Re: [PATCH -mm -v7 1/9] mm, swap: Make swap cluster size same of THP size on x86_64

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Tue Mar 28 2017 - 19:31:28 EST


On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 01:32:01PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> In this patch, the size of the swap cluster is changed to that of the
> THP (Transparent Huge Page) on x86_64 architecture (512). This is for
> the THP swap support on x86_64. Where one swap cluster will be used to
> hold the contents of each THP swapped out. And some information of the
> swapped out THP (such as compound map count) will be recorded in the
> swap_cluster_info data structure.
>
> For other architectures which want THP swap support,
> ARCH_USES_THP_SWAP_CLUSTER need to be selected in the Kconfig file for
> the architecture.

Intreseting case could be architecture with HPAGE_PMD_NR < 256.
Can current code pack more than one THP per claster.

If not we need to have BUILG_BUG_ON() to catch attempt of such enabling.

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Kirill A. Shutemov