Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: Default implementation of arch_wants_pte_order()

[Yu Zhao]

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 8:23 PM Yin, Fengwei <fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 7/3/2023 9:53 PM, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> > arch_wants_pte_order() can be overridden by the arch to return the
> > preferred folio order for pte-mapped memory. This is useful as some
> > architectures (e.g. arm64) can coalesce TLB entries when the physical
> > memory is suitably contiguous.
> >
> > The first user for this hint will be FLEXIBLE_THP, which aims to
> > allocate large folios for anonymous memory to reduce page faults and
> > other per-page operation costs.
> >
> > Here we add the default implementation of the function, used when the
> > architecture does not define it, which returns the order corresponding
> > to 64K.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/pgtable.h | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
> > index a661a17173fa..f7e38598f20b 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
> > @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/errno.h>
> >  #include <asm-generic/pgtable_uffd.h>
> >  #include <linux/page_table_check.h>
> > +#include <linux/sizes.h>
> >
> >  #if 5 - defined(__PAGETABLE_P4D_FOLDED) - defined(__PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED) - \
> >       defined(__PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED) != CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS
> > @@ -336,6 +337,18 @@ static inline bool arch_has_hw_pte_young(void)
> >  }
> >  #endif
> >
> > +#ifndef arch_wants_pte_order
> > +/*
> > + * Returns preferred folio order for pte-mapped memory. Must be in range [0,
> > + * PMD_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT) and must not be order-1 since THP requires large folios
> > + * to be at least order-2.
> > + */
> > +static inline int arch_wants_pte_order(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > +{
> > +     return ilog2(SZ_64K >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> Default value which is not related with any silicon may be: PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER?
>
> Also, current pcp list support cache page with order 0...PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER, 9.
> If the pcp could cover the page, the pressure to zone lock will be reduced by pcp.

The value of PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER is reasonable but again it's a
s/w policy not a h/w preference. Besides, I don't think we can include
mmzone.h in pgtable.h.