On 06/14/2015 11:04 AM, Ebru Akagunduz wrote: > This patch makes swapin readahead to improve thp collapse rate. > When khugepaged scanned pages, there can be a few of the pages > in swap area. > > With the patch THP can collapse 4kB pages into a THP when > there are up to max_ptes_swap swap ptes in a 2MB range. > > The patch was tested with a test program that allocates > 800MB of memory, writes to it, and then sleeps. I force > the system to swap out all. Afterwards, the test program > touches the area by writing, it skips a page in each > 20 pages of the area. > > Without the patch, system did not swap in readahead. > THP rate was %47 of the program of the memory, it > did not change over time. > > With this patch, after 10 minutes of waiting khugepaged had > collapsed %99 of the program's memory. > > Signed-off-by: Ebru Akagunduz <[email protected]>
Mechanism looks good to me. Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> -- All rights reversed -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
