linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] hugetlb: perform vmemmap optimization on a list of pages

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Message-ID: <15aeb29a-1201-f86c-2cc5-cc583120fe4e@linux.dev>
Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2023 15:30:41 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@...ux.dev>,
        Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@...edance.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/11] hugetlb: perform vmemmap optimization on a list
 of pages



On 2023/9/6 05:44, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> When adding hugetlb pages to the pool, we first create a list of the
> allocated pages before adding to the pool.  Pass this list of pages to a
> new routine hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios() for vmemmap optimization.
>
> We also modify the routine vmemmap_should_optimize() to check for pages
> that are already optimized.  There are code paths that might request
> vmemmap optimization twice and we want to make sure this is not
> attempted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>

Thanks.