[PATCH v4 0/3] mm, swap: Enable THP SWAP for PowerPC Book3S64
From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
Date: Fri Jun 19 2026 - 00:41:33 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 and provides an upper-bound architecture override for cases (e.g.
SWAP_NR_ORDERS), where the runtime conversion is not considered beneficial.
This series increases bandwidth throughput with zram backend for swapout by
around 40-50% with Radix and 100-130% with Hash (Tested by Sayali)
Note that this patch series is based out of linux-next (next-20260608).
v3->v4:
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1. Revert SWAPFILE_CLUSTER definition - since we already adjusted all the users
of SWAPFILE_CLUSTER and made those users use this value at runtime (Kairui Song)
v2 -> v3:
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1. Fixed sparse warning for swap_table_use_page reported by lkp in patch-1
RFC -> v2:
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1. Send the unused leftovers change in swap.h separately [1]
2. Changed RFC Patch-3 design from runtime SWAP_NR_ORDERS to arch override
(ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER) - suggested by Youngjun
3. Dropped RFC tag
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/68591daf0d679e5a0072d63751f187d14613e2b0.1781146877.git.ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx/
[RFC]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cover.1781000840.git.ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx/
[v2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/cover.1781170904.git.ritesh.list@xxxxxxxxx/
Ritesh Harjani (IBM) (3):
mm, swap: make SWAPFILE_CLUSTER runtime
mm, swap: allow archs to override SWAP_NR_ORDERS via ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER
powerpc: Kconfig: Enable THP_SWAP on Book3S64
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 7 +++++++
arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 1 +
include/linux/swap.h | 12 +++++++++++-
mm/swap_table.h | 6 ++----
mm/swapfile.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
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