From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni.dodonov@intel.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [MMTests] IO metadata on XFS
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:44:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120703114424.GC14154@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120703105951.GB14154@suse.de>
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:59:51AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Can you run latencytop to see
> > if there is excessive starvation/wait times for allocation
> > completion?
>
> I'm not sure what format you are looking for. latencytop is shit for
> capturing information throughout a test and it does not easily allow you to
> record a snapshot of a test. You can record all the console output of course
> but that's a complete mess. I tried capturing /proc/latency_stats over time
> instead because that can be trivially sorted on a system-wide basis but
> as I write this I find that latency_stats was bust. It was just spitting out
>
> Latency Top version : v0.1
>
> and nothing else. Either latency_stats is broken or my config is. Not sure
> which it is right now and won't get enough time on this today to pinpoint it.
>
PEBKAC. Script that monitored /proc/latency_stats was not enabling
latency top via /proc/sys/kernel/latencytop
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni.dodonov@intel.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [MMTests] IO metadata on XFS
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:44:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120703114424.GC14154@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120703105951.GB14154@suse.de>
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:59:51AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Can you run latencytop to see
> > if there is excessive starvation/wait times for allocation
> > completion?
>
> I'm not sure what format you are looking for. latencytop is shit for
> capturing information throughout a test and it does not easily allow you to
> record a snapshot of a test. You can record all the console output of course
> but that's a complete mess. I tried capturing /proc/latency_stats over time
> instead because that can be trivially sorted on a system-wide basis but
> as I write this I find that latency_stats was bust. It was just spitting out
>
> Latency Top version : v0.1
>
> and nothing else. Either latency_stats is broken or my config is. Not sure
> which it is right now and won't get enough time on this today to pinpoint it.
>
PEBKAC. Script that monitored /proc/latency_stats was not enabling
latency top via /proc/sys/kernel/latencytop
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>,
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni.dodonov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [MMTests] IO metadata on XFS
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 12:44:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120703114424.GC14154@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120703105951.GB14154@suse.de>
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 11:59:51AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Can you run latencytop to see
> > if there is excessive starvation/wait times for allocation
> > completion?
>
> I'm not sure what format you are looking for. latencytop is shit for
> capturing information throughout a test and it does not easily allow you to
> record a snapshot of a test. You can record all the console output of course
> but that's a complete mess. I tried capturing /proc/latency_stats over time
> instead because that can be trivially sorted on a system-wide basis but
> as I write this I find that latency_stats was bust. It was just spitting out
>
> Latency Top version : v0.1
>
> and nothing else. Either latency_stats is broken or my config is. Not sure
> which it is right now and won't get enough time on this today to pinpoint it.
>
PEBKAC. Script that monitored /proc/latency_stats was not enabling
latency top via /proc/sys/kernel/latencytop
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-20 11:32 MMTests 0.04 Mel Gorman
2012-06-20 11:32 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:19 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:19 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:21 ` [MMTests] Page allocator Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:21 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:22 ` [MMTests] Network performance Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:22 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:23 ` [MMTests] IO metadata on ext3 Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:23 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:24 ` [MMTests] IO metadata on ext4 Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:24 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:25 ` [MMTests] IO metadata on XFS Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:25 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-29 11:25 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-01 23:54 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-01 23:54 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-01 23:54 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-02 6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-02 6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-02 6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-02 14:32 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-02 14:32 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-02 14:32 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-02 19:35 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-02 19:35 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-02 19:35 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 0:19 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-03 0:19 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-03 0:19 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-03 10:59 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 10:59 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 10:59 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 11:44 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2012-07-03 11:44 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 11:44 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 12:31 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-03 12:31 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-03 12:31 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-03 13:08 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 13:08 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 13:08 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 13:28 ` Eugeni Dodonov
2012-07-03 13:28 ` Eugeni Dodonov
2012-07-04 0:47 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-04 0:47 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-04 0:47 ` Dave Chinner
2012-07-04 9:51 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-04 9:51 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-04 9:51 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 13:04 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 13:04 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 13:04 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-03 14:04 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-03 14:04 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-03 14:04 ` Daniel Vetter
2012-07-02 13:30 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-02 13:30 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-02 13:30 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-04 15:52 ` [MMTests] Page reclaim performance on ext3 Mel Gorman
2012-07-04 15:52 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-04 15:53 ` [MMTests] Page reclaim performance on ext4 Mel Gorman
2012-07-04 15:53 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-04 15:53 ` [MMTests] Page reclaim performance on xfs Mel Gorman
2012-07-04 15:53 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-05 14:56 ` [MMTests] Interactivity during IO on ext3 Mel Gorman
2012-07-05 14:56 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-10 9:49 ` Jan Kara
2012-07-10 9:49 ` Jan Kara
2012-07-10 11:30 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-10 11:30 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-05 14:57 ` [MMTests] Interactivity during IO on ext4 Mel Gorman
2012-07-05 14:57 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:12 ` [MMTests] Scheduler Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:12 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:13 ` [MMTests] Sysbench read-only on ext3 Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:13 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-24 2:29 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-07-24 2:29 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-07-24 8:19 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-24 8:19 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-24 8:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-07-24 8:32 ` Mike Galbraith
2012-07-23 21:14 ` [MMTests] Sysbench read-only on ext4 Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:14 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:15 ` [MMTests] Sysbench read-only on xfs Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:15 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:17 ` [MMTests] memcachetest and parallel IO on ext3 Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:17 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:19 ` [MMTests] memcachetest and parallel IO on xfs Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:19 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:20 ` [MMTests] Stress high-order allocations on ext3 Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:20 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:21 ` [MMTests] dbench4 async " Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:21 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-16 14:52 ` Jan Kara
2012-08-16 14:52 ` Jan Kara
2012-08-21 22:00 ` Jan Kara
2012-08-21 22:00 ` Jan Kara
2012-08-22 10:48 ` Mel Gorman
2012-08-22 10:48 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:23 ` [MMTests] dbench4 async on ext4 Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:23 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:24 ` [MMTests] Threaded IO Performance on ext3 Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:24 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:25 ` [MMTests] Threaded IO Performance on xfs Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:25 ` Mel Gorman
2012-07-23 21:25 ` Mel Gorman
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