Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934553AbbEOLfw (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2015 07:35:52 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54038 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934187AbbEOLfv (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2015 07:35:51 -0400 Message-ID: <5555DA15.10903@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 13:35:49 +0200 From: Vlastimil Babka User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" CC: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Hugh Dickins , Dave Hansen , Mel Gorman , Rik van Riel , Christoph Lameter , Naoya Horiguchi , Steve Capper , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Jerome Marchand , Sasha Levin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 04/28] mm, thp: adjust conditions when we can reuse the page on WP fault References: <1429823043-157133-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> <1429823043-157133-5-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> <5555B914.8050800@suse.cz> <20150515112113.GD6250@node.dhcp.inet.fi> In-Reply-To: <20150515112113.GD6250@node.dhcp.inet.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1739 Lines: 42 On 05/15/2015 01:21 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:15:00AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> On 04/23/2015 11:03 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: >>> With new refcounting we will be able map the same compound page with >>> PTEs and PMDs. It requires adjustment to conditions when we can reuse >>> the page on write-protection fault. >>> >>> For PTE fault we can't reuse the page if it's part of huge page. >>> >>> For PMD we can only reuse the page if nobody else maps the huge page or >>> it's part. We can do it by checking page_mapcount() on each sub-page, >>> but it's expensive. >>> >>> The cheaper way is to check page_count() to be equal 1: every mapcount >>> takes page reference, so this way we can guarantee, that the PMD is the >>> only mapping. >>> >>> This approach can give false negative if somebody pinned the page, but >>> that doesn't affect correctness. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov >>> Tested-by: Sasha Levin >> >> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka >> >> So couldn't the same trick be used in Patch 1 to avoid counting individual >> oder-0 pages? > > Hm. You're right, we could. But is smaps that performance sensitive to > bother? Well, I was nudged to optimize it when doing the shmem swap accounting changes there :) User may not care about the latency of obtaining the smaps file contents, but since it has mmap_sem locked for that, the process might care... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/