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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/8] hugetlb: batch PMD split for bulk vmemmap dedup
From:   Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:41:44 +0800
Cc:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
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        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>,
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        Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
        Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>,
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To:     Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
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> On Sep 19, 2023, at 16:26, Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> On 19/09/2023 07:42, Muchun Song wrote:
>> On 2023/9/19 07:01, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>>> From: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
>>>=20
>>> In an effort to minimize amount of TLB flushes, batch all PMD splits
>>> belonging to a range of pages in order to perform only 1 (global) =
TLB
>>> flush.
>>>=20
>>> Add a flags field to the walker and pass whether it's a bulk =
allocation
>>> or just a single page to decide to remap. First value
>>> (VMEMMAP_SPLIT_NO_TLB_FLUSH) designates the request to not do the =
TLB
>>> flush when we split the PMD.
>>>=20
>>> Rebased and updated by Mike Kravetz
>>>=20
>>> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
>>> ---
>>>  mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 79 =
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>>  1 file changed, 75 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>=20
>>> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
>>> index 147ed15bcae4..e8bc2f7567db 100644
>>> --- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
>>> +++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
>>> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
>>>   * @reuse_addr:        the virtual address of the @reuse_page page.
>>>   * @vmemmap_pages:    the list head of the vmemmap pages that can =
be freed
>>>   *            or is mapped from.
>>> + * @flags:        used to modify behavior in bulk operations
>>=20
>> Better to describe it as "used to modify behavior in vmemmap page =
table walking
>> operations"
>>=20
> OK
>=20
>>>  void hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios(struct hstate *h, struct =
list_head
>>> *folio_list)
>>>  {
>>>      struct folio *folio;
>>>      LIST_HEAD(vmemmap_pages);
>>>  +    list_for_each_entry(folio, folio_list, lru)
>>> +        hugetlb_vmemmap_split(h, &folio->page);
>>> +
>>> +    flush_tlb_all();
>>> +
>>>      list_for_each_entry(folio, folio_list, lru) {
>>>          int ret =3D __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize(h, &folio->page,
>>>                                  &vmemmap_pages);
>>=20
>> This is unlikely to be failed since the page table allocation
>> is moved to the above=20
>=20
>> (Note that the head vmemmap page allocation
>> is not mandatory).=20
>=20
> Good point that I almost forgot
>=20
>> So we should handle the error case in the above
>> splitting operation.
>=20
> But back to the previous discussion in v2... the thinking was that =
/some/ PMDs
> got split, and say could allow some PTE remapping to occur and free =
some pages
> back (each page allows 6 more splits worst case). Then the next
> __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize() will have to split PMD pages again for =
those
> hugepages that failed the batch PMD split (as we only defer the PTE =
remap tlb
> flush in this stage).

Oh, yes. Maybe we could break the above traversal as early as possible
once we enter an ENOMEM?

>=20
> Unless this isn't something worth handling
>=20
> Joao