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Message-ID: <20220822080211.te3ifvu3xv4ye4p7@kamzik>
Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:02:11 +0200
From:   Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>
To:     Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
Cc:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: enable THP_SWAP for RV64

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:05:59AM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> I have a Sipeed Lichee RV dock board which only has 512MB DDR, so
> memory optimizations such as swap on zram are helpful. As is seen
> in commit d0637c505f8a ("arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64") and
> commit bd4c82c22c367e ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP after
> swapped out"), THP_SWAP can improve the swap throughput significantly.
> 
> Enable THP_SWAP for RV64, testing the micro-benchmark which is
> introduced by commit d0637c505f8a ("arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64")
> shows below numbers on the Lichee RV dock board:
> 
> thp swp throughput w/o patch: 66908 bytes/ms (mean of 10 tests)
> thp swp throughput w/ patch: 322638 bytes/ms (mean of 10 tests)
> 
> Improved by 382%!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index ed66c31e4655..19088c750c7f 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ config RISCV
>  	select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
>  	select ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
>  	select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if 64BIT
> +	select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>  	select BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET if !MMU
>  	select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT if MMU
>  	select CLONE_BACKWARDS
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>

That looks like a good idea to me.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>