linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 09/11] thp: lazy huge zero page allocation

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Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:30:51 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 09/11] thp: lazy huge zero page allocation

On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:41:55 +0200
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:37:09PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > 
> > > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Instead of allocating huge zero page on hugepage_init() we can postpone it
> > > until first huge zero page map. It saves memory if THP is not in use.
> > > 
> > 
> > Is it worth the branch on every non-write pagefault after that?  The 
> > unlikely() is not going to help on x86.  If thp is enabled in your 
> > .config (which isn't the default), then I think it's better to just 
> > allocate the zero huge page once and avoid any branches after that to 
> > lazily allocate it.  (Or do it only when thp is set to "madvise" or 
> > "always" if booting with transparent_hugepage=never.)
> 
> I can rewrite the check to static_key if you want. Would it be better?

The new test-n-branch only happens on the first read fault against a
thp huge page, yes?  In which case it's a quite infrequent event and I
suspect this isn't worth bothering about.


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