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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, riel@redhat.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	pjt@google.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/19] mm/mpol: Remove NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 23:41:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120809214111.GF10459@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120731192808.459705289@chello.nl>

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:12:06PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Since the NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT statistic is useless on its own; it wants
> to be compared to either a total of interleave allocations or to a miss
> count, remove it.
> 
> Fixing it would be possible, but since we've gone years without these
> statistics I figure we can continue that way.
> 
> Also NUMA_HIT fully includes NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT so users might
> switch to using that.
> 
> This cleans up some of the weird MPOL_INTERLEAVE allocation exceptions.

It's not apparent why you need to remove it for sched-numa. I think I
see it but it'd be nicer if it would explained so one doesn't need to
read an internal bit of several patches later to understand why this
is needed.

> --- a/drivers/base/node.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/node.c
> @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static ssize_t node_read_numastat(struct
>  		       node_page_state(dev->id, NUMA_HIT),
>  		       node_page_state(dev->id, NUMA_MISS),
>  		       node_page_state(dev->id, NUMA_FOREIGN),
> -		       node_page_state(dev->id, NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT),
> +		       0UL,
>  		       node_page_state(dev->id, NUMA_LOCAL),
>  		       node_page_state(dev->id, NUMA_OTHER));
>  }

Not so nice to leave forever a 0 here. It doesn't matter if nobody can
act on it because it wants to be compared, it's still useful as an
informative value for vmstat below:

> --- a/mm/vmstat.c
> +++ b/mm/vmstat.c
> @@ -717,7 +717,6 @@ const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
>  	"numa_hit",
>  	"numa_miss",
>  	"numa_foreign",
> -	"numa_interleave",
>  	"numa_local",
>  	"numa_other",
>  #endif
> 
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-09 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-31 19:12 [PATCH 00/19] sched-numa rewrite Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 01/19] task_work: Remove dependency on sched.h Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 20:52   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 02/19] mm/mpol: Remove NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 20:52   ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-09 21:41   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2012-08-10  0:50     ` Andi Kleen
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 03/19] mm/mpol: Make MPOL_LOCAL a real policy Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 20:52   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 04/19] mm, thp: Preserve pgprot across huge page split Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 20:53   ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-09 21:42   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 05/19] mm, mpol: Create special PROT_NONE infrastructure Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 20:55   ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-09 21:43   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 06/19] mm/mpol: Add MPOL_MF_LAZY Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:04   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 07/19] mm/mpol: Add MPOL_MF_NOOP Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:06   ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-09 21:44   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-10-01  9:36   ` Michael Kerrisk
2012-10-01  9:45     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 08/19] mm/mpol: Check for misplaced page Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:13   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 09/19] mm, migrate: Introduce migrate_misplaced_page() Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:16   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 10/19] mm, mpol: Use special PROT_NONE to migrate pages Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:24   ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-09 21:44   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 11/19] sched, mm: Introduce tsk_home_node() Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:30   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 12/19] mm/mpol: Make mempolicy home-node aware Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:33   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 13/19] sched: Introduce sched_feat_numa() Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:34   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 14/19] sched: Make find_busiest_queue() a method Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:34   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 15/19] sched: Implement home-node awareness Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:52   ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-09 21:51   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 16/19] sched, numa: NUMA home-node selection code Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:52   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 17/19] sched, numa: Detect big processes Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:53   ` Rik van Riel
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 18/19] sched, numa: Per task memory placement for " Peter Zijlstra
2012-07-31 21:56   ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-08 21:35   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-09 21:57   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-07-31 19:12 ` [PATCH 19/19] mm, numa: retry failed page migrations Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-02 20:40   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-08 17:17 ` [PATCH 00/19] sched-numa rewrite Andrea Arcangeli
2012-08-08 18:43   ` Rik van Riel
2012-08-17 18:08     ` Andrea Arcangeli

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