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Message-ID: <1336726989.2527.143.camel@twins>
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2012 11:03:09 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>, rob@...dley.net,
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	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP
 large page

On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 08:44 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> On 05/10/2012 06:40 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:29:05AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 13:00 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> >>> We don't need to flush large pages by PAGE_SIZE step, that just waste
> >>> time. and actually, large page don't need 'invlpg' optimizing according
> >>> to our macro benchmark. So, just flush whole TLB is enough for them.
> >>>
> >>> The following result is tested on a 2CPU * 4cores * 2HT NHM EP machine,
> >>> with THP 'always' setting.
> >>
> >> What does it do when you disable THP? That has_large_page() thing is a
> >> massive amount of pointer chasing..
> > 
> > Yeah, this looks like a bit of a overhead. Don't we have some per-mm
> > accounting of whether that mm struct has hugepages in mm/huge_memory.c,
> > i.e. something like what collapse_huge_page() does, for example, at the
> > end by incrementing khugepaged_pages_collapsed but in a per-mm variable?
> > 
> > And make this part of the THP code so we get it for free here.
> > 
> > Is Andrea on the CC list... hm, no, CCed.
> 
> 
> Andrea has said there is no easy way to know if there is a large page in
> mm or vma.
> 
> Actually, has_large_page just called only once, that due to the
> act_entries limit. But your opinion is worth to consider, the only one
> calling can be avoid if the 'start' address is not align on HPAGE_SIZE.

One possibility is to extend vm_flags and add have THP set a new flag
whenever it installs a new page. Then have mmu_gather collect this
vm_flag just like it collects VM_EXEC and VM_HUGETLB.
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