[PATCH v13 mm-new 14/16] khugepaged: avoid unnecessary mTHP collapse attempts

Nico Pache posted 16 patches 3 hours ago
[PATCH v13 mm-new 14/16] khugepaged: avoid unnecessary mTHP collapse attempts
Posted by Nico Pache 3 hours ago
There are cases where, if an attempted collapse fails, all subsequent
orders are guaranteed to also fail. Avoid these collapse attempts by
bailing out early.

Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index fcb927cd5456..daf39aab7e86 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1503,9 +1503,42 @@ static int mthp_collapse(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
 			ret = collapse_huge_page(mm, collapse_address, referenced,
 						 unmapped, cc, mmap_locked,
 						 order);
-			if (ret == SCAN_SUCCEED) {
+
+			switch (ret) {
+			/* Cases were we continue to next collapse candidate */
+			case SCAN_SUCCEED:
 				collapsed += nr_pte_entries;
+				fallthrough;
+			case SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE:
 				continue;
+			/* Cases were lower orders might still succeed */
+			case SCAN_LACK_REFERENCED_PAGE:
+			case SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE:
+			case SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE:
+			case SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE:
+			case SCAN_PAGE_LOCK:
+			case SCAN_PAGE_COUNT:
+			case SCAN_PAGE_LRU:
+			case SCAN_PAGE_NULL:
+			case SCAN_DEL_PAGE_LRU:
+			case SCAN_PTE_NON_PRESENT:
+			case SCAN_PTE_UFFD_WP:
+			case SCAN_ALLOC_HUGE_PAGE_FAIL:
+				goto next_order;
+			/* Cases were no further collapse is possible */
+			case SCAN_CGROUP_CHARGE_FAIL:
+			case SCAN_COPY_MC:
+			case SCAN_ADDRESS_RANGE:
+			case SCAN_NO_PTE_TABLE:
+			case SCAN_ANY_PROCESS:
+			case SCAN_VMA_NULL:
+			case SCAN_VMA_CHECK:
+			case SCAN_SCAN_ABORT:
+			case SCAN_PAGE_ANON:
+			case SCAN_PMD_MAPPED:
+			case SCAN_FAIL:
+			default:
+				return collapsed;
 			}
 		}
 
-- 
2.51.1