Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:51:30 +0800 "Huang, Ying" <ying.hu...@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> This is the final step of THP (Transparent Huge Page) swap
>> optimization.  After the first and second step, the splitting huge
>> page is delayed from almost the first step of swapout to after swapout
>> has been finished.  In this step, we avoid splitting THP for swapout
>> and swapout/swapin the THP in one piece.
>
> It's a tremendously good performance improvement.  It's also a
> tremendously large patchset :(
>
> And it depends upon your
> mm-swap-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-some-swap-operations.patch and
> mm-fix-race-between-swapoff-and-mincore.patch, the first of which has
> been floating about since February without adequate review.
>
> I'll give this patchset a spin in -mm to see what happens and will come
> back later to take a closer look.  But the best I can do at this time
> is to hopefully cc some possible reviewers :)

Thanks a lot for your help!  Hope more people can review it!

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

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