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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/27] mm: Move vmscan writes and file write accounting to the node
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:06:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a439cbd-6bdc-3c7b-0327-df3b60cdeff8@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160623135758.GY1868@techsingularity.net>

On 06/23/2016 03:57 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 04:40:39PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Tue 21-06-16 15:15:58, Mel Gorman wrote:
>>> As reclaim is now node-based, it follows that page write activity
>>> due to page reclaim should also be accounted for on the node. For
>>> consistency, also account page writes and page dirtying on a per-node
>>> basis.
>>>
>>> After this patch, there are a few remaining zone counters that may
>>> appear strange but are fine. NUMA stats are still per-zone as this is a
>>> user-space interface that tools consume. NR_MLOCK, NR_SLAB_*, NR_PAGETABLE,
>>> NR_KERNEL_STACK and NR_BOUNCE are all allocations that potentially pin
>>> low memory and cannot trivially be reclaimed on demand. This information
>>> is still useful for debugging a page allocation failure warning.
>>
>> As I've said in other patch. I think we will need to provide
>> /proc/nodeinfo to fill the gap.
>>
>
> I added a patch on top that prints the node stats in zoneinfo but only
> once for the first populated zone in a node. Doing this or creating a
> new file are both potentially surprising but extending zoneinfo means
> there is a greater chance that a user will spot the change.

BTW, there should already be /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/vmstat 
providing the per-node stats, right?

Changing zoneinfo so that some zones have some stats that others don't 
seems to me like it can break some scripts...

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-23 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-21 14:15 [PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v7 Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 01/27] mm, vmstat: Add infrastructure for per-node vmstats Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 02/27] mm, vmscan: Move lru_lock to the node Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 03/27] mm, vmscan: Move LRU lists to node Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 12:50   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 04/27] mm, vmscan: Begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 14:04   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-06-22 16:00     ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-06-23 11:07       ` Mel Gorman
2016-06-23 11:13         ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-23 10:58     ` Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 05/27] mm, vmscan: Have kswapd only scan based on the highest requested zone Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 06/27] mm, vmscan: Make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 07/27] mm, vmscan: Remove balance gap Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 08/27] mm, vmscan: Simplify the logic deciding whether kswapd sleeps Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 15:30   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 09/27] mm, vmscan: By default have direct reclaim only shrink once per node Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 10/27] mm, vmscan: Remove duplicate logic clearing node congestion and dirty state Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 11/27] mm: vmscan: Do not reclaim from kswapd if there is any eligible zone Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 12/27] mm, vmscan: Make shrink_node decisions more node-centric Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 13:20   ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-22 15:42   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 13/27] mm, memcg: Move memcg limit enforcement from zones to nodes Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 13:15   ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 14/27] mm, workingset: Make working set detection node-aware Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 15/27] mm, page_alloc: Consider dirtyable memory in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 14:15   ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-22 14:27     ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-23 12:53       ` Mel Gorman
2016-06-23 13:13         ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 16/27] mm: Move page mapped accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 22:32   ` Andrew Morton
2016-06-23  8:35     ` Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 14:35   ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 17/27] mm: Rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 14:28   ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 18/27] mm: Move most file-based accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 14:38   ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 19/27] mm: Move vmscan writes and file write " Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 14:40   ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-23 13:57     ` Mel Gorman
2016-06-23 14:06       ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2016-06-23 16:03         ` Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:15 ` [PATCH 20/27] mm, vmscan: Update classzone_idx if buffer_heads_over_limit Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 14:49   ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-21 14:16 ` [PATCH 21/27] mm, vmscan: Only wakeup kswapd once per node for the requested classzone Mel Gorman
2016-06-22 16:08   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-06-21 14:16 ` [PATCH 22/27] mm: Convert zone_reclaim to node_reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:16 ` [PATCH 23/27] mm, vmscan: Add classzone information to tracepoints Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:16 ` [PATCH 24/27] mm, page_alloc: Remove fair zone allocation policy Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:16 ` [PATCH 25/27] mm: page_alloc: Cache the last node whose dirty limit is reached Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:16 ` [PATCH 26/27] mm: vmstat: Replace __count_zone_vm_events with a zone id equivalent Mel Gorman
2016-06-21 14:16 ` [PATCH 27/27] mm: vmstat: Account per-zone stalls and pages skipped during reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-06-23 10:26 ` [PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v7 Mel Gorman
2016-06-23 11:27   ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-23 12:33     ` Mel Gorman
2016-06-23 12:44       ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-23 21:45   ` Andrew Morton
2016-06-24  6:35 ` Balbir Singh
2016-06-24  7:50   ` Mel Gorman
2016-06-27 12:48     ` Balbir Singh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-06-09 18:04 [PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v6 Mel Gorman
2016-06-09 18:04 ` [PATCH 19/27] mm: Move vmscan writes and file write accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-06-17  8:51   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-04-15  9:13 [PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v5 Mel Gorman
2016-04-15  9:13 ` [PATCH 19/27] mm: Move vmscan writes and file write accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-04-06 11:19 [RFC PATCH 00/27] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v3 Mel Gorman
2016-04-06 11:20 ` [PATCH 19/27] mm: Move vmscan writes and file write accounting to the node Mel Gorman

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