[RFC 0/4] mm, swap: Enable THP SWAP for PowerPC Book3S64
From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
Date: Tue Jun 09 2026 - 09:26:20 EST
On PowerPC Book3S64, MMU is selected at runtime, so macros like PMD_SHIFT are
effectively runtime variables in the Book3S64 code. THP swap code uses these
macros for e.g. to size some of its array data structures based on PMD_ORDER.
This patch series makes that usage dependent on the runtime variable.
Sayali did some performance runs of this on Book3S64 with Radix and it gives
40-50% performance improvement. We also plan to run it with Hash, will soon
update the results.
Note that this patch series is based out of linux-next (next-20260608).
Ritesh Harjani (IBM) (4):
include/linux/swap.h: Remove unused leftovers
mm, swap: make SWAPFILE_CLUSTER runtime
mm, swap: make SWAP_NR_ORDERS runtime
powerpc: Kconfig: Enable THP_SWAP on Book3S64
arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 1 +
include/linux/swap.h | 17 +---
mm/swap.h | 5 +-
mm/swap_table.h | 6 +-
mm/swapfile.c | 132 ++++++++++++++++++-------
5 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
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