Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: control mthp per process/cgroup

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 05:13:27PM +0800, Nanyong Sun wrote:
> Now the large folio control interfaces is system wide and tend to be
> default on: file systems use large folio by default if supported,
> mTHP is tend to default enable when boot [1].
> When large folio enabled, some workloads have performance benefit,
> but some may not and some side effects can happen: the memory usage
> may increase, direct reclaim maybe more frequently because of more
> large order allocations, result in cpu usage also increases. We observed
> this on a product environment which run nginx, the pgscan_direct count
> increased a lot than before, can reach to 3000 times per second, and
> disable file large folio can fix this.

Can you share any details of your nginx workload that shows a regression?
The heuristics for allocating large folios are completely untuned, so
having data for a workload which performs better with small folios is
very valuable.