From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
lkml@rtr.ca, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix page_alloc for larger I/O segments (improved)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:13:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071214181339.GW26334@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071214174236.GA28613@csn.ul.ie>
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 05:42:37PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Regrettably this interferes with anti-fragmentation because the "next" page
> on the list on return from rmqueue_bulk is not guaranteed to be of the right
> mobility type. I fixed it as an additional patch but it adds additional cost
> that should not be necessary and it's visible in microbenchmark results on
> at least one machine.
Is this patch to be preferred to the one Andrew Morton posted to do
list_for_each_entry_reverse?
I'll send it to our DB team to see if this improves our numbers at all.
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2007-12-13 22:02 ` QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ? Andrew Morton
2007-12-13 22:15 ` James Bottomley
2007-12-13 22:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-13 22:33 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-13 23:13 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-14 0:05 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-14 0:30 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-14 0:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14 0:42 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-14 0:46 ` [PATCH] fix page_alloc for larger I/O segments (improved) Mark Lord
2007-12-14 0:57 ` James Bottomley
2007-12-14 1:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14 2:23 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-14 17:42 ` Mel Gorman
2007-12-14 18:07 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-16 21:56 ` Mel Gorman
2007-12-14 18:13 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-12-14 18:30 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-20 22:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-12-14 0:47 ` QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ? Mark Lord
2007-12-14 11:50 ` Mel Gorman
2007-12-14 13:57 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-14 0:40 ` [PATCH] fix page_alloc for larger I/O segments Mark Lord
2007-12-14 1:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14 4:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-12-15 1:09 ` QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER: not working in 2.6.24 ? Mel Gorman
2007-12-15 2:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-15 5:55 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-16 21:55 ` Mel Gorman
2007-12-17 19:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-12-18 2:42 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-13 22:17 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-13 22:02 ` VM allocates pages in reverse order again Matthew Wilcox
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