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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: regression caused by cgroups optimization in 3.17-rc2
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:53:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5408ED7A.5010908@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5408CB2E.3080101@sr71.net>

On 09/04/2014 01:27 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 09/04/2014 07:27 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> Ouch. free_pages_and_swap_cache completely kills the uncharge batching
>> because it reduces it to PAGEVEC_SIZE batches.
>>
>> I think we really do not need PAGEVEC_SIZE batching anymore. We are
>> already batching on tlb_gather layer. That one is limited so I think
>> the below should be safe but I have to think about this some more. There
>> is a risk of prolonged lru_lock wait times but the number of pages is
>> limited to 10k and the heavy work is done outside of the lock. If this
>> is really a problem then we can tear LRU part and the actual
>> freeing/uncharging into a separate functions in this path.
>>
>> Could you test with this half baked patch, please? I didn't get to test
>> it myself unfortunately.
> 
> 3.16 settled out at about 11.5M faults/sec before the regression.  This
> patch gets it back up to about 10.5M, which is good.  The top spinlock
> contention in the kernel is still from the resource counter code via
> mem_cgroup_commit_charge(), though.
> 
> I'm running Johannes' patch now.

This looks pretty good.  The area where it plateaus (above 80 threads
where hyperthreading kicks in) might be a bit slower than it was in
3.16, but that could easily be from other things.

> https://www.sr71.net/~dave/intel/bb.html?1=3.16.0-rc4-g67b9d76/&2=3.17.0-rc3-g57b252f

Feel free to add my Tested-by:

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-04 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-02 19:05 regression caused by cgroups optimization in 3.17-rc2 Dave Hansen
2014-09-02 20:18 ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-02 20:57   ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-04 14:27     ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-04 20:27       ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-04 22:53         ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2014-09-05  9:28           ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-05  9:25         ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-05 14:47           ` Johannes Weiner
2014-09-05 15:39             ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-10 16:29           ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-10 16:57             ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-10 17:05               ` Michal Hocko
2014-09-05 12:35         ` Johannes Weiner
2014-09-08 15:47           ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-09 14:50             ` Johannes Weiner
2014-09-09 18:23               ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-02 22:18 ` Johannes Weiner
2014-09-02 22:36   ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-03  0:10     ` Johannes Weiner
2014-09-03  0:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-03  1:33         ` Johannes Weiner
2014-09-03  3:15           ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-03  0:30       ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-04 15:08         ` Johannes Weiner
2014-09-04 20:50           ` Dave Hansen
2014-09-05  8:04           ` Michal Hocko

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