From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
eric.whitney@hp.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@suse.de,
riel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Vm Pageout Scalability Improvements (V8) - continued
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:16:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080529131624.60772eb6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080529195030.27159.66161.sendpatchset@lts-notebook>
On Thu, 29 May 2008 15:50:30 -0400
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> wrote:
>
> The patches to follow are a continuation of the V8 "VM pageout scalability
> improvements" series that Rik van Riel posted to LKML on 23May08. These
> patches apply atop Rik's series with the following overlap:
>
> Patches 13 through 16 replace the corresponding patches in Rik's posting.
>
> Patch 13, the noreclaim lru infrastructure, now includes Kosaki Motohiro's
> memcontrol enhancements to track nonreclaimable pages.
>
> Patches 14 and 15 are largely unchanged, except for refresh. Includes
> some minor statistics formatting cleanup.
>
> Patch 16 includes a fix for an potential [unobserved] race condition during
> SHM_UNLOCK.
>
<head spins a bit>
>
> Additional patches in this series:
>
> Patches 17 through 20 keep mlocked pages off the normal [in]active LRU
> lists using the noreclaim lru infrastructure. These patches represent
> a fairly significant rework of an RFC patch originally posted by Nick Piggin.
>
> Patches 21 and 22 are optional, but recommended, enhancements to the overall
> noreclaim series.
>
> Patches 23 and 24 are optional enhancements useful during debug and testing.
>
> Patch 25 is a rather verbose document describing the noreclaim lru
> infrastructure and the use thereof to keep ramfs, SHM_LOCKED and mlocked
> pages off the normal LRU lists.
>
> ---
>
> The entire stack, including Rik's split lru patches, are holding up very
> well under stress loads. E.g., ran for over 90+ hours over the weekend on
> both x86_64 [32GB, 8core] and ia64 [32GB, 16cpu] platforms without error
> over last weekend.
>
> I think these are ready for a spin in -mm atop Rik's patches.
I was >this< close to getting onto Rik's patches (honest) but a few
other people have been kicking the tyres and seem to have caused some
punctures so I'm expecting V9?
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-29 19:50 [PATCH 00/25] Vm Pageout Scalability Improvements (V8) - continued Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:50 ` [PATCH 13/25] Noreclaim LRU Infrastructure Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:50 ` [PATCH 14/25] Noreclaim LRU Page Statistics Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:50 ` [PATCH 15/25] Ramfs and Ram Disk pages are non-reclaimable Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:50 ` [PATCH 16/25] SHM_LOCKED " Lee Schermerhorn, Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:51 ` [PATCH 17/25] Mlocked Pages " Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:51 ` [PATCH 18/25] Downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions Lee Schermerhorn, Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:51 ` [PATCH 19/25] Handle mlocked pages during map, remap, unmap Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:51 ` [PATCH 20/25] Mlocked Pages statistics Lee Schermerhorn, Nick Piggin
2008-05-29 19:51 ` [PATCH 21/25] Cull non-reclaimable pages in fault path Lee Schermerhorn, Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:51 ` [PATCH 22/25] Noreclaim and Mlocked pages vm events Lee Schermerhorn, Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:51 ` [PATCH 23/25] Noreclaim LRU scan sysctl Lee Schermerhorn, Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:51 ` [PATCH 24/25] Mlocked Pages: count attempts to free mlocked page Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 19:51 ` [PATCH 25/25] Noreclaim LRU and Mlocked Pages Documentation Lee Schermerhorn
2008-05-29 20:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-29 20:20 ` [PATCH 00/25] Vm Pageout Scalability Improvements (V8) - continued Rik van Riel
2008-05-30 1:56 ` MinChan Kim
2008-05-30 13:52 ` John Stoffel
2008-05-30 14:29 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-30 14:36 ` John Stoffel
2008-05-30 15:27 ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-30 9:27 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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