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.
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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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@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ typedef struct ctl_stats_s {
size_t resident;
size_t mapped;
size_t retained;
size_t pinned;
background_thread_stats_t background_thread;
mutex_prof_data_t mutex_prof_data[mutex_prof_num_global_mutexes];