From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
dormando <dormando@rydia.net>,
Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] Reduce system disruption due to kswapd V2
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:14:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130410141445.GD3710@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0000013defd666bf-213d70fc-dfbd-4a50-82ed-e9f4f7391b55-000000@email.amazonses.com>
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 05:27:18PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> One additional measure that may be useful is to make kswapd prefer one
> specific processor on a socket. Two benefits arise from that:
>
> 1. Better use of cpu caches and therefore higher speed, less
> serialization.
>
Considering the volume of pages that kswapd can scan when it's active
I would expect that it trashes its cache anyway. The L1 cache would be
flushed after scanning struct pages for just a few MB of memory.
> 2. Reduction of the disturbances to one processor.
>
I've never checked it but I would have expected kswapd to stay on the
same processor for significant periods of time. Have you experienced
problems where kswapd bounces around on CPUs within a node causing
workload disruption?
--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-10 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-09 11:06 [PATCH 0/10] Reduce system disruption due to kswapd V2 Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 11:06 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm: vmscan: Limit the number of pages kswapd reclaims at each priority Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 13:27 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-10 6:47 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-09 11:06 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: vmscan: Obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd Mel Gorman
2013-04-10 7:16 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-10 14:08 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-11 0:14 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-11 9:09 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 11:06 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: vmscan: Flatten kswapd priority loop Mel Gorman
2013-04-10 7:47 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-10 13:29 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 2:45 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-09 11:06 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm: vmscan: Decide whether to compact the pgdat based on reclaim progress Mel Gorman
2013-04-10 8:05 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2013-04-10 13:57 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 2:46 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm: vmscan: Do not allow kswapd to scan at maximum priority Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: vmscan: Have kswapd writeback pages based on dirty pages encountered, not priority Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 2:51 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: vmscan: Block kswapd if it is encountering pages under writeback Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 2:54 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: vmscan: Have kswapd shrink slab only once per priority Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm: vmscan: Check if kswapd should writepage once per pgdat scan Mel Gorman
2013-04-09 11:07 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm: vmscan: Move logic from balance_pgdat() to kswapd_shrink_zone() Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 2:56 ` Rik van Riel
2013-04-09 17:27 ` [PATCH 0/10] Reduce system disruption due to kswapd V2 Christoph Lameter
2013-04-10 14:14 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2013-04-10 22:28 ` dormando
2013-04-10 23:46 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-04-11 9:10 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-11 20:13 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-11 20:55 ` Zlatko Calusic
2013-04-12 19:40 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 19:52 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 20:07 ` Zlatko Calusic
2013-04-12 20:41 ` Mel Gorman
2013-04-12 21:14 ` Zlatko Calusic
2013-04-22 6:37 ` Zlatko Calusic
2013-04-22 6:43 ` Simon Jeons
2013-04-22 6:54 ` Zlatko Calusic
2013-04-22 7:12 ` Simon Jeons
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