linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 00/21] mm, THP, swap: Swapout/swapin THP in one piece

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:51:44 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm -v4 00/21] mm, THP, swap: Swapout/swapin THP in one
 piece

On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:51:30 +0800 "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com> wrote:

> This is the final step of THP (Transparent Huge Page) swap
> optimization.  After the first and second step, the splitting huge
> page is delayed from almost the first step of swapout to after swapout
> has been finished.  In this step, we avoid splitting THP for swapout
> and swapout/swapin the THP in one piece.

It's a tremendously good performance improvement.  It's also a
tremendously large patchset :(

And it depends upon your
mm-swap-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-some-swap-operations.patch and
mm-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-mincore.patch, the first of which has
been floating about since February without adequate review.

I'll give this patchset a spin in -mm to see what happens and will come
back later to take a closer look.  But the best I can do at this time
is to hopefully cc some possible reviewers :)