Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] arm64/mm: Enable HugeTLB migration
From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Wed Oct 17 2018 - 04:19:25 EST
On 10/12/2018 09:29 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> This patch series enables HugeTLB migration support for all supported
> huge page sizes at all levels including contiguous bit implementation.
> Following HugeTLB migration support matrix has been enabled with this
> patch series. All permutations have been tested except for the 16GB.
>
> CONT PTE PMD CONT PMD PUD
> -------- --- -------- ---
> 4K: 64K 2M 32M 1G
> 16K: 2M 32M 1G
> 64K: 2M 512M 16G
>
> First the series adds migration support for PUD based huge pages. It
> then adds a platform specific hook to query an architecture if a
> given huge page size is supported for migration while also providing
> a default fallback option preserving the existing semantics which just
> checks for (PMD|PUD|PGDIR)_SHIFT macros. The last two patches enables
> HugeTLB migration on arm64 and subscribe to this new platform specific
> hook by defining an override.
>
> The second patch differentiates between movability and migratability
> aspects of huge pages and implements hugepage_movable_supported() which
> can then be used during allocation to decide whether to place the huge
> page in movable zone or not.
>
> Changes in V2:
>
> - Added a new patch which differentiates migratability and movability
> of huge pages and implements hugepage_movable_supported() function
> as suggested by Michal Hocko.
Hello Andrew/Michal/Mike/Naoya/Catalin,
Just checking for an update. Does this series looks okay ?
- Anshuman