On Wed, 27 May 2020 15:41:48 -0400 Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:29:58AM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > From: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Currently, THP are counted as single pages until they are split right
> > before being swapped out. However, at that point the VM is already in
> > the middle of reclaim, and adjusting the LRU balance then is useless.
> > 
> > Always account THP by the number of basepages, and remove the fixup
> > from the splitting path.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
> 
> This is now already in mm as part of the "mm: balance LRU lists based
> on relative thrashing" series that I sent out last week and where it
> was originally from.

Yup.  I hope [1/3] and [2/3] weren't urgent?  Due to a horrid merge
mismatchmishmashmess I've staged them behind lots of other things,
notably

thp/khugepaged improvements and CoW semantics
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

and mm: memcontrol: charge swapin pages on instantiation
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

and mm: balance LRU lists based on relative thrashing
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]


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