[PATCH v2] riscv: enable THP_SWAP for RV64

Jisheng Zhang jszhang at kernel.org
Sat Aug 27 02:58:15 PDT 2022


I have a Sipeed Lichee RV dock board which only has 512MB DDR, so
memory optimizations such as swap on zram are helpful. As is seen
in commit d0637c505f8a ("arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64") and
commit bd4c82c22c367e ("mm, THP, swap: delay splitting THP after
swapped out"), THP_SWAP can improve the swap throughput significantly.

Enable THP_SWAP for RV64, testing the micro-benchmark which is
introduced by commit d0637c505f8a ("arm64: enable THP_SWAP for arm64")
shows below numbers on the Lichee RV dock board:

thp swp throughput w/o patch: 66908 bytes/ms (mean of 10 tests)
thp swp throughput w/ patch: 322638 bytes/ms (mean of 10 tests)

Improved by 382%!

Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones at ventanamicro.com>
---
Since v1:
 - collect reviewed-by tag
 - make ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP rely on HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
   instead

 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index ed66c31e4655..79e52441e18b 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ config RISCV
 	select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
 	select ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
 	select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if 64BIT
+	select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP if HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 	select BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET if !MMU
 	select BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT if MMU
 	select CLONE_BACKWARDS
-- 
2.34.1




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