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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.

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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Liang, Liang \(Leo\)" <Liang.Liang@amd.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	George Kennedy <george.kennedy@oracle.com>,
	"Huang, Ray" <Ray.Huang@amd.com>,
	"Deucher, Alexander" <Alexander.Deucher@amd.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Koenig, Christian" <Christian.Koenig@amd.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.
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-13 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ 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 14:41 ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-11 15:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-11 15:02   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-12 14:06   ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-12 14:06     ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-12 14:12     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-12 14:12       ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-12 15:39       ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-12 15:39         ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-12 15:48         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-12 15:48           ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-12 16:15           ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-12 16:15             ` Deucher, Alexander
2021-03-12 16:19         ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-12 16:19           ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-12 16:46           ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-12 16:46             ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-13  4:04             ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-13  4:04               ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-13  9:05               ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-13  9:05                 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-13 13:48                 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2021-03-13 13:48                   ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-15 13:04                   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-15 13:04                     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16  0:36                     ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16  0:36                       ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16  6:50                       ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-16  6:50                         ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-16  8:00                         ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16  8:00                           ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16  8:37                           ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16  8:37                             ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16  8:43                             ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16  8:43                               ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16  8:54                               ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16  8:54                                 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16  8:58                                 ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16  8:58                                   ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16  9:08                                   ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16  9:08                                     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16 10:30                                     ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-16 10:30                                       ` Mike Rapoport
2021-03-16 11:02                                       ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16 11:02                                         ` Liang, Liang (Leo)
2021-03-16 11:10                                         ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-16 11:10                                           ` David Hildenbrand

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