From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configurable reclaim batch size
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:56:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070917215615.685a5378@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709171053040.26860@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter
<clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > It increases the lock hold times though. Otoh it might work out with the
> > lock placement.
>
> Yeah may be good for NUMA.
Might, I'd just like a _little_ justification for an extra tunable.
> > Do you have any numbers that show this is worthwhile?
>
> Tried to run AIM7 but the improvements are in the noise. I need a tests
> that really does large memory allocation and stresses the LRU. I could
> code something up but then Lee's patch addresses some of the same issues.
> Is there any standard test that shows LRU handling regressions?
hehe, I wish. I was just hoping you'd done this patch as a result of an
actual problem and not a hunch.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 22:23 [PATCH] Configurable reclaim batch size Christoph Lameter
2007-09-14 23:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-17 17:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-17 19:56 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2007-09-17 20:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-17 20:48 ` Balbir Singh
2007-09-17 21:24 ` Christoph Lameter
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