From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] Cpuset aware writeback
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:01:58 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701170901.58757.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070116054743.15358.77287.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
> Secondly we modify the dirty limit calculation to be based
> on the acctive cpuset.
The global dirty limit definitely seems to be a problem
in several cases, but my feeling is that the cpuset is the wrong unit
to keep track of it. Most likely it should be more fine grained.
> If we are in a cpuset then we select only inodes for writeback
> that have pages on the nodes of the cpuset.
Is there any indication this change helps on smaller systems
or is it purely a large system optimization?
> B. We add a new counter NR_UNRECLAIMABLE that is subtracted
> from the available pages in a node. This allows us to
> accurately calculate the dirty ratio even if large portions
> of the node have been allocated for huge pages or for
> slab pages.
That sounds like a useful change by itself.
-Andi
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/8] Cpuset aware writeback
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:01:58 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701170901.58757.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070116054743.15358.77287.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
> Secondly we modify the dirty limit calculation to be based
> on the acctive cpuset.
The global dirty limit definitely seems to be a problem
in several cases, but my feeling is that the cpuset is the wrong unit
to keep track of it. Most likely it should be more fine grained.
> If we are in a cpuset then we select only inodes for writeback
> that have pages on the nodes of the cpuset.
Is there any indication this change helps on smaller systems
or is it purely a large system optimization?
> B. We add a new counter NR_UNRECLAIMABLE that is subtracted
> from the available pages in a node. This allows us to
> accurately calculate the dirty ratio even if large portions
> of the node have been allocated for huge pages or for
> slab pages.
That sounds like a useful change by itself.
-Andi
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Thread overview: 220+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-16 5:47 [RFC 0/8] Cpuset aware writeback Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:47 ` [RFC 1/8] Convert higest_possible_node_id() into nr_node_ids Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 22:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-16 22:05 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-17 3:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 3:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 4:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-17 4:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-17 4:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 4:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:47 ` [RFC 2/8] Add a map to inodes to track dirty pages per node Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:47 ` [RFC 3/8] Add a nodemask to pdflush functions Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:48 ` [RFC 4/8] Per cpuset dirty ratio handling and writeout Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:48 ` [RFC 5/8] Make writeout during reclaim cpuset aware Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 22:07 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-16 22:07 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-17 4:20 ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-17 4:20 ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-17 4:28 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-17 4:28 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-17 4:36 ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-17 4:36 ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-17 5:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-17 5:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-17 6:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 6:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 4:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 4:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:48 ` [RFC 6/8] Throttle vm writeout per cpuset Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:48 ` [RFC 7/8] Exclude unreclaimable pages from dirty ration calculation Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-18 15:48 ` Nikita Danilov
2007-01-18 15:48 ` Nikita Danilov
2007-01-18 19:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-18 19:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:48 ` [RFC 8/8] Reduce inode memory usage for systems with a high MAX_NUMNODES Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 5:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 19:52 ` Paul Menage
2007-01-16 19:52 ` Paul Menage
2007-01-16 20:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 20:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 20:06 ` Paul Menage
2007-01-16 20:06 ` Paul Menage
2007-01-16 20:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 20:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 7:38 ` [RFC 0/8] Cpuset aware writeback Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 7:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 20:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 20:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 9:25 ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-16 9:25 ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-16 17:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 17:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 21:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-16 21:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-16 22:08 ` [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 22:08 ` [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control, " Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-16 22:27 ` [PATCH] " Trond Myklebust
2007-01-16 22:27 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-17 2:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-17 2:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-17 6:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-17 6:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-17 8:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-17 8:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-17 13:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-17 13:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-17 14:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-17 14:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-17 14:45 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-17 14:45 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-17 20:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 20:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 21:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-17 21:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-17 21:54 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-17 21:54 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-18 13:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-18 13:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-18 15:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-18 15:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-19 9:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-19 9:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-19 13:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-19 13:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-19 16:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-19 16:51 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-19 17:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-19 17:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-19 17:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-19 17:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-19 17:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-19 17:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-19 18:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-19 18:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-19 18:26 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-19 18:26 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-19 18:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-19 18:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-20 7:01 ` [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v3 Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-20 7:01 ` [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v3, nfs: fix congestion control Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-22 16:12 ` [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v3 Trond Myklebust
2007-01-22 16:12 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-25 15:32 ` [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v4 Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-25 15:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-26 5:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 5:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 8:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-26 8:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-26 8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-26 8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-26 5:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 5:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 5:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 5:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 6:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 6:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 6:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 6:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-26 8:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-26 8:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-26 8:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 8:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-26 9:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-26 9:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-02-20 12:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-02-20 12:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-22 17:59 ` [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v3 Christoph Lameter
2007-01-22 17:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 23:15 ` [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-17 23:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-16 22:15 ` [RFC 0/8] Cpuset aware writeback Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 22:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 23:40 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-16 23:40 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 0:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 0:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 1:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 1:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 1:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 1:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 2:34 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 2:34 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 3:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 3:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 4:02 ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-17 4:02 ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-17 4:05 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 4:05 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 6:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 6:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 7:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 7:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 8:01 ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-17 8:01 ` Paul Jackson
2007-01-17 9:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 9:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 19:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 19:43 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-17 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-17 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-18 1:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-18 1:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-18 1:25 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-18 1:25 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-18 5:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-18 5:21 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 23:44 ` David Chinner
2007-01-16 23:44 ` David Chinner
2007-01-16 22:01 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-01-16 22:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-01-16 22:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-01-16 22:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-02 1:38 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-02-02 1:38 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-02-02 2:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-02 2:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-02 4:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-02 4:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-02 5:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-02 5:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-02 6:02 ` Neil Brown
2007-02-02 6:02 ` Neil Brown
2007-02-02 6:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-02 6:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-02 6:41 ` Neil Brown
2007-02-02 6:41 ` Neil Brown
2007-02-02 7:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-02 7:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-21 21:11 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-03-21 21:11 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-03-21 21:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-21 21:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-21 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-21 21:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-21 21:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-21 21:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 2:07 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-04-19 2:07 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-04-19 2:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 2:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 7:52 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-04-19 7:52 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-04-19 16:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-19 16:03 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-21 1:37 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-04-21 1:37 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-04-21 1:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-21 1:48 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-21 8:15 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-04-21 8:15 ` Ethan Solomita
2007-04-21 15:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-21 15:40 ` Christoph Lameter
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