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SubjectRe: [PATCHv4 00/24] THP refcounting redesign
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 03:12:05PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> writes:
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > It's bug-fix update of my thp refcounting work.
> >
> > The goal of patchset is to make refcounting on THP pages cheaper with
> > simpler semantics and allow the same THP compound page to be mapped with
> > PMD and PTEs. This is required to get reasonable THP-pagecache
> > implementation.
> >
> > With the new refcounting design it's much easier to protect against
> > split_huge_page(): simple reference on a page will make you the deal.
> > It makes gup_fast() implementation simpler and doesn't require
> > special-case in futex code to handle tail THP pages.
> >
> > It should improve THP utilization over the system since splitting THP in
> > one process doesn't necessary lead to splitting the page in all other
> > processes have the page mapped.
>
> I tested this patch on ppc64 and verified thp allocation and split.
> I also checked the subpage_prot and it worked as expected. I will
> run more tests with this series and update if I find any issues.

Thanks a lot.

Could you also prepare patch to drop power-specific code related to
pmd_trans_splitting()? It's not needed anymore with the patchset.

--
Kirill A. Shutemov


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