From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/31] mm, vmstat: add infrastructure for per-node vmstats
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 09:15:40 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160706001540.GB12570@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160705081405.GE11498@techsingularity.net>
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 09:14:05AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 08:50:18AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > > @@ -172,13 +174,17 @@ void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void)
> > > int threshold;
> > >
> > > for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
> > > + struct pglist_data *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
> > > unsigned long max_drift, tolerate_drift;
> > >
> > > threshold = calculate_normal_threshold(zone);
> > >
> > > - for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
> > > + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
> > > per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu)->stat_threshold
> > > = threshold;
> > > + per_cpu_ptr(pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats, cpu)->stat_threshold
> > > + = threshold;
> > > + }
> >
> > I didn't see other patches yet so it might fix it then.
> >
> > per_cpu_nodestats is per node not zone but it use per-zone threshold
> > and even overwritten by next zones. I don't think it's not intended.
>
> It was intended that the threshold from one zone would be used but now
> that you point it out, it would use the threshold for the smallest zone
> in the node which is sub-optimal. I applied the patch below on top to
> use the threshold from the largest zone. I considered using the sum of
> all thresholds but feared it might allow too much per-cpu drift. It can
> be switched to the sum if we find a case where vmstat updates are too
> high.
Fair enough.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-06 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-01 20:01 [PATCH 00/31] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v8 Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 01/31] mm, vmstat: add infrastructure for per-node vmstats Mel Gorman
2016-07-04 23:50 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-05 8:14 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-06 0:15 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 02/31] mm, vmscan: move lru_lock to the node Mel Gorman
2016-07-05 0:03 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 03/31] mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node Mel Gorman
2016-07-05 1:19 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-05 10:14 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 04/31] mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis Mel Gorman
2016-07-07 1:12 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-07 9:48 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-08 2:28 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-08 10:05 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-14 6:28 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-14 7:48 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-18 4:52 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-18 12:11 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-18 14:27 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-19 8:30 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-19 14:25 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 05/31] mm, vmscan: have kswapd only scan based on the highest requested zone Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 06/31] mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 07/31] mm, vmscan: remove balance gap Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 08/31] mm, vmscan: simplify the logic deciding whether kswapd sleeps Mel Gorman
2016-07-05 5:59 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-05 10:26 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-06 0:30 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-06 8:31 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-07 5:51 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-07 9:56 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-07 1:20 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-07 10:17 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-08 2:44 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-08 10:11 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-14 5:23 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-14 8:32 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-18 5:07 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-18 6:51 ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-18 7:24 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-14 9:05 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-18 5:03 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 09/31] mm, vmscan: by default have direct reclaim only shrink once per node Mel Gorman
2016-07-07 1:43 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-07 10:27 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 10/31] mm, vmscan: remove duplicate logic clearing node congestion and dirty state Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 11/31] mm: vmscan: do not reclaim from kswapd if there is any eligible zone Mel Gorman
2016-07-05 6:11 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-05 10:38 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-06 1:25 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-06 8:42 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-07 6:27 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-07 10:55 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 12/31] mm, vmscan: make shrink_node decisions more node-centric Mel Gorman
2016-07-05 6:24 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-05 10:40 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 13/31] mm, memcg: move memcg limit enforcement from zones to nodes Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 14/31] mm, workingset: make working set detection node-aware Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 15/31] mm, page_alloc: consider dirtyable memory in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 16/31] mm: move page mapped accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 17/31] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 18/31] mm: move most file-based accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 19/31] mm: move vmscan writes and file write " Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 20/31] mm, vmscan: only wakeup kswapd once per node for the requested classzone Mel Gorman
2016-07-07 1:24 ` Joonsoo Kim
2016-07-07 10:58 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 21/31] mm, page_alloc: Wake kswapd based on the highest eligible zone Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 22/31] mm: convert zone_reclaim to node_reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 23/31] mm, vmscan: Avoid passing in classzone_idx unnecessarily to shrink_node Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 24/31] mm, vmscan: Avoid passing in classzone_idx unnecessarily to compaction_ready Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 25/31] mm, vmscan: add classzone information to tracepoints Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 26/31] mm, page_alloc: remove fair zone allocation policy Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 27/31] mm: page_alloc: cache the last node whose dirty limit is reached Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 28/31] mm: vmstat: replace __count_zone_vm_events with a zone id equivalent Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 29/31] mm: vmstat: account per-zone stalls and pages skipped during reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 30/31] mm, vmstat: print node-based stats in zoneinfo file Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 20:01 ` [PATCH 31/31] mm, vmstat: Remove zone and node double accounting by approximating retries Mel Gorman
2016-07-06 0:02 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-06 8:58 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-06 9:33 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-07 6:47 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-06 18:12 ` Dave Hansen
2016-07-07 11:26 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-04 1:37 ` [PATCH 00/31] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v8 Minchan Kim
2016-07-04 4:34 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-04 8:04 ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-04 9:55 ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-06 1:51 ` Minchan Kim
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-01 15:37 Mel Gorman
2016-07-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 01/31] mm, vmstat: add infrastructure for per-node vmstats Mel Gorman
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