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docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order
so that userspace interface and implementation description will be grouped together Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@ -38,31 +38,6 @@ are using hugepages but a significant speedup already happens if only
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one of the two is using hugepages just because of the fact the TLB
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miss is going to run faster.
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Design
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======
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- "graceful fallback": mm components which don't have transparent hugepage
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knowledge fall back to breaking huge pmd mapping into table of ptes and,
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if necessary, split a transparent hugepage. Therefore these components
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can continue working on the regular pages or regular pte mappings.
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- if a hugepage allocation fails because of memory fragmentation,
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regular pages should be gracefully allocated instead and mixed in
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the same vma without any failure or significant delay and without
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userland noticing
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- if some task quits and more hugepages become available (either
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immediately in the buddy or through the VM), guest physical memory
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backed by regular pages should be relocated on hugepages
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automatically (with khugepaged)
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- it doesn't require memory reservation and in turn it uses hugepages
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whenever possible (the only possible reservation here is kernelcore=
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to avoid unmovable pages to fragment all the memory but such a tweak
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is not specific to transparent hugepage support and it's a generic
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feature that applies to all dynamic high order allocations in the
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kernel)
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Transparent Hugepage Support maximizes the usefulness of free memory
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if compared to the reservation approach of hugetlbfs by allowing all
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unused memory to be used as cache or other movable (or even unmovable
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@ -401,6 +376,47 @@ tracer to record how long was spent in __alloc_pages_nodemask and
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using the mm_page_alloc tracepoint to identify which allocations were
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for huge pages.
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Optimizing the applications
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===========================
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To be guaranteed that the kernel will map a 2M page immediately in any
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memory region, the mmap region has to be hugepage naturally
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aligned. posix_memalign() can provide that guarantee.
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Hugetlbfs
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=========
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You can use hugetlbfs on a kernel that has transparent hugepage
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support enabled just fine as always. No difference can be noted in
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hugetlbfs other than there will be less overall fragmentation. All
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usual features belonging to hugetlbfs are preserved and
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unaffected. libhugetlbfs will also work fine as usual.
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Design principles
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=================
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- "graceful fallback": mm components which don't have transparent hugepage
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knowledge fall back to breaking huge pmd mapping into table of ptes and,
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if necessary, split a transparent hugepage. Therefore these components
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can continue working on the regular pages or regular pte mappings.
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- if a hugepage allocation fails because of memory fragmentation,
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regular pages should be gracefully allocated instead and mixed in
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the same vma without any failure or significant delay and without
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userland noticing
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- if some task quits and more hugepages become available (either
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immediately in the buddy or through the VM), guest physical memory
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backed by regular pages should be relocated on hugepages
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automatically (with khugepaged)
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- it doesn't require memory reservation and in turn it uses hugepages
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whenever possible (the only possible reservation here is kernelcore=
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to avoid unmovable pages to fragment all the memory but such a tweak
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is not specific to transparent hugepage support and it's a generic
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feature that applies to all dynamic high order allocations in the
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kernel)
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get_user_pages and follow_page
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==============================
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@ -432,22 +448,6 @@ hugepages being returned (as it's not only checking the pfn of the
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page and pinning it during the copy but it pretends to migrate the
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memory in regular page sizes and with regular pte/pmd mappings).
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Optimizing the applications
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===========================
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To be guaranteed that the kernel will map a 2M page immediately in any
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memory region, the mmap region has to be hugepage naturally
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aligned. posix_memalign() can provide that guarantee.
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Hugetlbfs
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=========
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You can use hugetlbfs on a kernel that has transparent hugepage
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support enabled just fine as always. No difference can be noted in
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hugetlbfs other than there will be less overall fragmentation. All
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usual features belonging to hugetlbfs are preserved and
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unaffected. libhugetlbfs will also work fine as usual.
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Graceful fallback
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=================
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