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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index 5fbc3d89bb07..b187d618452f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -57,13 +57,14 @@ prominent because the size of each page isn't as huge as the PMD-sized variant and there is less memory to clear in each page fault. Some architectures also employ TLB compression mechanisms to squeeze more entries in when a set of PTEs are virtually and physically contiguous -and approporiately aligned. In this case, TLB misses will occur less +and appropriately aligned. In this case, TLB misses will occur less often. THP can be enabled system wide or restricted to certain tasks or even memory ranges inside task's address space. Unless THP is completely disabled, there is ``khugepaged`` daemon that scans memory and -collapses sequences of basic pages into PMD-sized huge pages. +collapses sequences of basic pages into huge pages of either PMD size +or mTHP sizes, if the system is configured to do so. The THP behaviour is controlled via :ref:`sysfs <thp_sysfs>` interface and using madvise(2) and prctl(2) system calls. @@ -210,7 +211,7 @@ PMD-mappable transparent hugepage:: cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hpage_pmd_size All THPs at fault and collapse time will be added to _deferred_list, -and will therefore be split under memory presure if they are considered +and will therefore be split under memory pressure if they are considered "underused". A THP is underused if the number of zero-filled pages in the THP is above max_ptes_none (see below). It is possible to disable this behaviour by writing 0 to shrink_underused, and enable it by writing @@ -219,11 +220,11 @@ this behaviour by writing 0 to shrink_underused, and enable it by writing echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shrink_underused echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shrink_underused -khugepaged will be automatically started when PMD-sized THP is enabled +khugepaged will be automatically started when any THP size is enabled (either of the per-size anon control or the top-level control are set to "always" or "madvise"), and it'll be automatically shutdown when -PMD-sized THP is disabled (when both the per-size anon control and the -top-level control are "never") +all THP sizes are disabled (when both the per-size anon control and the +top-level control are "never"). process THP controls -------------------- @@ -265,8 +266,8 @@ Khugepaged controls ------------------- .. note:: - khugepaged currently only searches for opportunities to collapse to - PMD-sized THP and no attempt is made to collapse to other THP + khugepaged currently only searches for opportunities to collapse file/shmem + to PMD-sized THP. Only anonymous memory will attempt to collapse to other THP sizes. khugepaged runs usually at low frequency so while one may not want to @@ -296,11 +297,13 @@ allocation failure to throttle the next allocation attempt:: The khugepaged progress can be seen in the number of pages collapsed (note that this counter may not be an exact count of the number of pages collapsed, since "collapsed" could mean multiple things: (1) A PTE mapping -being replaced by a PMD mapping, or (2) All 4K physical pages replaced by -one 2M hugepage. Each may happen independently, or together, depending on -the type of memory and the failures that occur. As such, this value should -be interpreted roughly as a sign of progress, and counters in /proc/vmstat -consulted for more accurate accounting):: +being replaced by a PMD mapping, or (2) physical pages replaced by one +hugepage of various sizes (PMD-sized or mTHP). Each may happen independently, +or together, depending on the type of memory and the failures that occur. +As such, this value should be interpreted roughly as a sign of progress, +and counters in /proc/vmstat consulted for more accurate accounting. +Per-order mTHP collapse statistics are also available under +/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-<size>kB/stats/):: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_collapsed @@ -308,16 +311,21 @@ for each pass:: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/full_scans -``max_ptes_none`` specifies how many extra small pages (that are -not already mapped) can be allocated when collapsing a group -of small pages into one large page:: +``max_ptes_none`` specifies how many empty (none/zero) pages are allowed +when collapsing a group of small pages into one large page:: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none -A higher value leads to use additional memory for programs. -A lower value leads to gain less thp performance. Value of -max_ptes_none can waste cpu time very little, you can -ignore it. +For PMD-sized THP collapse, this directly limits the number of empty pages +allowed in the 2MB region. + +For mTHP collapse, only 0 or (HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1) are supported. At +HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1, we collapse to the highest possible order. Any intermediate +value will emit a warning and mTHP collapse will default to max_ptes_none=0. + +A higher value allows more empty pages, potentially leading to more memory +usage but better THP performance. A lower value is more conservative and +may result in fewer THP collapses. ``max_ptes_swap`` specifies how many pages can be brought in from swap when collapsing a group of pages into a transparent huge page:: @@ -337,6 +345,15 @@ that THP is shared. Exceeding the number would block the collapse:: A higher value may increase memory footprint for some workloads. +.. note:: + For mTHP collapse, khugepaged does not support collapsing regions that + contain shared or swapped out pages, as this could lead to continuous + promotion to higher orders. The collapse will fail if any shared or + swapped PTEs are encountered during the scan. + + Currently, madvise_collapse only supports collapsing to PMD-sized THPs + and does not attempt mTHP collapses. + Boot parameters =============== @@ -639,6 +656,14 @@ anon_fault_fallback_charge instead falls back to using huge pages with lower orders or small pages even though the allocation was successful. +collapse_alloc + is incremented every time a huge page is successfully allocated for a + khugepaged collapse. + +collapse_alloc_failed + is incremented every time a huge page allocation fails during a + khugepaged collapse. + zswpout is incremented every time a huge page is swapped out to zswap in one piece without splitting. @@ -706,6 +731,20 @@ nr_anon_partially_mapped an anonymous THP as "partially mapped" and count it here, even though it is not actually partially mapped anymore. +collapse_exceed_none_pte + The number of collapse attempts that failed due to exceeding the + max_ptes_none threshold. + +collapse_exceed_swap_pte + The number of collapse attempts that failed due to exceeding the + max_ptes_swap threshold. For non-PMD orders this occurs if a mTHP range + contains at least one swap PTE. + +collapse_exceed_shared_pte + The number of collapse attempts that failed due to exceeding the + max_ptes_shared threshold. For non-PMD orders this occurs if a mTHP range + contains at least one shared PTE. + As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help @@ -724,7 +763,7 @@ compact_fail but failed. It is possible to establish how long the stalls were using the function -tracer to record how long was spent in __alloc_pages() and +tracer to record how long was spent in the page allocator and using the mm_page_alloc tracepoint to identify which allocations were for huge pages. |