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

From Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH -v3 00/10] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out
Date 2016-09-19 09:20 +0200
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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.

> So if we could deal with units of large page for swap, the splitting
> and compaction of ordinary pages to large page overhead could be avoided.
> 
>    51.89%    51.89%            :1688  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] pageblock_pfn_to_page                       
>                       |
>                       --- pageblock_pfn_to_page
>                          |          
>                          |--64.57%-- compaction_alloc
>                          |          migrate_pages
>                          |          compact_zone
>                          |          compact_zone_order
>                          |          try_to_compact_pages
>                          |          __alloc_pages_direct_compact
>                          |          __alloc_pages_nodemask
>                          |          alloc_pages_vma
>                          |          do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
>                          |          handle_mm_fault
>                          |          __do_page_fault
>                          |          do_page_fault
>                          |          page_fault
>                          |          0x401d9a
>                          |          
>                          |--34.62%-- compact_zone
>                          |          compact_zone_order
>                          |          try_to_compact_pages
>                          |          __alloc_pages_direct_compact
>                          |          __alloc_pages_nodemask
>                          |          alloc_pages_vma
>                          |          do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page
>                          |          handle_mm_fault
>                          |          __do_page_fault
>                          |          do_page_fault
>                          |          page_fault
>                          |          0x401d9a
>                           --0.81%-- [...]
> 
> 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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