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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:56:08 +0000
From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
To: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] ksm: Assist buddy allocator to assemble 1-order
pages
On 15.10.2018 13:38, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> I don't have objections to this patch, but I wonder how much impact it
> would have. Have you performed any tests? does it really have such a big
> impact on the availability of order-1 page blocks?
I have no synthetic tests on compaction, so this patch is RFC. Maybe you
suggest something? In my test machine I added debug patch on top of this,
which adds a counter of such tree_page preferred pages, and the counter
increments as well. Order-1 page is just a brick of a bigger order pages,
so this patch cares about them.
>
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 12:33:36 +0300
> Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
>
>> v2: Style improvements
>>
>> try_to_merge_two_pages() merges two pages, one of them
>> is a page of currently scanned mm, the second is a page
>> with identical hash from unstable tree. Currently, we
>> merge the page from unstable tree into the first one,
>> and then free it.
>>
>> The idea of this patch is to prefer freeing that page
>> of them, which has a free neighbour (i.e., neighbour
>> with zero page_count()). This allows buddy allocator
>> to assemble at least 1-order set from the freed page
>> and its neighbour; this is a kind of cheep passive
>> compaction.
>>
>> AFAIK, 1-order pages set consists of pages with PFNs
>> [2n, 2n+1] (odd, even), so the neighbour's pfn is
>> calculated via XOR with 1. We check the result pfn
>> is valid and its page_count(), and prefer merging
>> into @tree_page if neighbour's usage count is zero.
>>
>> There a is small difference with current behavior
>> in case of error path. In case of the second
>> try_to_merge_with_ksm_page() is failed, we return
>> from try_to_merge_two_pages() with @tree_page
>> removed from unstable tree. It does not seem to matter,
>> but if we do not want a change at all, it's not
>> a problem to move remove_rmap_item_from_tree() from
>> try_to_merge_with_ksm_page() to its callers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
>> ---
>> mm/ksm.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
>> index 5b0894b45ee5..005508c86d0a 100644
>> --- a/mm/ksm.c
>> +++ b/mm/ksm.c
>> @@ -1321,6 +1321,22 @@ static struct page
>> *try_to_merge_two_pages(struct rmap_item *rmap_item, {
>> int err;
>>
>> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION)) {
>> + unsigned long pfn;
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * Find neighbour of @page containing 1-order pair
>> + * in buddy-allocator and check whether it is free.
>> + * If it is so, try to use @tree_page as ksm page
>> + * and to free @page.
>> + */
>> + pfn = page_to_pfn(page) ^ 1;
>> + if (pfn_valid(pfn) && page_count(pfn_to_page(pfn))
>> == 0) {
>> + swap(rmap_item, tree_rmap_item);
>> + swap(page, tree_page);
>> + }
>> + }
>> +
>> err = try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(rmap_item, page, NULL);
>> if (!err) {
>> err = try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(tree_rmap_item,
>>
>
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