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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: Bug with shared memory.
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:23:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <221520000.1021915385@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020520163724.GI21806@dualathlon.random>

>> I've been benchmarking rmap 13 against mainline (2.4.19-pre7)
>> and with the latest lock breakup changes performance now seems
>> to be about equivalent to mainline (for kernel compile on NUMA-Q).
>> Those changes reduced system time from 650s to 160s. The only
> 
> How much are you swapping in your workload? (as said the fast paths are
> hurted a little so it's expected that it's almost as fast as mainline
> with a kernel compile, similar to the fact we also add anon pages to the
> lru list). I think you're only exercising the fast paths in your
> workload, not the memory balancing that is the whole point of the change.

No swapping. We fixed the horrendous locking problem we were seeing,
but this was only one test - obviously others are needed. But I think we're
in agreement that it's time to give it a beating and see what happens ;-)

M.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-20 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-14 15:13 Bug with shared memory Martin Schwidefsky
2002-05-14 19:33 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-15 22:42   ` Mike Kravetz
2002-05-15 23:07     ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-17 17:53     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-17 20:07       ` Mike Kravetz
2002-05-17 20:29         ` Anton Blanchard
2002-05-20  4:30   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-20  5:21     ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-20 11:34       ` Andrey Savochkin
2002-05-20 14:15       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-20 19:24         ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-20 23:46           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-21  0:14             ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-21  1:40               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-20 16:22       ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-20 19:38         ` Rik van Riel
2002-05-20 20:06           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-20 16:13     ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-05-20 16:37       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-20 17:23         ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2002-05-20 17:32           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-24  7:33     ` inode highmem imbalance fix [Re: Bug with shared memory.] Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24  7:51       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-05-24  8:04       ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-24 15:20         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-24 11:47       ` Ed Tomlinson
2002-05-30 11:25       ` Denis Lunev
2002-05-30 17:59         ` Andrea Arcangeli

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