linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: move xa forward when run across zombie page

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Message-ID: <CAGWkznF3y0BFi-9+1GhBv8NS5P7TZKvdbX0qSbaGVR2BmvD3Ew@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:27:39 +0800
From:   Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        "zhaoyang.huang" <zhaoyang.huang@...soc.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ke.wang@...soc.com,
        steve.kang@...soc.com, baocong.liu@...soc.com,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: move xa forward when run across zombie page

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 9:06 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 01:48:37PM +0800, Zhaoyang Huang wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 12:47 PM Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> > > I removed the mapping_set_large_folios() calls in the XFS inode
> > > instantiation and the test code has now run over 55,000 iterations
> > > without failing.  The most iterations I'd seen with large folios
> > > enabled was about 7,000 - typically it would fail within 2-3,000
> > > iterations.
> > hint from my side. The original problem I raised is under v5.15 where
> > there is no folio yet.
>
> But 5.15 does use 2MB pages in shmem.  You haven't really provided
> any information, so I don't know whether the inode that you're having
> problems with is a shmem inode.
No, it is a f2fs inode using 4KB pages.