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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jim Schutt <jaschut@sandia.gov>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: excessive CPU utilization by isolate_freepages?
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:28:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FEBA520.4030205@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FEB9E73.5040709@kernel.org>

On 06/27/2012 07:59 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:

> I doubt compaction try to migrate continuously although we have no free memory.
> Could you apply this patch and retest?
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/21/30

Another possibility is that compaction is succeeding every time,
but since we always start scanning all the way at the beginning
and end of each zone, we waste a lot of CPU time rescanning the
same pages (that we just filled up with moved pages) to see if
any are free.

In short, due to the way compaction behaves right now,
compaction + isolate_freepages are essentially quadratic.

What we need to do is remember where we left off after a
successful compaction, so we can continue the search there
at the next invocation.

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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jim Schutt <jaschut@sandia.gov>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: excessive CPU utilization by isolate_freepages?
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:28:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FEBA520.4030205@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FEB9E73.5040709@kernel.org>

On 06/27/2012 07:59 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:

> I doubt compaction try to migrate continuously although we have no free memory.
> Could you apply this patch and retest?
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/21/30

Another possibility is that compaction is succeeding every time,
but since we always start scanning all the way at the beginning
and end of each zone, we waste a lot of CPU time rescanning the
same pages (that we just filled up with moved pages) to see if
any are free.

In short, due to the way compaction behaves right now,
compaction + isolate_freepages are essentially quadratic.

What we need to do is remember where we left off after a
successful compaction, so we can continue the search there
at the next invocation.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-28  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-27 21:59 excessive CPU utilization by isolate_freepages? Jim Schutt
2012-06-27 21:59 ` Jim Schutt
2012-06-27 22:35 ` Mark Nelson
2012-06-27 22:35   ` Mark Nelson
2012-06-27 23:59 ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-27 23:59   ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-28  0:28   ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-06-28  0:28     ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-28  0:52     ` David Rientjes
2012-06-28  0:52       ` David Rientjes
2012-06-28  0:58       ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-28  0:58         ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-28  1:06         ` David Rientjes
2012-06-28  1:06           ` David Rientjes
2012-06-28  1:18           ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-28  1:18             ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-28  1:13       ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-28  1:13         ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-28  0:55     ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-28  0:55       ` Minchan Kim
2012-06-28 11:36 ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-28 11:36   ` Mel Gorman
2012-06-28 15:30   ` Jim Schutt
2012-06-28 15:30     ` Jim Schutt

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