From: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@googlemail.com>,
alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order > 0
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:18:00 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6A0FC0.1000307@internode.on.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110226064339.GC19630@random.random>
Andrea Arcangeli wrote, on 26/02/11 17:13:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:54:05AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>> Ok so tomorrow I'll get all results on these 3 kernels (
>> compaction-kswapd-3+compaction_alloc_lowlat-2 vs
>> compaction-no-kswapd-3+compaction_alloc_lowlat-2 vs
>> compaction_alloc_lowlat2) on network server load, where throughout is
>> measured in addition to latency. Then we'll have a better picture to
>
> Latency is still lowest with compaction-no-kswapd-3. compaction_alloc
> still is at the top of the profiling with
> compaction-kswapd-3+compaction_alloc_lowlat-2. However
> compaction-kswapd-3 reduced the overhead somewhat but not enough to be
> as fast as with compaction-no-kswapd-3 (even if much better than
> before).
>
> So we should apply compaction-no-kswapd-3 to 2.6.38 I think.
I built a kernel based against git head of around 0800 UTC Saturday
2011-02-26 plus compaction-no-kswapd-3 (Andrea's) and
compaction_alloc_lowlat-2 (Mel's) patches.
The the latency performance for MIDI playback is excellent and kswap0
has reported 100 seconds of CPU time in 22 hours of the kernel kernel
running.
However, I am now battling against the kernel freeing up memory when
using icedove/thunderbird. top is reporting 74 MiB resident, 418 MiB
virtual, and as I pause typing to watch top output, free RAM has gone up
to 50 MiB and I'm stuck waiting for parts of icedove to swap back in so
that I can get a response from my input (either scrolling a message when
reading it or composing a message, where I am left waiting for the text
that I typed to appear).
Normally in this machine with only 384 MiB RAM and (say) 2.6.35-2.6.37
kernels, free RAM will hover around the 5 MiB mark when lots of
applications are open. I may wait when switching from one running
application to another for it to respond, but once I am using that
particular application it sufficiently responsive not to be annoying.
The aggressive reclamation of RAM by the kernel I built around 0800 UTC
Saturday is working against the application currently in focus.
I will try Andrea's and Mel's patches built against 2.6.36-rc6 over the
next several hours to see how that compares.
Arthur.
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2011-02-22 7:37 ` [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified - 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order > 0 Clemens Ladisch
2011-02-22 7:46 ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-22 13:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22 16:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22 16:59 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-22 17:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-22 17:37 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-22 17:47 ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-22 19:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 9:15 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-23 11:41 ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-23 13:50 ` Clemens Ladisch
2011-02-23 17:01 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-23 17:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 16:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 16:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 16:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 16:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 16:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 20:07 ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-23 21:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 21:55 ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-23 23:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-24 1:40 ` Arthur Marsh
2011-02-24 1:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-26 6:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-27 8:48 ` Arthur Marsh [this message]
2011-02-23 17:10 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-23 17:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-02-23 17:44 ` Mel Gorman
2011-02-23 18:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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