From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Liang, Liang (Leo)" <Liang.Liang@amd.com>,
"Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Huang, Ray" <Ray.Huang@amd.com>,
"Koenig, Christian" <Christian.Koenig@amd.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
George Kennedy <george.kennedy@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: slow boot with 7fef431be9c9 ("mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail in __free_pages_core()")
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 15:48:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEzCm/Uwvw7kKpd7@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0AE49D98-171A-42B9-9CFC-9193A9BD3346@redhat.com>
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 10:05:23AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > Am 13.03.2021 um 05:04 schrieb Liang, Liang (Leo) <Liang.Liang@amd.com>:
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Which benchmark tool you prefer? Memtest86+ or else?
>
> Hi Leo,
>
> I think you want something that runs under Linux natively.
>
> I‘m planning on coding up a kernel module to walk all 4MB pages in the
> freelists and perform a stream benchmark individually. Then we might be
> able to identify the problematic range - if there is a problematic range :)
My wild guess would be that the pages that are now at the head of free
lists have wrong caching enabled. Might be worth checking in your test
module.
> Guess I‘ll have it running by Monday and let you know.
>
> Cheers!
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-13 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 14:41 slow boot with 7fef431be9c9 ("mm/page_alloc: place pages to tail in __free_pages_core()") Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-11 15:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-12 14:06 ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-12 14:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-12 15:39 ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-12 15:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-12 16:15 ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-12 16:19 ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-12 16:46 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-13 4:04 ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-13 9:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-13 13:48 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2021-03-15 13:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16 0:36 ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16 6:50 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-16 8:00 ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16 8:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16 8:43 ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16 8:54 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16 8:58 ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16 9:08 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16 10:30 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-16 11:02 ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16 11:10 ` David Hildenbrand
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