From: Huang Ying <[email protected]> If there is no compound map for a THP (Transparent Huge Page), it is possible that the map count of some sub-pages of the THP is 0. So it is better to split the THP before swapping out. In this way, the sub-pages not mapped will be freed, and we can avoid the unnecessary swap out operations for these sub-pages.
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]> --- mm/vmscan.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index a5355022dc2f..f7e949ac9756 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1125,10 +1125,19 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head *page_list, !PageSwapCache(page)) { if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)) goto keep_locked; - /* cannot split THP, skip it */ - if (PageTransHuge(page) && - !can_split_huge_page(page, NULL)) - goto activate_locked; + if (PageTransHuge(page)) { + /* cannot split THP, skip it */ + if (!can_split_huge_page(page, NULL)) + goto activate_locked; + /* + * Split pages without a PMD map right + * away. Chances are some or all of the + * tail pages can be freed without IO. + */ + if (!compound_mapcount(page) && + split_huge_page_to_list(page, page_list)) + goto activate_locked; + } if (!add_to_swap(page)) { if (!PageTransHuge(page)) goto activate_locked; -- 2.11.0
