linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: make every pte dirty on do_swap

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Message-ID: <552715E4.2080100@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 09 Apr 2015 20:14:28 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>,
	Yalin.Wang@...ymobile.com, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm: make every pte dirty on do_swap_page

On 04/09/2015 04:59 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 08:50:25 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
>> Bump.
> 
> I'm getting the feeling that MADV_FREE is out of control.
> 
> Below is the overall rollup of
> 
> mm-support-madvisemadv_free.patch
> mm-support-madvisemadv_free-fix.patch
> mm-support-madvisemadv_free-fix-2.patch
> mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called.patch
> mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix.patch
> mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix-2.patch
> mm-free-swp_entry-in-madvise_free.patch
> mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list.patch
> mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix.patch
> mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix-fix.patch
> mm-move-lazy-free-pages-to-inactive-list-fix-fix-fix.patch
> mm-make-every-pte-dirty-on-do_swap_page.patch
> 
> 
> It's pretty large and has its sticky little paws in all sorts of places.
> 
> 
> The feature would need to be pretty darn useful to justify a mainline
> merge.  Has any such usefulness been demonstrated?

The performance increase of MADV_FREE over MADV_DONTNEED is
quite significant. I suspect this is especially important for
mobile devices, which are more memory starved than desktop
systems and servers.

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