linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] mm/__free_one_page: skip merge for order-0 page unless compaction failed

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Message-ID: <9ab5a6dd-c1b2-8da3-31f1-dd2237ea0f44@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:39:17 -0400
From:   Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@...el.com>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] mm/__free_one_page: skip merge for order-0
 page unless compaction failed



On 03/22/2018 01:15 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:11:01PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
>>>> A new document file called "struct_page_filed" is added to explain
>>>> the newly reused field in "struct page".
>>>
>>> Sounds rather ad-hoc for a single field, I'd rather document it via
>>> comments.
>>
>> Dave would like to have a document to explain all those "struct page"
>> fields that are repurposed under different scenarios and this is the
>> very start of the document :-)
>>
>> I probably should have explained the intent of the document more.
> 
> Dave and I are in agreement on "Shouldn't struct page be better documented".
> I came up with this a few weeks ago; never quite got round to turning it
> into a patch:
> 
> +---+-----------+-----------+--------------+----------+--------+--------------+
> | B | slab      | pagecache | tail 1       | anon     | tail 1 | hugetlb      |
> +===+===========+===========+==============+==========+========+==============+
> | 0 | flags                                                                   |
> +---+                                                                         |
> | 4 |                                                                         |
> +---+-----------+-----------+--------------+----------+--------+--------------+
> | 8 | s_mem     | mapping   | cmp_mapcount | anon_vma | defer  | mapping      |
> +---+           |           +--------------+          | list   |              |
> |12 |           |           |              |          |        |              |
> +---+-----------+-----------+--------------+----------+        +--------------+
> |16 | freelist  | index                               |        | index        |
> +---+           |                                     |        | (shifted)    |
> |20 |           |                                     |        |              |
> +---+-----------+-------------------------------------+--------+--------------+
> |24 | counters  | mapcount                                                    |
> +---+           +-----------+--------------+----------+--------+--------------+
> |28 |           | refcount  |              |          |        | refcount     |
> +---+-----------+-----------+--------------+----------+--------+--------------+
> |32 | next      | lru       | cmpd_head    |                   | lru          |
> +---+           |           |              +-------------------+              +
> |36 |           |           |              |                   |              |
> +---+-----------+           +--------------+-------------------+              +
> |40 | pages     |           | dtor / order |                   |              |
> +---+-----------+           +--------------+-------------------+              +
> |44 | pobjects  |           |              |                   |              |
> +---+-----------+-----------+--------------+----------------------------------+
> |48 | slb_cache | private   |              |                                  |
> +---+           |           +--------------+----------------------------------+
> |52 |           |           |              |                                  |
> +---+-----------+-----------+--------------+----------------------------------+

Shouldn't the anon column also contain lru?