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From: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>,
	penberg@kernel.org, mhocko@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm/slub: improve performance by skipping checked node in get_any_partial()
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 01:37:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01000167ce692d0d-ef68fdc8-4c30-40a4-8ca5-afbc3773c075-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181220144107.9376344c2be687615ea9aa69@linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, 20 Dec 2018, Andrew Morton wrote:

>   The result of (get_partial_count / get_partial_try_count):
>
>    +----------+----------------+------------+-------------+
>    |          |       Base     |    Patched |  Improvement|
>    +----------+----------------+------------+-------------+
>    |One Node  |       1:3      |    1:0     |      - 100% |

If you have one node then you already searched all your slabs. So we could
completely skip the get_any_partial() functionality in the non NUMA case
(if nr_node_ids == 1)


>    +----------+----------------+------------+-------------+
>    |Four Nodes|       1:5.8    |    1:2.5   |      -  56% |
>    +----------+----------------+------------+-------------+

Hmm.... Ok but that is the extreme slowpath.

>    Each version/system configuration combination has four round kernel
>    build tests. Take the average result of real to compare.
>
>    +----------+----------------+------------+-------------+
>    |          |       Base     |   Patched  |  Improvement|
>    +----------+----------------+------------+-------------+
>    |One Node  |      4m41s     |   4m32s    |     - 4.47% |
>    +----------+----------------+------------+-------------+
>    |Four Nodes|      4m45s     |   4m39s    |     - 2.92% |
>    +----------+----------------+------------+-------------+

3% on the four node case? That means that the slowpath is taken
frequently. Wonder why?

Can we also see the variability? Since this is a NUMA system there is
bound to be some indeterminism in those numbers.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-21  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-08  1:12 [PATCH] mm/slub: skip node in case there is no slab to acquire Wei Yang
2018-11-09 20:48 ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-09 23:47   ` Wei Yang
2018-11-13  9:12 ` [PATCH v2] " Wei Yang
2018-11-13 13:17 ` [PATCH] " Michal Hocko
2018-11-13 13:26   ` Wei Yang
2018-11-13 13:34     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-20  3:31 ` [PATCH v2] mm/slub: improve performance by skipping checked node in get_any_partial() Wei Yang
2018-11-22  3:05   ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-22  9:13     ` Wei Yang
2018-11-22 23:41     ` Wei Yang
2018-11-23 13:39       ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-23 13:49         ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-23 15:27           ` Wei Yang
2018-12-20 22:41   ` Andrew Morton
2018-12-21  0:25     ` Alexander Duyck
2018-12-21  3:29       ` Wei Yang
2018-12-21  1:37     ` Christopher Lameter [this message]
2018-12-21  1:37       ` Christopher Lameter
2018-12-21  3:33       ` Wei Yang
2018-12-24 22:03       ` Wei Yang

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