From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Chritoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: kswapd min order, slub max order [was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24]
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:10:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710021910.58983.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710021646420.4916@blonde.wat.veritas.com>
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 02:06, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > #
> > # slub && antifrag
> > #
> > have-kswapd-keep-a-minimum-order-free-other-than-order-0.patch
> > only-check-absolute-watermarks-for-alloc_high-and-alloc_harder-allocation
> >s.patch slub-exploit-page-mobility-to-increase-allocation-order.patch
> > slub-reduce-antifrag-max-order.patch
> >
> > I think this stuff is in the "mm stuff we don't want to merge"
> > category. If so, I really should have dropped it ages ago.
>
> I agree. I spent a while last week bisecting down to see why my heavily
> swapping loads take 30%-60% longer with -mm than mainline, and it was
> here that they went bad. Trying to keep higher orders free is costly.
Yeah, no there's no way we'd merge that.
> On the other hand, hasn't SLUB efficiency been built on the expectation
> that higher orders can be used? And it would be a twisted shame for
> high performance to be held back by some idiot's swapping load.
IMO it's a bad idea to create all these dependencies like this.
If SLUB can get _more_ performance out of using higher order allocations,
then fine. If it is starting off at a disadvantage at the same order, then it
that should be fixed first, right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 21:22 -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Andrew Morton
2007-10-01 21:34 ` wibbling over the cpuset shed domain connnection Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 12:36 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 5:21 ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-02 13:12 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 7:00 ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-03 10:57 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 4:21 ` Memory controller merge (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Balbir Singh
2007-10-02 15:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-03 8:13 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-03 18:47 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-04 4:16 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-04 13:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-05 3:07 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-07 17:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-08 2:54 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-04 16:10 ` Paul Menage
2007-10-10 21:07 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-11 6:33 ` Balbir Singh
2007-10-02 6:18 ` x86 patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 6:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 7:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 7:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 7:36 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-02 7:43 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 8:16 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-10-02 10:48 ` Yasunori Goto
2007-10-02 18:18 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 17:25 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-10-02 16:40 ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-10-02 17:17 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-10-02 18:16 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 7:55 ` Matt Mackall
2007-10-02 7:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 9:26 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-10-02 7:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-02 7:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-02 7:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-02 7:59 ` v4l-stk11xx* [Was: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24] Jiri Slaby
[not found] ` <4701FC79.3060608@gmail.com>
2007-10-02 8:10 ` Wireless damage " Jiri Slaby
2007-10-02 8:17 ` per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <20071002082831.GA19954@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02 8:28 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 8:31 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-02 8:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 10:31 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-02 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <20071002104734.GA9410@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02 10:47 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 11:22 ` Kay Sievers
[not found] ` <20071002112802.GA12607@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02 11:28 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 11:21 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-02 11:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 12:05 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 10:15 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-03 10:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-03 13:35 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-03 13:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 14:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 15:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-26 15:10 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 15:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 15:33 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 15:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 15:55 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 20:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 1:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 2:40 ` Greg KH
2007-10-27 8:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 16:02 ` Greg KH
2007-10-27 16:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-27 21:08 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-27 21:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-28 7:10 ` Greg KH
2007-11-02 13:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 13:50 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-02 13:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 14:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 14:32 ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-02 14:59 ` [PATCH] mm: sysfs: expose the BDI object in sysfs Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-02 15:13 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-26 16:37 ` per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Trond Myklebust
2007-12-14 14:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-12-14 15:14 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-12-14 15:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-02 14:38 ` Kay Sievers
2007-10-03 11:00 ` Martin Knoblauch
[not found] ` <20071002083922.GA28892@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-10-02 8:39 ` writeback fixes Fengguang Wu
2007-10-02 16:06 ` kswapd min order, slub max order [was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24] Hugh Dickins
2007-10-02 9:10 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-10-02 18:38 ` Mel Gorman
2007-10-02 18:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-03 0:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-02 16:12 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Pekka Enberg
2007-10-02 16:21 ` new aops merge [was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24] Hugh Dickins
2007-10-02 17:45 ` remove zero_page (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) Nick Piggin
2007-10-03 10:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-03 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-08 15:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-09 13:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-09 14:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09 9:31 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 2:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09 10:15 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 3:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-10 4:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-10 5:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-09 14:30 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-10 15:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-03 19:50 ` A kernel Tracing interface " David Wilder
2007-10-09 9:19 ` r/o bind mounts, was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24 Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-13 8:44 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-10-13 8:52 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-13 11:45 ` Borislav Petkov
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