From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v8
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:52:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160712025201.GH1922@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160711090224.GB9806@techsingularity.net>
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:02:24AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:47:57AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > I had tested XFS with earlier releases and noticed no major problems
> > > so later releases tested only one filesystem. Given the changes since,
> > > a retest is desirable. I've posted the current version of the series but
> > > I'll queue the tests to run over the weekend. They are quite time consuming
> > > to run unfortunately.
> >
> > Understood. I'm not following the patchset all that closely, so I
> > didn' know you'd already tested XFS.
> >
>
> It was needed anyway. Not all of them completed over the weekend. In
> particular, the NUMA machine is taking its time because many of the
> workloads are scaled by memory size and it takes longer.
>
> > > On the fsmark configuration, I configured the test to use 4K files
> > > instead of 0-sized files that normally would be used to stress inode
> > > creation/deletion. This is to have a mix of page cache and slab
> > > allocations. Shout if this does not suit your expectations.
> >
> > Sounds fine. I usually limit that test to 10 million inodes - that's
> > my "10-4" test.
> >
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> I'm not going to go through most of the results in detail. The raw data
> is verbose and not necessarily useful in most cases.
Yup, numbers look pretty good and all my concerns have gone away.
Thanks for testing, Mel! :P
Cheers,
Dave.
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david@fromorbit.com
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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/31] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v8
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:52:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160712025201.GH1922@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160711090224.GB9806@techsingularity.net>
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:02:24AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:47:57AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > I had tested XFS with earlier releases and noticed no major problems
> > > so later releases tested only one filesystem. Given the changes since,
> > > a retest is desirable. I've posted the current version of the series but
> > > I'll queue the tests to run over the weekend. They are quite time consuming
> > > to run unfortunately.
> >
> > Understood. I'm not following the patchset all that closely, so I
> > didn' know you'd already tested XFS.
> >
>
> It was needed anyway. Not all of them completed over the weekend. In
> particular, the NUMA machine is taking its time because many of the
> workloads are scaled by memory size and it takes longer.
>
> > > On the fsmark configuration, I configured the test to use 4K files
> > > instead of 0-sized files that normally would be used to stress inode
> > > creation/deletion. This is to have a mix of page cache and slab
> > > allocations. Shout if this does not suit your expectations.
> >
> > Sounds fine. I usually limit that test to 10 million inodes - that's
> > my "10-4" test.
> >
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> I'm not going to go through most of the results in detail. The raw data
> is verbose and not necessarily useful in most cases.
Yup, numbers look pretty good and all my concerns have gone away.
Thanks for testing, Mel! :P
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-12 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-01 15:37 [PATCH 00/31] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v8 Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 01/31] mm, vmstat: add infrastructure for per-node vmstats Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 02/31] mm, vmscan: move lru_lock to the node Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 03/31] mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 04/31] mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 05/31] mm, vmscan: have kswapd only scan based on the highest requested zone Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 06/31] mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 07/31] mm, vmscan: remove balance gap Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 08/31] mm, vmscan: simplify the logic deciding whether kswapd sleeps Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 09/31] mm, vmscan: by default have direct reclaim only shrink once per node Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 10/31] mm, vmscan: remove duplicate logic clearing node congestion and dirty state Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 11/31] mm: vmscan: do not reclaim from kswapd if there is any eligible zone Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 12/31] mm, vmscan: make shrink_node decisions more node-centric Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 13/31] mm, memcg: move memcg limit enforcement from zones to nodes Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 14/31] mm, workingset: make working set detection node-aware Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 15/31] mm, page_alloc: consider dirtyable memory in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 16/31] mm: move page mapped accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 17/31] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 18/31] mm: move most file-based accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 19/31] mm: move vmscan writes and file write " Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 20/31] mm, vmscan: only wakeup kswapd once per node for the requested classzone Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 21/31] mm, page_alloc: Wake kswapd based on the highest eligible zone Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 22/31] mm: convert zone_reclaim to node_reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 23/31] mm, vmscan: Avoid passing in classzone_idx unnecessarily to shrink_node Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 24/31] mm, vmscan: Avoid passing in classzone_idx unnecessarily to compaction_ready Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 25/31] mm, vmscan: add classzone information to tracepoints Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 26/31] mm, page_alloc: remove fair zone allocation policy Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 27/31] mm: page_alloc: cache the last node whose dirty limit is reached Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 28/31] mm: vmstat: replace __count_zone_vm_events with a zone id equivalent Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 29/31] mm: vmstat: account per-zone stalls and pages skipped during reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 30/31] mm, vmstat: print node-based stats in zoneinfo file Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 31/31] mm, vmstat: Remove zone and node double accounting by approximating retries Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-07 23:27 ` [PATCH 00/31] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v8 Dave Chinner
2016-07-07 23:27 ` Dave Chinner
2016-07-08 9:52 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-08 9:52 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-11 0:47 ` Dave Chinner
2016-07-11 0:47 ` Dave Chinner
2016-07-11 9:02 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-11 9:02 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 2:52 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-07-12 2:52 ` Dave Chinner
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-01 20:01 Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-04 1:37 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-04 1:37 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-04 4:34 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-04 4:34 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-04 8:04 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-04 8:04 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-04 8:04 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-04 9:55 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-04 9:55 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-06 1:51 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-06 1:51 ` Minchan Kim
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