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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Huang Ying <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, LKP ML <lkp@01.org>
Subject: Re: [LKP] [mm] 3484b2de949: -46.2% aim7.jobs-per-min
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:53:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150227115304.GF3087@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425021696.10337.55.camel@linux.intel.com>

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 03:21:36PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> commit 3484b2de9499df23c4604a513b36f96326ae81ad ("mm: rearrange zone fields into read-only, page alloc, statistics and page reclaim lines")
> 
> The perf cpu-cycles for spinlock (zone->lock) increased a lot.  I suspect there are some cache ping-pong or false sharing.
> 

Annoying because this is pretty much the opposite of what I found during
testing. What is the kernel config? Similar to the kernel config, can you
post "pahole -C zone vmlinux" for the kernel you built? I should get the same
result if I use the same kernel config but no harm in being sure. Thanks.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: lkp@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [mm] 3484b2de949: -46.2% aim7.jobs-per-min
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:53:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150227115304.GF3087@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425021696.10337.55.camel@linux.intel.com>

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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 03:21:36PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> FYI, we noticed the below changes on
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> commit 3484b2de9499df23c4604a513b36f96326ae81ad ("mm: rearrange zone fields into read-only, page alloc, statistics and page reclaim lines")
> 
> The perf cpu-cycles for spinlock (zone->lock) increased a lot.  I suspect there are some cache ping-pong or false sharing.
> 

Annoying because this is pretty much the opposite of what I found during
testing. What is the kernel config? Similar to the kernel config, can you
post "pahole -C zone vmlinux" for the kernel you built? I should get the same
result if I use the same kernel config but no harm in being sure. Thanks.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-27 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-27  7:21 [LKP] [mm] 3484b2de949: -46.2% aim7.jobs-per-min Huang Ying
2015-02-27  7:21 ` Huang Ying
2015-02-27 11:53 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2015-02-27 11:53   ` Mel Gorman
2015-02-28  1:24   ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-02-28  1:24     ` Huang Ying
2015-02-28  7:57   ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-02-28  7:57     ` Huang Ying
2015-02-28  1:46 ` [LKP] " Mel Gorman
2015-02-28  1:46   ` Mel Gorman
2015-02-28  2:30   ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-02-28  2:30     ` Huang Ying
2015-02-28  2:42     ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-02-28  2:42       ` Huang Ying
2015-02-28  7:30   ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-02-28  7:30     ` Huang Ying
2015-03-05  5:34     ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-03-05  5:34       ` Huang Ying
2015-03-05 10:26       ` [LKP] " Mel Gorman
2015-03-05 10:26         ` Mel Gorman
2015-03-23  8:46         ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-03-23  8:46           ` Huang Ying
2015-03-25 10:54           ` [LKP] " Mel Gorman
2015-03-25 10:54             ` Mel Gorman
2015-03-27  8:49             ` [LKP] " Huang Ying
2015-03-27  8:49               ` Huang Ying

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