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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>,
	npiggin@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu, jschopp@austin.ibm.com,
	arjan@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	mbligh@mbligh.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation related patches
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:19:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E894D7.2040309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070302211207.GJ10643@holomorphy.com>

Bill Irwin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:23:28PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> With 32 CPUs diving into the page reclaim simultaneously,
>> each trying to scan a fraction of memory, this is disastrous
>> for performance.  A 256GB system should be even worse.
> 
> Thundering herds of a sort pounding the LRU locks from direct reclaim
> have set off the NMI oopser for users here.

Ditto here.

The main reason they end up pounding the LRU locks is the
swappiness heuristic.  They scan too much before deciding
that it would be a good idea to actually swap something
out, and with 32 CPUs doing such scanning simultaneously...

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-02 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-01 10:12 The performance and behaviour of the anti-fragmentation related patches Mel Gorman
2007-03-02  0:09 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  0:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02  1:52     ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-02  3:44       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02  3:59         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  5:11           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02  5:50             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-03-02  6:15               ` Paul Mundt
2007-03-02 17:01                 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 16:20             ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 17:07               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 17:35                 ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 18:02                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 19:02                     ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 17:16               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02 18:45                 ` Mark Gross
2007-03-02 19:03                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-02 23:58                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-03-02  4:18         ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-02  5:13         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-06  4:16         ` Paul Mackerras
2007-03-02 16:58     ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 17:05     ` Joel Schopp
2007-03-05  3:21       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-05 15:20         ` Joel Schopp
2007-03-05 16:01           ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-05 16:45             ` Joel Schopp
2007-05-03  8:49           ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-03-02  1:39   ` Balbir Singh
2007-03-02  2:34   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-03-02  3:05   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  3:57     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  4:06       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  4:21         ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  4:31           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  5:06             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  5:40               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  5:49                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  5:53                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  6:08                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  6:19                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  6:29                         ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  6:51                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  7:03                             ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  7:19                             ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  7:44                               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  8:12                                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02  8:21                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  8:38                                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-02 17:09                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-04  1:26                                   ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-04  1:51                                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-04  1:58                                       ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02  5:50               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  4:29         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  4:33           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02  4:58             ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02  4:20       ` Paul Mundt
2007-03-02 13:50   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-03-02 15:29   ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 16:58     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 17:09       ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 17:23       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 17:35         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 17:43           ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 18:06             ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 18:15               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 18:23                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 18:23                 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 19:31                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 19:40                     ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 21:12                   ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-02 21:19                     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2007-03-02 21:52                       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 22:03                         ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 22:22                           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 22:34                             ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 22:51                               ` Martin Bligh
2007-03-02 22:54                                 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-02 23:28                                   ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-03-03  0:24                                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 22:52                               ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-02 22:59                               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-02 23:20                                 ` Rik van Riel
2007-03-03  1:40                                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03  1:58                                   ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03  3:55                                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03  0:33                             ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03  0:54                               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-03  3:15                               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-03  4:19                                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-03 17:16                                 ` Martin J. Bligh
2007-03-03 17:50                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-02 20:59               ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-02  1:52 ` Bill Irwin
2007-03-02 10:38   ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-02 16:31     ` Joel Schopp
2007-03-02 21:37       ` Bill Irwin

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