Re: [PATCH v3] mm/khugepaged: sched to numa node when collapse huge page

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu May 12 2022 - 20:36:34 EST


On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:34:07 -0400 Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 05:17:07PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 17.03.22 07:50, Bibo Mao wrote:
> > > collapse huge page will copy huge page from general small pages,
> > > dest node is calculated from most one of source pages, however
> > > THP daemon is not scheduled on dest node. The performance may be
> > > poor since huge page copying across nodes, also cache is not used
> > > for target node. With this patch, khugepaged daemon switches to
> > > the same numa node with huge page. It saves copying time and makes
> > > use of local cache better.
> > >
> > > With this patch, specint 2006 base performance is improved with 6%
> > > on Loongson 3C5000L platform with 32 cores and 8 numa nodes.
> >
> > If it helps, that's nice as long as it doesn't hurt other cases.
> >

Quite a bit of doubtful feedback and we have yet to hear from the
author. I'll drop the patch.

Bibo, please resend at a later time if you feel the patch remains
desirable. Please attempt to address the feedback via code changes
and/or changelogging.