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From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
To: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
	Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@mellanox.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Page allocator bottleneck
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:45:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180427084558.GB4009@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180423131033.GA13792@intel.com>

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 09:10:33PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:54:57AM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I ran my tests with your patches.
> > Initial BW numbers are significantly higher than I documented back then in
> > this mail-thread.
> > For example, in driver #2 (see original mail thread), with 6 rings, I now
> > get 92Gbps (slightly less than linerate) in comparison to 64Gbps back then.
> > 
> > However, there were many kernel changes since then, I need to isolate your
> > changes. I am not sure I can finish this today, but I will surely get to it
> > next week after I'm back from vacation.
> > 
> > Still, when I increase the scale (more rings, i.e. more cpus), I see that
> > queued_spin_lock_slowpath gets to 60%+ cpu. Still high, but lower than it
> > used to be.
> 
> I wonder if it is on allocation path or free path?

Just FYI, I have pushed two more commits on top of the branch.
They should improve free path zone lock contention for MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE
pages(most kernel code alloc such pages), you may consider apply them if
free path contention is a problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-27  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-14 16:49 Page allocator bottleneck Tariq Toukan
2017-09-14 16:49 ` Tariq Toukan
2017-09-14 20:19 ` Andi Kleen
2017-09-14 20:19   ` Andi Kleen
2017-09-17 15:43   ` Tariq Toukan
2017-09-15  7:28 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-17 16:16   ` Tariq Toukan
2017-09-18  7:34     ` Aaron Lu
2017-09-18  7:44       ` Aaron Lu
2017-09-18 15:33         ` Tariq Toukan
2017-09-19  7:23           ` Aaron Lu
2017-09-19  7:23             ` Aaron Lu
2017-09-15 10:23 ` Mel Gorman
2017-09-18  9:16   ` Tariq Toukan
2017-11-02 17:21     ` Tariq Toukan
2017-11-02 17:21       ` Tariq Toukan
2017-11-03 13:40       ` Mel Gorman
2017-11-08  5:42         ` Tariq Toukan
2017-11-08  5:42           ` Tariq Toukan
2017-11-08  9:35           ` Mel Gorman
2017-11-09  3:51             ` Figo.zhang
2017-11-09  5:06             ` Tariq Toukan
2017-11-09  5:21             ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-11-09  5:21               ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2018-04-21  8:15       ` Aaron Lu
2018-04-22 16:43         ` Tariq Toukan
2018-04-23  8:54           ` Tariq Toukan
2018-04-23  8:54             ` Tariq Toukan
2018-04-23 13:10             ` Aaron Lu
2018-04-27  8:45               ` Aaron Lu [this message]
2018-05-02 13:38                 ` Tariq Toukan

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