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From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
To: "Figo.zhang" <figo1802@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] mm/__free_one_page: skip merge for order-0 page unless compaction failed
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:53:53 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180321045353.GC28705@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF7GXvrQG0+iPu8h13coo2QW7WxNhjHA1JAaOYoEBBB9-obRSQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 09:21:33PM -0700, Figo.zhang wrote:
> suppose that in free_one_page() will try to merge to high order anytime ,
> but now in your patch,
> those merge has postponed when system in low memory status, it is very easy
> let system trigger
> low memory state and get poor performance.

Merge or not merge, the size of free memory is not affected.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-21  4:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-20  8:54 [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Eliminate zone->lock contention for will-it-scale/page_fault1 and parallel free Aaron Lu
2018-03-20  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] mm/page_alloc: use helper functions to add/remove a page to/from buddy Aaron Lu
2018-03-20 11:35   ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-20 13:50     ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-20  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/4] mm/__free_one_page: skip merge for order-0 page unless compaction failed Aaron Lu
2018-03-20 11:45   ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-20 14:11     ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-21  7:53       ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-22 17:15       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-22 18:39         ` Daniel Jordan
2018-03-22 18:50           ` Matthew Wilcox
     [not found]   ` <CAF7GXvovKsabDw88icK5c5xBqg6g0TomQdspfi4ikjtbg=XzGQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-03-21  1:59     ` Aaron Lu
     [not found]       ` <CAF7GXvrQG0+iPu8h13coo2QW7WxNhjHA1JAaOYoEBBB9-obRSQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-03-21  4:53         ` Aaron Lu [this message]
     [not found]           ` <CAF7GXvpzZassTEebX7nS0u_xynns=mxEF28rPBhXX9Yp4xQ3hw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-03-21  7:42             ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-20  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/4] mm/rmqueue_bulk: alloc without touching individual page structure Aaron Lu
     [not found]   ` <CAF7GXvpzgc0vsJemUYQPhPFte8b8a4nBFo=iwZBTdM1Y2eoHYw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-03-21  1:52     ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-21 12:55   ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-03-21 15:01     ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-29 19:16       ` Daniel Jordan
2018-03-20  8:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] mm/free_pcppages_bulk: reduce overhead of cluster operation on free path Aaron Lu
2018-03-21 17:44 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Eliminate zone->lock contention for will-it-scale/page_fault1 and parallel free Daniel Jordan
2018-03-22  1:30   ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-22 11:20     ` Daniel Jordan
2018-03-29 19:19 ` Daniel Jordan
2018-03-30  1:42   ` Aaron Lu
2018-03-30 14:27     ` Daniel Jordan

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