Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 01/10] mm: Allow deferred splitting of arbitrary anon large folios

From: Barry Song
Date: Mon Nov 27 2023 - 03:27:39 EST


> In preparation for the introduction of anonymous small-sized THP, we
> would like to be able to split them when they have unmapped subpages, in
> order to free those unused pages under memory pressure. So remove the
> artificial requirement that the large folio needed to be at least
> PMD-sized.
>
> Reviewed-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>

> mm/rmap.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index 7a27a2b41802..49e4d86a4f70 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -1488,11 +1488,11 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> __lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, idx, -nr);
>
> /*
> - * Queue anon THP for deferred split if at least one
> + * Queue anon large folio for deferred split if at least one
> * page of the folio is unmapped and at least one page
> * is still mapped.
> */
> - if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio) && folio_test_anon(folio))
> + if (folio_test_large(folio) && folio_test_anon(folio))
> if (!compound || nr < nr_pmdmapped)
> deferred_split_folio(folio);
> }
> --
> 2.25.1

Thanks
Barry