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Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out

From Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out
Date 2016-09-19 18:00 +0200
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On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 16:11 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:52:27PM +0000, Chen, Tim C wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > - Avoid CPU time for splitting, collapsing THP across swap out/in.
> > > Yes, if you want, please give us how bad it is.
> > > 
> > It could be pretty bad.  In an experiment with THP turned on and we
> > enter swap, 50% of the cpu are spent in the page compaction path.  
> It's page compaction overhead, especially, pageblock_pfn_to_page.
> Why is it related to overhead THP split for swapout?
> I don't understand.

Today you have to split a large page into 4K pages to swap it out.
Then after you swap in all the 4K pages, you have to re-compact
them back into a large page.

If you can swap the large page out as a contiguous unit, and swap
it back in as a single large page, the splitting and re-compaction
back into a large page can be avoided.

Tim

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Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-09-09 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping  out Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2016-09-13 08:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-09-13 08:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping  out Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2016-09-13 09:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-09-13 11:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping  out Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2016-09-13 11:20 +0200
            RE: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping  out "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com> - 2016-09-14 02:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping  out Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2016-09-19 09:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping  out Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-09-19 18:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-09-18 04:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping  out Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2016-09-19 09:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-09-20 05:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-09-20 07:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping  out Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2016-09-20 07:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping  out Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> - 2016-09-13 16:40 +0200

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