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From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: isolate_freepages_block(): very high intermittent overhead
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:06:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141027210656.GC348@x4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141027204003.GB348@x4>

On 2014.10.27 at 21:40 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On my v3.18-rc2 kernel isolate_freepages_block() sometimes shows up very
> high (>20%) in perf top during the configuration phase of software
> builds. It increases build time considerably.
> 
> Unfortunately the issue is not 100% reproducible, because it appears
> only intermittently. And the symptoms vanish after a few minutes.
> 
> I think the "mm, compaction" series from Vlastimil is to blame, but it's
> hard to be sure when bisection doesn't work.

Here is an example:

Overhead  Shared Object      Symbol
59.12%    [kernel]           [k] isolate_freepages_block
4.75%     [kernel]           [k] amd_e400_idle
1.10%     [kernel]           [k] clear_page_c
0.89%     [kernel]           [k] get_pfnblock_flags_mask
0.64%     ld-2.19.90.so      [.] do_lookup_x
0.64%     [kernel]           [k] unmap_single_vma
0.58%     [kernel]           [k] copy_page_rep
0.54%     libc-2.19.90.so    [.] memcpy@@GLIBC_2.14
0.52%     [kernel]           [k] filemap_map_pages
0.47%     [kernel]           [k] _cond_resched

-- 
Markus

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-27 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-27 20:40 isolate_freepages_block(): very high intermittent overhead Markus Trippelsdorf
2014-10-27 21:06 ` Markus Trippelsdorf [this message]
2014-10-27 22:01 ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-10-28  8:59   ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2014-10-29 15:08     ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-11-06 11:42     ` Vlastimil Babka
2014-11-06 11:53       ` Markus Trippelsdorf

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