Re: SLUB: Increasing partial pages

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:39:31PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Ahhh.. Good to hear that the issue on x86_64 gets better. I am still 
> waiting for a test with the patchset that I did specifically to address 
> your regression: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/27/245 (where I tried to 
> come up with an in kernel benchmark that exposes the issue even more)? It 
> is much more likely now that this patchset in mm addresses your regression 
> since the hackbench performance improvement fix already reduce it 
> partially.

I sent you a mail on December 6th ... here are the contents of that
mail:

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On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:54:44PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Hmmmm... I have been running them for awhile and they have been in mm 
> for awhile. Never seen a boot issue.

After investigation, there are two issues.

Patch 8/10 oopses during the run, typically after about an hour.

Patch 10/10 oopses during boot.  I haven't been able to reproduce this
on my quad-core machine, but it happens every time for them on their
dual quad-core machine.

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Applying just patches 1-7 and 9 leads to a slight (0.34%) performance
reduction compared to slub.  That is 6.45% versus slab, reduces to 6.79%
with the 8 patches applied.

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