From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:40:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121120114001.GR8218@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121120104053.GA15302@gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:40:53AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> btw., mind sending me a fuller/longer profile than the one
> you've sent before? In particular does your system have any
> vsyscall emulation page fault overhead?
>
I can't, the results for specjbb got trashed after I moved to 3.7-rc6 and
the old run was incomplete :( I'll have to re-run for profiles. I generally
do not run with profiling enabled because it can distort results very badly.
I went back and re-examined anything else that could distort the results. I
have monitoring other than profiles enabled and the heaviest monitor by
far is reading smaps every 10 seconds to see how processes are currently
distributed between nodes and what CPU they are running on. The intention
was to be able to examine after the fact if the individual java processes
were ending up on the same nodes and scheduled properly.
However, this would impact the peak performance and affect contention on
mmap_sem every 10 seconds as it's possible for the PTE scanner and smaps
reader to contend. Care is taken to only read smaps once per process. So
for each JVM instance, it would read smaps once even though it would
examine where every thread is running. This minimises the distortion.
top is also updating every 10 seconds which will also contend on locks.
The other monitors are relatively harmless and are reading files like
/proc/vmstat, each numastat file every 10 seconds. As before, all tests
had these monitors enabled so they would all have suffered evenly.
Normally when I'm looking at a series I run both with and without monitors. I
report without monitors and use monitors to help debug and problems that
are identified. Unfortunately, time pressure is not allowing me to do that
this time.
> If yes, does the patch below change anything for you?
>
I'll check it.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-19 2:14 [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16 Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 01/27] mm/generic: Only flush the local TLB in ptep_set_access_flags() Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 02/27] x86/mm: Only do a local tlb flush " Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 03/27] x86/mm: Introduce pte_accessible() Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 04/27] mm: Only flush the TLB when clearing an accessible pte Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 05/27] x86/mm: Completely drop the TLB flush from ptep_set_access_flags() Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 06/27] mm: Count the number of pages affected in change_protection() Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 07/27] mm: Optimize the TLB flush of sys_mprotect() and change_protection() users Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 08/27] sched, numa, mm: Add last_cpu to page flags Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 09/27] sched, mm, numa: Create generic NUMA fault infrastructure, with architectures overrides Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 10/27] sched: Make find_busiest_queue() a method Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 11/27] sched, numa, mm: Describe the NUMA scheduling problem formally Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 12/27] numa, mm: Support NUMA hinting page faults from gup/gup_fast Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 13/27] mm/migrate: Introduce migrate_misplaced_page() Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 14/27] sched, numa, mm, arch: Add variable locality exception Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 15/27] sched, numa, mm: Add credits for NUMA placement Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 16/27] sched, mm, x86: Add the ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING flag Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 17/27] sched, numa, mm: Add the scanning page fault machinery Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 18/27] sched: Add adaptive NUMA affinity support Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 19/27] sched: Implement constant, per task Working Set Sampling (WSS) rate Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 20/27] sched, numa, mm: Count WS scanning against present PTEs, not virtual memory ranges Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 21/27] sched: Implement slow start for working set sampling Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 22/27] sched, numa, mm: Interleave shared tasks Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 23/27] sched: Implement NUMA scanning backoff Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 24/27] sched: Improve convergence Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 25/27] sched: Introduce staged average NUMA faults Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 26/27] sched: Track groups of shared tasks Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 2:14 ` [PATCH 27/27] sched: Use the best-buddy 'ideal cpu' in balancing decisions Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 16:29 ` [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16 Mel Gorman
2012-11-19 19:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 21:18 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-19 22:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 23:00 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 0:41 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-21 10:58 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 1:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-20 7:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 7:37 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20 7:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 8:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 8:11 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21 11:14 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 10:20 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 10:47 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 15:29 ` [PATCH] mm, numa: Turn 4K pte NUMA faults into effective hugepage ones Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 16:09 ` [PATCH, v2] " Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 16:31 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-20 16:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 12:08 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 8:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 2:41 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21 9:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 11:40 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-23 1:26 ` Alex Shi
2012-11-20 17:56 ` numa/core regressions fixed - more testers wanted Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 1:54 ` Andrew Theurer
2012-11-21 3:22 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-21 4:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2012-11-21 17:59 ` Andrew Theurer
2012-11-21 11:52 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 22:15 ` Andrew Theurer
2012-11-21 3:33 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21 9:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 11:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 8:39 ` Alex Shi
2012-11-22 1:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-23 13:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-23 15:23 ` Alex Shi
2012-11-26 2:11 ` Alex Shi
2012-11-28 14:21 ` Alex Shi
2012-11-20 10:40 ` [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16 Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 11:40 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2012-11-21 10:38 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 19:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-11-21 19:56 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-19 20:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-19 21:37 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-20 0:50 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20 1:05 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20 6:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 6:20 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20 7:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 7:48 ` Paul Turner
2012-11-20 8:20 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20 9:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 9:41 ` [patch] x86/vsyscall: Add Kconfig option to use native vsyscalls, switch to it Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 23:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2012-11-21 0:43 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-20 12:02 ` [PATCH] x86/mm: Don't flush the TLB on #WP pmd fixups Ingo Molnar
2012-11-20 12:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 11:47 ` Mel Gorman
2012-11-21 1:22 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21 17:02 ` [PATCH 00/27] Latest numa/core release, v16 Linus Torvalds
2012-11-21 17:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 17:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-22 4:31 ` David Rientjes
2012-11-21 17:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-11-21 22:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-11-21 17:45 ` Rik van Riel
2012-11-21 18:04 ` Ingo Molnar
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