From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] mm: numa: Scan pages with elevated page_mapcount
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 10:32:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130704093211.GN1875@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130703184124.GD18898@dyad.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 08:41:24PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 03:21:39PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> > Note that the patch still leaves shared, file-backed in VM_EXEC vmas in
> > place guessing that these are shared library pages. Migrating them are
> > likely to be of major benefit as generally the expectation would be that
> > these are read-shared between caches and that iTLB and iCache pressure is
> > generally low.
>
> I'm failing to grasp.. we don't migrate them because migrating them would
> likely be beneficial?
>
> Missing a negative somewhere?
Yes.
Note that the patch does not migrate shared, file-backed within vmas marked
VM_EXEC as these are generally shared library pages. Migrating such pages
is not beneficial as there is an expectation they are read-shared between
caches and iTLB and iCache pressure is generally low.
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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-04 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-03 14:21 [PATCH 0/13] Basic scheduler support for automatic NUMA balancing V2 Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 01/13] mm: numa: Document automatic NUMA balancing sysctls Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 02/13] sched: Track NUMA hinting faults on per-node basis Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 03/13] sched: Select a preferred node with the most numa hinting faults Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 04/13] sched: Update NUMA hinting faults once per scan Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 05/13] sched: Favour moving tasks towards the preferred node Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 06/13] sched: Reschedule task on preferred NUMA node once selected Mel Gorman
2013-07-04 12:26 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-07-04 13:29 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 07/13] sched: Split accounting of NUMA hinting faults that pass two-stage filter Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 21:56 ` Johannes Weiner
2013-07-04 9:23 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-04 14:24 ` Rik van Riel
2013-07-04 19:36 ` Johannes Weiner
2013-07-05 9:41 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-05 10:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 08/13] sched: Increase NUMA PTE scanning when a new preferred node is selected Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 09/13] sched: Favour moving tasks towards nodes that incurred more faults Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 18:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04 9:25 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 10/13] sched: Set the scan rate proportional to the size of the task being scanned Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 11/13] sched: Check current->mm before allocating NUMA faults Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 15:33 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-04 12:48 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-07-05 10:07 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 12/13] mm: numa: Scan pages with elevated page_mapcount Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 18:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04 9:27 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 18:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04 9:32 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2013-07-03 18:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-03 14:21 ` [PATCH 13/13] sched: Account for the number of preferred tasks running on a node when selecting a preferred node Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 18:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04 9:37 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-04 13:07 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-07-04 13:54 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-04 14:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-04 14:40 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 16:19 ` [PATCH 0/13] Basic scheduler support for automatic NUMA balancing V2 Mel Gorman
2013-07-03 16:26 ` Mel Gorman
2013-07-04 18:02 ` [PATCH RFC WIP] Process weights based scheduling for better consolidation Srikar Dronamraju
2013-07-05 10:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-07-05 12:49 ` Srikar Dronamraju
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