Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: kill set_huge_swap_pte_at()

From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Tue Jun 28 2022 - 01:48:12 EST




On 6/27/22 20:04, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 01:05:00PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>> For the swap entry of hugetlb, we need to remember that we should
>>> call set_huge_swap_pte_at() instead of set_huge_pte_at() every
>>
>> Which is intuitive, so what is the problem ?
>
> The problem is that HugeTLB is DIFFERENT from the rest of the VM.

Agreed.

> This has a huge cost in programmer time, which is infinitely more
> valuable than the cycle shaving you're quibbling over. We should take
> any and every opportunity to make huge pages work the same way as THP
> and order-0 pages.

Got it.