Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page

2020-10-30 Thread Michal Hocko
On Fri 30-10-20 18:24:25, Muchun Song wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 5:14 PM Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > On Mon 26-10-20 22:50:55, Muchun Song wrote: > > > If we uses the 1G hugetlbpage, we can save 4095 pages. This is a very > > > substantial gain. On our server, run some SPDK/QEMU

Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page

2020-10-30 Thread Muchun Song
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 5:14 PM Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Mon 26-10-20 22:50:55, Muchun Song wrote: > > If we uses the 1G hugetlbpage, we can save 4095 pages. This is a very > > substantial gain. On our server, run some SPDK/QEMU applications which > > will use 1000GB hugetlbpage. With this

Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page

2020-10-26 Thread Muchun Song
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:53 PM Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:50:55PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote: > > For tail pages, the value of compound_dtor is the same. So we can reuse > > compound_dtor is only set on the first tail page. compound_head is > what you mean here, I