linux-kernel - Re: Mapcount of subpages

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Message-ID: <YU0qdpbjK5Hdfk2p@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 24 Sep 2021 02:31:34 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
Cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>,
        Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: Mapcount of subpages

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 06:11:19PM -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 4:49 PM Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote:
> > I believe Yang Shi is right insofar as the decision on whether it's worth
> > queuing for deferred split is being done based on those subpage _mapcounts.
> > That is a use I had not considered, and I've given no thought to how
> > important or not it is.
> 
> Anyway deferred split is anon THP specific. We don't have to worry
> about this for file THP. So your suggestion about just counting total
> mapcount seems feasible to me for file THP at least.

But I think we probably *should* do deferred split for file THP.
At the moment, when we truncate to the middle of a shmem THP, we try
a few times to split it and then just give up.  We should probably try
once and then queue it for deferred split.