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From: "Rob Mueller" <robm@fastmail.fm>
To: "Christoph Lameter" <cl@linux.com>, "Mel Gorman" <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Bron Gondwana" <brong@fastmail.fm>,
	"linux-mm" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad forfile/email/web servers
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:44:51 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F4A6AD940A32478B9CDE3EACAF33BC9D@jem> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.DEB.2.00.1009210911270.1271@router.home


> This could be a screwy hardware issue as pointed out before. Certain
> controllers restrict the memory that I/O can be done to also (32 bit
> controller only able to do I/O to lower 2G?, controller on a PCI bus that
> is local only to a particular node) which would make balancing
> the file cache difficult.

Ah interesting. Is there an easy way to tell if this is an issue? It's an 
ARECA RAID controller, this is the lspci -vvv data from it...

03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Areca Technology Corp. Device 1680
        Subsystem: Areca Technology Corp. Device 1680
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 26
        Region 0: Memory at b1900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Expansion ROM at b1c00000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [98] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ 
Queue=0/1 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [d0] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s 
unlimited, L1 <1us
                        ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable+ Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ 
Unsupported+
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 256 bytes, MaxReadReq 256 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- 
TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x8, ASPM unknown, 
Latency L0 <128ns, L1 unlimited
                        ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- 
CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x8, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ 
DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
        Kernel driver in use: arcmsr



Rob


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From: "Rob Mueller" <robm@fastmail.fm>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad forfile/email/web servers
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:44:51 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F4A6AD940A32478B9CDE3EACAF33BC9D@jem> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.DEB.2.00.1009210911270.1271@router.home


> This could be a screwy hardware issue as pointed out before. Certain
> controllers restrict the memory that I/O can be done to also (32 bit
> controller only able to do I/O to lower 2G?, controller on a PCI bus that
> is local only to a particular node) which would make balancing
> the file cache difficult.

Ah interesting. Is there an easy way to tell if this is an issue? It's an 
ARECA RAID controller, this is the lspci -vvv data from it...

03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Areca Technology Corp. Device 1680
        Subsystem: Areca Technology Corp. Device 1680
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ 
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- 
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 26
        Region 0: Memory at b1900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Expansion ROM at b1c00000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [98] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ 
Queue=0/1 Enable-
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
        Capabilities: [d0] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s 
unlimited, L1 <1us
                        ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable+ Non-Fatal+ Fatal+ 
Unsupported+
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 256 bytes, MaxReadReq 256 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- 
TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x8, ASPM unknown, 
Latency L0 <128ns, L1 unlimited
                        ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- 
CommClk+
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x8, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ 
DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
        Kernel driver in use: arcmsr



Rob

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13  3:39 Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad for file/email/web servers Robert Mueller
2010-09-16 10:01 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-16 10:01   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-16 17:06   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-16 17:06     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17  0:50     ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-17  0:50       ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-17  6:01       ` Shaohua Li
2010-09-17  6:01         ` Shaohua Li
2010-09-17  7:32         ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-17  7:32           ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-17 13:56           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17 13:56             ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17 14:09             ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-17 14:09               ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-17 14:22               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17 14:22                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-17 23:01                 ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-17 23:01                   ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-20  9:34   ` Mel Gorman
2010-09-20  9:34     ` Mel Gorman
2010-09-20 23:41     ` Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad forfile/email/web servers Rob Mueller
2010-09-20 23:41       ` Rob Mueller
2010-09-21  9:04       ` Mel Gorman
2010-09-21  9:04         ` Mel Gorman
2010-09-21 14:14         ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-21 14:14           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-22  3:44           ` Rob Mueller [this message]
2010-09-22  3:44             ` Rob Mueller
2010-09-27  2:01         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-27  2:01           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-27 13:53           ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-27 13:53             ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-27 23:17             ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-27 23:17               ` Robert Mueller
2010-09-28 12:35               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-28 12:35                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-28 12:42                 ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-28 12:42                   ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-28 12:49                   ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-28 12:49                     ` Christoph Lameter
2010-09-30  7:05             ` Andi Kleen
2010-09-30  7:05               ` Andi Kleen
2010-10-04 12:45             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-04 12:45               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-04 13:07               ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-04 13:07                 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-05  5:32                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-05  5:32                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-10-04 19:43               ` David Rientjes
2010-10-04 19:43                 ` David Rientjes
2010-09-21  1:05   ` Default zone_reclaim_mode = 1 on NUMA kernel is bad for file/email/web servers KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-09-21  1:05     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-09-27  2:04     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-27  2:04       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-09-27  2:06       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-09-27  2:06         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-09-23 11:44   ` Balbir Singh
2010-09-23 11:44     ` Balbir Singh
2010-09-30  8:38   ` Bron Gondwana
2010-09-30  8:38     ` Bron Gondwana

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