Re: [PATCH] mm/vmstat: Add events for PMD based THP migration without split

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 06/03/2020 08:27 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 06:56:57AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> On 06/02/2020 08:31 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 09:04:04AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>>> This adds the following two new VM events which will help in validating PMD
>>>> based THP migration without split. Statistics reported through these events
>>>> will help in performance debugging.
>>>>
>>>> 1. THP_PMD_MIGRATION_SUCCESS
>>>> 2. THP_PMD_MIGRATION_FAILURE
>>>
>>> There's nothing actually PMD specific about these events, is there?
>>> If we have a THP of a non-PMD size, you'd want that reported through the
>>> same statistic, wouldn't you?
>>
>> Yes, there is nothing PMD specific here and we would use the same statistics
>> for non-PMD size THP migration (if any) as well. But is THP migration really
>> supported for non-PMD sizes ? CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION depends upon
>> CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE without being specific or denying about possible
>> PUD level support. Fair enough, will drop the PMD from the events and their
>> functions.
> 
> I guess you haven't read my large pages patchset?

I believe you are referring this "[PATCH v5 00/39] Large pages in the page cache"
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/28/1755). Unfortunately, I have not been following
the series. But is there something else in particular that needs to be taken care
of as well ?