Re: [PATCH V6 ] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for memoryless cpu and limit readahead pages

[Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 02/18/2014 03:19 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 18-02-14 12:55:38, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>> Currently max_sane_readahead() returns zero on the cpu having no local memory node
>> which leads to readahead failure. Fix the readahead failure by returning
>> minimum of (requested pages, 512). Users running application on a memory-less cpu
>> which needs readahead such as streaming application see considerable boost in the
>> performance.
>>
>> Result:
>> fadvise experiment with FADV_WILLNEED on a PPC machine having memoryless CPU
>> with 1GB testfile ( 12 iterations) yielded around 46.66% improvement.
>>
>> fadvise experiment with FADV_WILLNEED on a x240 machine with 1GB testfile
>> 32GB* 4G RAM  numa machine ( 12 iterations) showed no impact on the normal
>> NUMA cases w/ patch.
>    Can you try one more thing please? Compare startup time of some big
> executable (Firefox or LibreOffice come to my mind) for the patched and
> normal kernel on a machine which wasn't hit by this NUMA issue. And don't
> forget to do "echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" before each test to flush
> the caches. If this doesn't show significant differences, I'm OK with the
> patch.
>

Thanks Honza, I checked with firefox (starting to particular point)..
I do not see any difference. Both the case took around 14sec.

  ( some time it is even faster.. may be because we do not do free page 
calculation?. )

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