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Patch series "Reclaim lazyfree THP without splitting", v8. This series adds support for reclaiming PMD-mapped THP marked as lazyfree without needing to first split the large folio via split_huge_pmd_address(). When the user no longer requires the pages, they would use madvise(MADV_FREE) to mark the pages as lazy free. Subsequently, they typically would not re-write to that memory again. During memory reclaim, if we detect that the large folio and its PMD are both still marked as clean and there are no unexpected references(such as GUP), so we can just discard the memory lazily, improving the efficiency of memory reclamation in this case. Performance Testing =================== On an Intel i5 CPU, reclaiming 1GiB of lazyfree THPs using mem_cgroup_force_empty() results in the following runtimes in seconds (shorter is better): -------------------------------------------- | Old | New | Change | -------------------------------------------- | 0.683426 | 0.049197 | -92.80% | -------------------------------------------- This patch (of 8): Introduce the labels walk_done and walk_abort as exit points to eliminate duplicated exit code in the pagewalk loop. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240614015138.31461-1-ioworker0@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240614015138.31461-2-ioworker0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Bang Li <libang.li@antgroup.com> Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> Cc: Jeff Xie <xiehuan09@gmail.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yin Fengwei <fengwei.yin@intel.com> Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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