linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm -v10 3/3] mm, THP, swap: Enable THP swap optimization only if has compound map

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Message-Id: <20170425125658.28684-4-ying.huang@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:56:58 +0800
From:   "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: [PATCH -mm -v10 3/3] mm, THP, swap: Enable THP swap optimization only if has compound map

From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>

If there is no compound map for a THP (Transparent Huge Page), it is
possible that the map count of some sub-pages of the THP is 0.  So it
is better to split the THP before swapping out. In this way, the
sub-pages not mapped will be freed, and we can avoid the unnecessary
swap out operations for these sub-pages.

Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
---
 mm/swap_state.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
index 006d91d8fc53..13f83c6bb1b4 100644
--- a/mm/swap_state.c
+++ b/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -192,9 +192,19 @@ int add_to_swap(struct page *page, struct list_head *list)
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageUptodate(page), page);
 
-	/* cannot split, skip it */
-	if (PageTransHuge(page) && !can_split_huge_page(page, NULL))
-		return 0;
+	if (PageTransHuge(page)) {
+		/* cannot split, skip it */
+		if (!can_split_huge_page(page, NULL))
+			return 0;
+		/*
+		 * Split pages without a PMD map right away. Chances
+		 * are some or all of the tail pages can be freed
+		 * without IO.
+		 */
+		if (!compound_mapcount(page) &&
+		    split_huge_page_to_list(page, list))
+			return 0;
+	}
 
 retry:
 	entry = get_swap_page(page);
-- 
2.11.0