Re: [PATCH 0/9] Hugepage migration (v2)

[Naoya Horiguchi]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:19:58AM -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> 
> > In my understanding, in current code "other processors increasing refcount
> > during migration" can happen both in non-hugepage direct I/O and in hugepage
> > direct I/O in the similar way (i.e. get_user_pages_fast() from dio_refill_pages()).
> > So I think there is no specific problem to hugepage.
> > Or am I missing your point?
> 
> With a single page there is the check of the refcount during migration
> after all the references have been removed (at that point the page is no
> longer mapped by any process and direct iO can no longer be
> initiated without a page fault.

The same checking mechanism works for hugeapge.

> 
> I see that you are running try_to_unmap() from unmap_and_move_huge_page().

Yes, that's right.

> 
> I dont see a patch adding huge page support to try_to_unmap though. How
> does this work?

I previously posted "hugetlb, rmap: add reverse mapping for hugepage" patch
which enables try_to_unmap() to work on hugepage by enabling to handle
anon_vma and mapcount for hugepage. For details refer to the following commit:

  commit 0fe6e20b9c4c53b3e97096ee73a0857f60aad43f
  Author: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Fri May 28 09:29:16 2010 +0900
  hugetlb, rmap: add reverse mapping for hugepage

(Current "Hugepage migration" patchset is based on 2.6.35-rc3.
So I'll rebase it onto the latest release in the next post.)

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi
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