Introduce pinned extents to contain unpurgeable pages

Some pages (e.g., hugetlb pages) cannot be purged, and should be
prioritized for reuse.  A custom extent_alloc hook signals this by
OR'ing EXTENT_ALLOC_FLAG_PINNED into the low bits of the returned
pointer; jemalloc strips the flag bits and caches pinned extents in
a dedicated ecache_pinned, separate from the dirty/muzzy decay
pipeline.

Pinned extents do not coalesce eagerly, except for ones larger than
SC_LARGE_MINCLASS.  A prefer-small policy reuses the smallest fitting
pinned extent, to avoid unnecessary split/fragmentation.
This commit is contained in:
Bin Liu
2026-04-19 22:56:22 -07:00
committed by Guangli Dai
parent 7638093c73
commit be2de8ccd8
22 changed files with 977 additions and 86 deletions

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@@ -2062,6 +2062,9 @@ if test "x${LG_PAGE}" != "xundefined" ; then
else
AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot determine value for LG_PAGE])
fi
if test "${LG_PAGE}" -lt 8 ; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([LG_PAGE must be at least 8 (PAGE >= 256)])
fi
AC_ARG_WITH([lg_hugepage],
[AS_HELP_STRING([--with-lg-hugepage=<lg-hugepage>],