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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com,
	aaron.lu@intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alex.williamson@redhat.com, bsd@redhat.com,
	darrick.wong@oracle.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	jgg@mellanox.com, jwadams@google.com, jiangshanlai@gmail.com,
	mike.kravetz@oracle.com, Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com,
	prasad.singamsetty@oracle.com, rdunlap@infradead.org,
	steven.sistare@oracle.com, tim.c.chen@intel.com, tj@kernel.org,
	vbabka@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/13] ktask: multithread CPU-intensive kernel work
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 18:29:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181105172931.GP4361@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181105165558.11698-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>

On Mon 05-11-18 11:55:45, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> Michal, you mentioned that ktask should be sensitive to CPU utilization[1].
> ktask threads now run at the lowest priority on the system to avoid disturbing
> busy CPUs (more details in patches 4 and 5).  Does this address your concern?
> The plan to address your other comments is explained below.

I have only glanced through the documentation patch and it looks like it
will be much less disruptive than the previous attempts. Now the obvious
question is how does this behave on a moderately or even busy system
when you compare that to a single threaded execution. Some numbers about
best/worst case execution would be really helpful.

I will look closer later.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-05 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-05 16:55 [RFC PATCH v4 00/13] ktask: multithread CPU-intensive kernel work Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 01/13] ktask: add documentation Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 21:19   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-06  2:27     ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-06  8:49   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-06 20:34     ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-06 20:51       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-11-07 10:27         ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-07 20:21           ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-07 10:35       ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-11-07 21:20         ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-08 17:26   ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-11-08 19:15     ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-08 19:24       ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-11-27 19:50   ` Pavel Machek
2018-11-28 16:56     ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 02/13] ktask: multithread CPU-intensive kernel work Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 20:51   ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-06  2:24     ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 03/13] ktask: add undo support Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 04/13] ktask: run helper threads at MAX_NICE Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 05/13] workqueue, ktask: renice helper threads to prevent starvation Daniel Jordan
2018-11-13 16:34   ` Tejun Heo
2018-11-19 16:45     ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-20 16:33       ` Tejun Heo
2018-11-20 17:03         ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 06/13] vfio: parallelize vfio_pin_map_dma Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 21:51   ` Alex Williamson
2018-11-06  2:42     ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 07/13] mm: change locked_vm's type from unsigned long to atomic_long_t Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 08/13] vfio: remove unnecessary mmap_sem writer acquisition around locked_vm Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 09/13] vfio: relieve mmap_sem reader cacheline bouncing by holding it longer Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 10/13] mm: enlarge type of offset argument in mem_map_offset and mem_map_next Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 11/13] mm: parallelize deferred struct page initialization within each node Daniel Jordan
2018-11-10  3:48   ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-11-12 16:54     ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-12 22:15       ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-11-19 16:01         ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-27  0:12           ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2018-11-27 20:23             ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-19 16:29       ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 12/13] mm: parallelize clear_gigantic_page Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 16:55 ` [RFC PATCH v4 13/13] hugetlbfs: parallelize hugetlbfs_fallocate with ktask Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 17:29 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-11-06  1:29   ` [RFC PATCH v4 00/13] ktask: multithread CPU-intensive kernel work Daniel Jordan
2018-11-06  9:21     ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-07 20:17       ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-05 18:49 ` Zi Yan
2018-11-06  2:20   ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-06  2:48     ` Zi Yan
2018-11-06 19:00       ` Daniel Jordan
2018-11-30 19:18 ` Tejun Heo
2018-12-01  0:13   ` Daniel Jordan
2018-12-03 16:16     ` Tejun Heo

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