Re: [PATCH -mm -v7 0/9] THP swap: Delay splitting THP during swapping out

From: Huang\, Ying
Date: Wed Mar 29 2017 - 04:52:22 EST


Hi, Andrew,

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:32:00 +0800 "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Andrew, could you help me to check whether the overall design is
>> reasonable?
>>
>> Hi, Hugh, Shaohua, Minchan and Rik, could you help me to review the
>> swap part of the patchset? Especially [1/9], [3/9], [4/9], [5/9],
>> [6/9], [9/9].
>>
>> Hi, Andrea could you help me to review the THP part of the patchset?
>> Especially [2/9], [7/9] and [8/9].
>>
>> Hi, Johannes, Michal and Vladimir, I am not very confident about the
>> memory cgroup part, especially [2/9]. Could you help me to review it?
>>
>> And for all, Any comment is welcome!
>>
>>
>> Recently, the performance of the storage devices improved so fast that
>> we cannot saturate the disk bandwidth with single logical CPU when do
>> page swap out even on a high-end server machine. Because the
>> performance of the storage device improved faster than that of single
>> logical CPU. And it seems that the trend will not change in the near
>> future. On the other hand, the THP becomes more and more popular
>> because of increased memory size. So it becomes necessary to optimize
>> THP swap performance.
>
> I'll merge this patchset for testing purposes, but I don't believe that
> it has yet had sufficient review. And thanks for drawing our attention
> to those parts where you believe close review is needed - that helps.

Thanks a lot for your help! I believe the patchset will be better
tested in -mm tree. And hope people will have time to review it more
closely.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying