khugepaged_max_ptes_none) continue; else @@ -2569,12 +2564,8 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm } if (!pte_present(pteval)) goto out_unmap; - if (!pte_write(pteval)) { - if (++ro > khugepaged_max_ptes_none) - goto out_unmap; - } else { - writable = 1; - } + if (pte_write(pteval)) + writable = true; page = vm_normal_page(vma, _address, pteval); if (unlikely(!page)) @@ -2601,7 +2592,7 @@ static int khugepaged_scan_pmd(struct mm goto out_unmap; if (pte_young(pteval) || PageReferenced(page) || mmu_notifier_test_young(vma->vm_mm, address)) - referenced = 1; + referenced = true; } if (referenced && writable) ret = 1; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebru.akagunduz@xxxxxxxxx are mm-incorporate-read-only-pages-into-transparent-huge-pages.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html