Re: [PATCH] per-zone^Wnode kswapd process

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> ...
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 05:02:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Why do I see only one kswapd here?
> > Are you claiming an overall 4x improvement, or what?
> > I'll add some instrumentation whch tells us how many pages
> > kswapd is reclaiming versus direct reclaim.
> 
> I can catch the others running if I refresh more often:
> 
>    38 root      15   0     0    0     0 DW    4.8  0.0   1:57 kswapd0
>    36 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    2.7  0.0   0:16 kswapd2
> 
>  4779 wli       22   0  4476 3604  1648 R     9.2  0.0   0:58 top
>    37 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    2.6  0.0   0:16 kswapd1
> 
>    38 root      15   0     0    0     0 DW    2.9  0.0   2:12 kswapd0
>    36 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    1.8  0.0   0:22 kswapd2
> 
>  4779 wli       25   0  4476 3600  1648 R     7.4  0.0   1:18 top
>    37 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    2.7  0.0   0:21 kswapd1
> 
>  4779 wli       24   0  4476 3600  1648 R    37.5  0.0   1:49 top
>    37 root      16   0     0    0     0 RW   11.1  0.0   0:23 kswapd1
> 
>  4779 wli       25   0  4476 3600  1648 R    14.1  0.0   1:51 top
>    35 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    6.9  0.0   0:24 kswapd3
> 
>    38 root      15   0     0    0     0 RW    2.9  0.0   2:29 kswapd0
>    37 root      16   0     0    0     0 SW    1.4  0.0   0:28 kswapd1
> 
> etc.
> 
> Not sure about baselines. I'm happier because there's more cpu
> utilization. kswapd0 is relatively busy so the other ones take some
> load off of it. The benchmark isn't quite done yet. I think four
> dbench 512's in parallel might be easier to extract results from.
> tiobench also looks like it's getting some cpu:
> 

OK, thanks.

Could you please go into /proc/<pif_of_kswapd>/cpu and double
check that each kswapd is only racking up points on the CPUs
which it is supposed to be running on?  As a little sanity check...

(hm.  Why isn't cpus_allowed displayed from in there?)

Also, we need to double check that I'm not completely full of
unmentionables, and that kswapd really is doing useful work there.
I can check that.

I'll do an mm4 in a mo (as soon as I work out who did the dud patch
which stops it booting) and we can see what the kwapd-versus-direct-reclaim
ratio looks like.