From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Andrea Reale <ar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm, numa: rework do_pages_move
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 19:09:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180105180905.GR2801@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1801051113170.25466@nuc-kabylake>
On Fri 05-01-18 11:15:18, Cristopher Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2018, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > Yes. I am really wondering because there souldn't anything specific to
> > improve the situation with patch 2 and 3. Likewise the only overhead
> > from the patch 1 I can see is the reduced batching of the mmap_sem. But
> > then I am wondering what would compensate that later...
>
> Could you reduce the frequency of taking mmap_sem? Maybe take it when
> picking a new node and drop it when done with that node before migrating
> the list of pages?
I believe there should be some cap on the number of pages. We shouldn't
keep it held for million of pages if all of them are moved to the same
node. I would really like to postpone that to later unless it causes
some noticeable regressions because this would complicate the code
further and I am not sure this is all worth it.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-05 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-03 8:25 [PATCH 0/3] unclutter thp migration Michal Hocko
2018-01-03 8:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm, numa: rework do_pages_move Michal Hocko
2018-01-05 3:52 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-01-05 9:14 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-05 9:20 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-01-05 9:33 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-05 17:15 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-01-05 18:09 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-01-05 18:41 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-01-05 18:48 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-05 19:27 ` Christopher Lameter
2018-01-05 19:44 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-29 22:06 ` Zi Yan
2018-01-29 22:35 ` Andrew Morton
2018-01-29 23:39 ` Zi Yan
2018-01-29 23:48 ` Andrew Morton
2018-01-03 8:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm, migrate: remove reason argument from new_page_t Michal Hocko
2018-01-03 9:11 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-03 14:00 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-01-03 14:09 ` Michal Hocko
2018-01-03 14:19 ` Anshuman Khandual
2018-01-03 8:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: unclutter THP migration Michal Hocko
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