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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Damien Ramonda <damien.ramonda@intel.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>Nishanth
	Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V5] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for no local memory and limit readahead pages
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:06:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140213130643.0cf5fb083056cdd159d1aac4@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1402130003320.11689@chino.kir.corp.google.com>

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:05:31 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> 
> > I was able to test (1) implementation on the system where readahead problem
> > occurred. Unfortunately it did not help.
> > 
> > Reason seem to be that CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES dependency of
> > numa_mem_id(). The PPC machine I am facing problem has topology like
> > this:
> > 
> > numactl -H
> > ---------
> > available: 2 nodes (0-1)
> > node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
> > ...
> > node 0 size: 0 MB
> > node 0 free: 0 MB
> > node 1 cpus: 8 9 10 11 32 33 34 35 ...
> > node 1 size: 8071 MB
> > node 1 free: 2479 MB
> > node distances:
> > node   0   1
> >   0:  10  20
> >   1:  20  10
> > 
> > So it seems numa_mem_id() does not help for all the configs..
> > Am I missing something ?
> > 
> 
> You need the patch from http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139093411119013 
> first.

That (un-signed-off) powerpc patch appears to be moribund.  What's up?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-13 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-22 10:53 [RFC PATCH V5] mm readahead: Fix readahead fail for no local memory and limit readahead pages Raghavendra K T
2014-02-03  8:30 ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-06 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-06 22:58   ` David Rientjes
2014-02-06 23:22     ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-06 23:48       ` David Rientjes
2014-02-06 23:58         ` David Rientjes
2014-02-07 10:42           ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-07 20:41             ` David Rientjes
2014-02-10  8:21               ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-10 10:05                 ` David Rientjes
2014-02-10 12:25                   ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-10 21:35                     ` David Rientjes
2014-02-13  7:07                       ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-13  8:05                         ` David Rientjes
2014-02-13 10:04                           ` Raghavendra K T
2014-02-13 22:41                             ` David Rientjes
2014-02-14  0:14                               ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-02-14  0:37                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-14  0:45                                   ` Andrew Morton
2014-02-14  4:32                                   ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-02-14 10:54                                     ` David Rientjes
2014-02-17 19:28                                       ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-02-17 23:14                                         ` David Rientjes
2014-02-18  1:31                                           ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-02-17 22:59                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-14  7:43                                   ` Jan Kara
2014-02-17 22:57                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-14  5:47                               ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-02-13 21:06                           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-02-13 21:42                             ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-02-10  8:29   ` [RFC PATCH V5 RESEND] " Raghavendra K T

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