From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux-FSDevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] Improve sequential read throughput v4r8
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:47:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1404146883-21414-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> (raw)
Changelog since V3
o Push down kwapd changes to cover the balance gap
o Drop drop page distribution patch
Changelog since V2
o Simply fair zone policy cost reduction
o Drop CFQ patch
Changelog since v1
o Rebase to v3.16-rc2
o Move CFQ patch to end of series where it can be rejected easier if necessary
o Introduce page-reclaim related patch related to kswapd/fairzone interactions
o Rework fast zone policy patch
IO performance since 3.0 has been a mixed bag. In many respects we are
better and in some we are worse and one of those places is sequential
read throughput. This is visible in a number of benchmarks but I looked
at tiobench the closest. This is using ext3 on a mid-range desktop and
the series applied.
3.16.0-rc2 3.0.0 3.16.0-rc2
vanilla vanilla fairzone-v4r5
Min SeqRead-MB/sec-1 120.92 ( 0.00%) 133.65 ( 10.53%) 140.68 ( 16.34%)
Min SeqRead-MB/sec-2 100.25 ( 0.00%) 121.74 ( 21.44%) 118.13 ( 17.84%)
Min SeqRead-MB/sec-4 96.27 ( 0.00%) 113.48 ( 17.88%) 109.84 ( 14.10%)
Min SeqRead-MB/sec-8 83.55 ( 0.00%) 97.87 ( 17.14%) 89.62 ( 7.27%)
Min SeqRead-MB/sec-16 66.77 ( 0.00%) 82.59 ( 23.69%) 70.49 ( 5.57%)
Overall system CPU usage is reduced
3.16.0-rc2 3.0.0 3.16.0-rc2
vanilla vanilla fairzone-v4
User 390.13 251.45 396.13
System 404.41 295.13 389.61
Elapsed 5412.45 5072.42 5163.49
This series does not fully restore throughput performance to 3.0 levels
but it brings it close for lower thread counts. Higher thread counts are
known to be worse than 3.0 due to CFQ changes but there is no appetite
for changing the defaults there.
include/linux/mmzone.h | 207 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
include/linux/swap.h | 9 --
include/trace/events/pagemap.h | 16 ++--
mm/page_alloc.c | 126 ++++++++++++++-----------
mm/swap.c | 4 +-
mm/vmscan.c | 46 ++++-----
mm/vmstat.c | 4 +-
7 files changed, 208 insertions(+), 204 deletions(-)
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1.8.4.5
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next reply other threads:[~2014-06-30 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-30 16:47 Mel Gorman [this message]
2014-06-30 16:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm: pagemap: Avoid unnecessary overhead when tracepoints are deactivated Mel Gorman
2014-06-30 16:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: Rearrange zone fields into read-only, page alloc, statistics and page reclaim lines Mel Gorman
2014-06-30 16:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm: vmscan: Do not reclaim from lower zones if they are balanced Mel Gorman
2014-06-30 16:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm: page_alloc: Reduce cost of the fair zone allocation policy Mel Gorman
2014-06-30 21:14 ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-30 21:51 ` Mel Gorman
2014-06-30 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2014-07-01 8:02 ` Mel Gorman
2014-07-01 17:16 ` [PATCH 0/5] Improve sequential read throughput v4r8 Johannes Weiner
2014-07-01 18:39 ` Mel Gorman
2014-07-01 20:58 ` Mel Gorman
2014-07-01 21:25 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-07-02 15:44 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-07-02 15:53 ` Mel Gorman
2014-07-01 22:38 ` Dave Chinner
2014-07-01 23:09 ` Mel Gorman
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