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From: Julian Wollrath <jwollrath@web.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Julian Wollrath <jwollrath@web.de>,
	Patrik Kullman <patrik.kullman@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: Major performance regressions in 3.7rc1/2
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:04:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121023110434.021d100b@ilfaris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1210222059120.1136@eggly.anvils>

> > Thanks.  Let's add some cc's.  Can you please describe your workload
> > and some estimate of the slowdown?
I am using fluxbox with Iceweasel, Claws-Mail and urxvt on different
workspaces on a Thinkpad X121e with an AMD E-450 APU. Loading some big
pages in Iceweasel leades to a very sluggish rendering of the urxvt
window when changing workspaces, the cursor movement falters. The
falter in the cursor movement is from random length but I would
estimate, that it is mostly under one second. But sometimes the time
between the each falter is very short which results in a more or less
unusable system.

> I'm currently assuming that my clear_page_mlock() commit is innocent
> of this: it went in just two before David's numa reclaim commit, and
> I don't see how mine could have any such marked effect: I'm thinking
> it was just a bisection hiccup that implicated it.
Just tested v3.7-rc2 with your clear_page_mlock() and without the numa
reclaim commit and everything worked fine. So you are right, most
probable it was a bisection hiccup, the reclaim commit is the real bad
commit. Nevertheless I am wondering why everything worked fine until
39b5f29a (mm: remove vma arg from page_evictable) and then started to
behave badly with your clear_page_mlock() commit but 3.7-rc2 works fine
with only the numa reclaim commit revoked.


With best regards,
Julian Wollrath

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-23  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAGPN=9Qx1JAr6CGO-JfoR2ksTJG_CLLZY_oBA_TFMzA_OSfiFg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20121022173315.7b0da762@ilfaris>
     [not found]   ` <20121022214502.0fde3adc@ilfaris>
2012-10-23  0:04     ` Major performance regressions in 3.7rc1/2 Andrew Morton
2012-10-23  4:20       ` Hugh Dickins
2012-10-23  9:04         ` Julian Wollrath [this message]
2012-10-23 10:52           ` Anca Emanuel
2012-10-23 22:42             ` David Rientjes
2012-10-23 23:15               ` Anca Emanuel
2012-10-24  1:55                 ` [patch for-3.7] mm, numa: avoid setting zone_reclaim_mode unless a node is sufficiently distant David Rientjes
2012-10-24  8:38                   ` Julian Wollrath

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