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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@purestorage.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	"open list:MEMORY MANAGEMENT" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Spencer Baugh <Spencer.baugh@purestorage.com>,
	Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: cond_resched for set_max_huge_pages and follow_hugetlb_page
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:28:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1437769711.3298.55.camel@stgolabs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150724171237.GC3458@Sligo.logfs.org>

On Fri, 2015-07-24 at 10:12 -0700, JA?rn Engel wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 08:59:59AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 23-07-15 14:54:31, Spencer Baugh wrote:
> > > From: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
> > > 
> > > ~150ms scheduler latency for both observed in the wild.
> > 
> > This is way to vague. Could you describe your problem somehow more,
> > please?
> > There are schduling points in the page allocator (when it triggers the
> > reclaim), why are those not sufficient? Or do you manage to allocate
> > many hugetlb pages without performing the reclaim and that leads to
> > soft lockups?
> 
> We don't use transparent hugepages - they cause too much latency.
> Instead we reserve somewhere around 3/4 or so of physical memory for
> hugepages.  "sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=100000" or something similar in a
> startup script.
> 
> Since it is early in boot we don't go through page reclaim.

Still, please be more verbose about what you _are_ encountering. Iow,
please have decent changelog in v2.

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-24 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-23 21:54 [PATCH] hugetlb: cond_resched for set_max_huge_pages and follow_hugetlb_page Spencer Baugh
2015-07-23 22:08 ` David Rientjes
2015-07-23 22:36   ` Jörn Engel
2015-07-23 22:54     ` David Rientjes
2015-07-23 23:09       ` Jörn Engel
2015-07-24 19:49         ` David Rientjes
2015-07-24 20:49           ` Jörn Engel
2015-07-24  6:59 ` Michal Hocko
2015-07-24 17:12   ` Jörn Engel
2015-07-24 20:28     ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]

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