From: "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>, Aubrey Li <aubrey.li@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] autonuma: Support to scan page table asynchronously
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:24:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8rsxlws.fsf@yhuang-dev.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200415113226.GE20730@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (Peter Zijlstra's message of "Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:32:26 +0200")
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 01:06:46PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
>> While it's just an opinion, my preference would be to focus on reducing
>> the cost and amount of scanning done -- particularly for threads.
>
> This; I really don't believe in those back-charging things, esp. since
> not having cgroups or having multiple applications in a single cgroup is
> a valid setup.
Technically, it appears possible to back-charge the CPU time to the
process/thread directly (not the cgroup).
> Another way to reduce latency spikes is to decrease both
> sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_delay and sysctl_numa_balancing_scan_size.
> Then you do more smaller scans. By scanning more often you reduce the
> contrast, by reducing the size you lower the max latency.
Yes. This can reduce latency spikes.
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying
> And this is all assuming you actually want numa balancing for this
> process.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-16 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-14 8:19 [RFC] autonuma: Support to scan page table asynchronously Huang Ying
2020-04-14 12:06 ` Mel Gorman
2020-04-15 8:14 ` Huang, Ying
2020-04-15 8:14 ` Huang, Ying
2020-04-17 7:05 ` SeongJae Park
2020-04-17 10:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-17 10:21 ` SeongJae Park
2020-04-17 12:16 ` Mel Gorman
2020-04-17 12:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-17 12:44 ` SeongJae Park
2020-04-17 14:46 ` Mel Gorman
2020-04-18 9:48 ` SeongJae Park
2020-04-20 2:32 ` Huang, Ying
2020-04-20 2:32 ` Huang, Ying
2020-04-15 11:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-16 1:24 ` Huang, Ying [this message]
2020-04-16 1:24 ` Huang, Ying
2020-04-17 10:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-04-20 3:26 ` Huang, Ying
2020-04-20 3:26 ` Huang, Ying
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