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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@gmail.com>,
	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
	Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] the big khugepaged redesign
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:07:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150305170752.GS30405@awork2.anarazel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F88BD4.3090006@suse.cz>

On 2015-03-05 18:01:08 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 03/05/2015 05:52 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > What exactly counts as "recent" in this context? Most of the bigger
> > installations where we found THP to be absolutely prohibitive (slowdowns
> > on the order of a magnitude, huge latency spikes) unfortunately run
> > quite old kernels...  I guess 3.11 does *not* count :/? That'd be a
> 
> Yeah that's too old :/

Guessed so.

> I also noticed that you now support hugetlbfs. That could be also interesting
> data point, if the hugetlbfs usage helped because THP code wouldn't
> trigger.

Well, mmap(MAP_HUGETLB), but yea.

Will let you know once I know whether it's possible to get a newer kernel.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-05 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-23 12:58 [RFC 0/6] the big khugepaged redesign Vlastimil Babka
2015-02-23 12:58 ` [RFC 1/6] mm, thp: stop preallocating hugepages in khugepaged Vlastimil Babka
2015-02-23 12:58 ` [RFC 2/6] mm, thp: make khugepaged check for THP allocability before scanning Vlastimil Babka
2015-02-23 12:58 ` [RFC 3/6] mm, thp: try fault allocations only if we expect them to succeed Vlastimil Babka
2015-02-23 12:58 ` [RFC 4/6] mm, thp: move collapsing from khugepaged to task_work context Vlastimil Babka
2015-02-23 14:25   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-23 12:58 ` [RFC 5/6] mm, thp: wakeup khugepaged when THP allocation fails Vlastimil Babka
2015-02-23 12:58 ` [RFC 6/6] mm, thp: remove no longer needed khugepaged code Vlastimil Babka
2015-02-23 21:03 ` [RFC 0/6] the big khugepaged redesign Andi Kleen
2015-02-23 22:46 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-02-23 22:56   ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-23 22:58     ` Sasha Levin
2015-02-24 10:32     ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-02-24 11:24       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2015-02-24 11:45         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2015-02-25 12:42         ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-03-05 16:30       ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-03-05 16:52         ` Andres Freund
2015-03-05 17:01           ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-03-05 17:07             ` Andres Freund [this message]
2015-03-06  0:21         ` Andres Freund
2015-03-06  7:50           ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-03-09  3:17   ` Vlastimil Babka

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