From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DA1C43144 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:31:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C0D26E35 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:31:23 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 36C0D26E35 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux-foundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753326AbeF1FbU (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2018 01:31:20 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45196 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751630AbeF1FbT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2018 01:31:19 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-24-4-125-7.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.4.125.7]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 29056C3A; Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:31:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 22:31:18 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Huang\, Ying" Cc: , , Hugh Dickins , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Daniel Jordan Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 00/21] mm, THP, swap: Swapout/swapin THP in one piece Message-Id: <20180627223118.dd2f52d87f53e7e002ed0153@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <87r2krfpi2.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com> References: <20180622035151.6676-1-ying.huang@intel.com> <20180627215144.73e98b01099191da59bff28c@linux-foundation.org> <87r2krfpi2.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:29:09 +0800 "Huang\, Ying" wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:51:30 +0800 "Huang, Ying" wrote: > > > >> This is the final step of THP (Transparent Huge Page) swap > >> optimization. After the first and second step, the splitting huge > >> page is delayed from almost the first step of swapout to after swapout > >> has been finished. In this step, we avoid splitting THP for swapout > >> and swapout/swapin the THP in one piece. > > > > It's a tremendously good performance improvement. It's also a > > tremendously large patchset :( > > > > And it depends upon your > > mm-swap-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-some-swap-operations.patch and > > mm-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-mincore.patch, the first of which has > > been floating about since February without adequate review. > > > > I'll give this patchset a spin in -mm to see what happens and will come > > back later to take a closer look. But the best I can do at this time > > is to hopefully cc some possible reviewers :) > > Thanks a lot for your help! Hope more people can review it! I took it out of -mm again, temporarily. Due to a huge tangle with the xarray conversions in linux-next.