From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754348Ab2LJKNf (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:13:35 -0500 Received: from e8.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.138]:42761 "EHLO e8.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754149Ab2LJKNd (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2012 05:13:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:12:57 +0530 From: Srikar Dronamraju To: Mel Gorman Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Andrea Arcangeli , Ingo Molnar , Rik van Riel , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux-MM , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/45] Automatic NUMA Balancing V7 Message-ID: <20121210094257.GB6348@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: Srikar Dronamraju References: <1353612353-1576-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> <20121126145800.GK8218@suse.de> <20121128134930.GB20087@suse.de> <20121207104539.GB22164@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20121210090730.GF1009@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121210090730.GF1009@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12121010-9360-0000-0000-00000DBEB2E1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > > Got a chance to run autonuma-benchmark on a 8 node, 64 core machine. > > the results are as below. (for each kernel I ran 5 iterations of > > autonuma-benchmark) > > > > Thanks, a test of v10 would also be appreciated. The differences between > V7 and V10 are small but do include a change in how migrate rate-limiting > is handled. It is unlikely it'll make a difference to this test but I'd > like to rule it out. > Yes, have queued it for testing. Will report on completion. > > KernelVersion: 3.7.0-rc3-mainline_v37rc7() Please read it as 3.7-rc3 > > What kernel is this? The name begins with 3.7-rc3 but then says > v37rc7. v37rc7 of what? I thought it might be v3.7-rc7 but it already said > it's 3.7-rc3 so I'm confused. Would it be possible to base the tests on > a similar baseline kernel such as 3.7.0-rc7 or 3.7.0-rc8? The > balancenuma patches should apply and the autonuma patches can be taken > from the mm-autonuma-v28fastr4-mels-rebase branch in > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma.git > Yes, for the next set of reports I have based autonuma branch on this branch. > Either way, the figures look bad. I'm trying to find a similar machine > but initially at least I have not had much luck. Can you post the .config > you used for balancenuma in case I can reproduce the problem on a 4-node > machine please? Are all the nodes the same size? > No all nodes are not of same size There are 6 32 GB nodes and 2 64 GB nodes. Will post the balancenuma config along with results. -- Thanks and Regards Srikar