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| 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 |
| Message-ID | <sj11T-2o5-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <sgPHz-6Bw-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <sgQ0W-6Y0-29@gated-at.bofh.it> <sgRJp-7Xu-43@gated-at.bofh.it> <sgS2J-8jW-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <sh5Mm-t4-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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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