From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mgorman@suse.de,
aarcange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2 v2]compaction: abort compaction loop if lock is contended or run too long
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:40:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120911084038.GB19698@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120911082946.GA801@kernel.org>
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:29:46PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:45:55AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:18:30AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > > isolate_migratepages_range() might isolate none pages, for example, when
> > > zone->lru_lock is contended and compaction is async. In this case, we should
> > > abort compaction, otherwise, compact_zone will run a useless loop and make
> > > zone->lru_lock is even contended.
> > >
> >
> > As I read old thread, you have the scenario and number.
> > Please include them in this description.
>
> that is just to show how the contention is, not performance data. I thought
> explaining the contention is enough. How did you think?
If you measured it with perf, you had data which is
percentage of sampling of the lock. It's enough. I meant it, NOT
performance data.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-11 8:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-10 1:18 [patch 1/2 v2]compaction: abort compaction loop if lock is contended or run too long Shaohua Li
2012-09-10 8:11 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-11 1:45 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-11 8:29 ` Shaohua Li
2012-09-11 8:40 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2012-09-11 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-12 0:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-09-12 21:20 ` Andrew Morton
2012-09-12 23:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-09-13 0:47 ` Minchan Kim
2012-09-13 2:49 ` Shaohua Li
2012-09-13 9:38 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-13 10:13 ` Shaohua Li
2012-09-13 16:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-09-13 16:31 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-13 17:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-09-13 10:03 ` Mel Gorman
2012-09-12 11:08 ` Mel Gorman
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