From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mmap over nfs leads to excessive system load
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:31:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051116043152.GF6916@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051115234731.9539.qmail@web34105.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 03:47:30PM -0800, Kenny Simpson wrote:
> CPU: P4 / Xeon with 2 hyper-threads, speed 2658.47 MHz (estimated)
> Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask
> of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000
> samples % symbol name
> 412585 14.6687 find_get_pages_tag
> 343898 12.2267 mpage_writepages
> 290144 10.3155 release_pages
> 288631 10.2617 unlock_page
> 286181 10.1746 pci_conf1_write
> 267619 9.5147 clear_page_dirty_for_io
> 128128 4.5554 __lookup_tag
> 120895 4.2982 page_waitqueue
> 52739 1.8750 _spin_lock_irqsave
> 43623 1.5509 skb_copy_bits
> 30157 1.0722 __wake_up_bit
> 29973 1.0656 _read_lock_irqsave
67%, or 2/3 of the samples, are in the top 6 functions. Have you tried
instruction-level profiling? It would be interesting to see what
codepaths within the functions are the largest offenders.
-- wli
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2005-11-15 23:47 ` mmap over nfs leads to excessive system load Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 4:31 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2005-11-16 6:05 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 7:45 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 14:03 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 15:01 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 17:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 18:00 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 18:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 18:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-17 13:08 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-11-16 19:09 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 20:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 20:56 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 21:02 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 21:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 21:17 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 21:41 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 21:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 22:04 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 22:39 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 23:06 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-17 15:40 ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-17 16:56 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-17 16:01 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-17 21:04 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-17 21:15 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-18 16:55 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-18 17:26 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-18 21:57 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-21 17:13 ` infinite loop? with mmap, nfs, pwrite, O_DIRECT Kenny Simpson
2005-11-21 17:49 ` Chuck Lever
2005-11-21 18:40 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-21 20:39 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-21 21:39 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-21 22:42 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-21 23:14 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-21 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-21 23:58 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-22 0:09 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-22 0:18 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-22 0:25 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-22 0:28 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-22 0:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-30 20:04 ` nfs unhappiness with memory pressure Kenny Simpson
2005-11-30 21:42 ` Keith Mannthey
2005-11-30 22:18 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-01 14:49 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-05 18:01 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-05 19:44 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-05 20:14 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-05 20:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-05 20:33 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-05 20:52 ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-05 21:18 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-05 21:23 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-05 23:40 ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-06 0:48 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-05 21:51 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-05 21:04 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-05 22:39 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-06 3:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-06 3:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-06 4:40 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-06 5:42 ` Nick Piggin
2005-12-06 12:18 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-12-06 19:31 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-12-06 15:51 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-21 21:54 ` infinite loop? with mmap, nfs, pwrite, O_DIRECT Kenny Simpson
2005-11-21 20:12 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-17 17:02 ` mmap over nfs leads to excessive system load Chuck Lever
2005-11-17 17:07 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-18 19:59 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 21:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 22:23 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 22:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-16 23:10 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-17 0:06 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-17 0:25 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-17 0:28 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-17 0:38 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-17 0:47 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-16 18:48 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-16 19:06 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-08 19:25 Kenny Simpson
2005-11-08 20:01 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-11-08 20:18 ` Kenny Simpson
2005-11-08 20:57 ` Kenny Simpson
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2005-11-08 18:47 Kenny Simpson
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