From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix count_vm_event preempt in memory compaction direct reclaim
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:32:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100505153249.GR20979@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100505152531.GK5835@random.random>
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 05:25:31PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 04:14:39PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > How about the following as an alternative to dropp migrate_prep?
>
> Yep this is what I'd like too... btw in the comments you also mention
> IPI but I guess that's ok.
It was an oversight. I've corrected it now.
> About the cost I'm not sure but I would
> expect the cost of this to be even higher because it also has to run
> the scheduler unlike a real IPI.
>
Fair point. I wouldn't be too sure what the relative costs are but either
way it's bad and unnecessary in the case of compaction.
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-20 21:01 [PATCH 0/14] Memory Compaction v8 Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 01/14] mm,migration: Take a reference to the anon_vma before migrating Mel Gorman
2010-04-21 2:49 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 02/14] mm,migration: Share the anon_vma ref counts between KSM and page migration Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 03/14] mm,migration: Do not try to migrate unmapped anonymous pages Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 04/14] mm,migration: Allow the migration of PageSwapCache pages Mel Gorman
2010-04-21 14:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-21 15:00 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-21 15:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-21 15:14 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-21 15:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-21 15:34 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-21 15:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-22 9:28 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-22 9:46 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-22 10:13 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-22 10:31 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-22 10:51 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-22 14:14 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-22 14:18 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-22 15:40 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-22 16:13 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-22 19:29 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-22 19:40 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-22 23:52 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-23 9:03 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-22 14:23 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-22 14:40 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-22 15:44 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-23 18:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-04-23 19:23 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-23 19:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-04-23 21:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-04-24 10:52 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-24 11:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-04-24 11:59 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-24 14:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-04-26 21:54 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-26 22:11 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-26 22:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-04-25 14:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-04-27 9:40 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-27 10:41 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-27 11:12 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-27 15:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-04-24 10:50 ` Mel Gorman
2010-04-22 15:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-04-23 3:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-23 4:55 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-21 23:59 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-22 0:11 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 05/14] mm: Allow CONFIG_MIGRATION to be set without CONFIG_NUMA or memory hot-remove Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 06/14] mm: Export unusable free space index via debugfs Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 07/14] mm: Export fragmentation " Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 08/14] mm: Move definition for LRU isolation modes to a header Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 09/14] mm,compaction: Memory compaction core Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 10/14] mm,compaction: Add /proc trigger for memory compaction Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 11/14] mm,compaction: Add /sys trigger for per-node " Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 12/14] mm,compaction: Direct compact when a high-order allocation fails Mel Gorman
2010-05-05 12:19 ` [PATCH] fix count_vm_event preempt in memory compaction direct reclaim Andrea Arcangeli
2010-05-05 12:51 ` Mel Gorman
2010-05-05 13:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-05-05 13:55 ` Mel Gorman
2010-05-05 14:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-05-05 15:14 ` Mel Gorman
2010-05-05 15:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-05-05 15:32 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 13/14] mm,compaction: Add a tunable that decides when memory should be compacted and when it should be reclaimed Mel Gorman
2010-04-20 21:01 ` [PATCH 14/14] mm,compaction: Defer compaction using an exponential backoff when compaction fails Mel Gorman
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