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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] mm/swap.c: reduce lock contention in lru_cache_add
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:55:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201126155553.GT4327@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3d53633-af28-79c1-f42c-d5b851af4d56@suse.cz>

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 04:44:04PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> However, Matthew wanted to increase pagevec size [1] and once 15^2 becomes
> 63^2, it starts to be somewhat more worrying.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20201105172651.2455-1-willy@infradead.org/

Well, Tim wanted it ;-)

I would suggest that rather than an insertion sort (or was it a bubble
sort?), we should be using a Shell sort.  It's ideal for these kinds of
smallish arrays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellsort

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-26 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-20  8:27 [PATCH next] mm/swap.c: reduce lock contention in lru_cache_add Alex Shi
2020-11-20 23:19 ` Andrew Morton
2020-11-23  4:46   ` Alex Shi
2020-11-25 15:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-11-26  3:12   ` Alex Shi
2020-11-26 11:05     ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-11-26  4:52 ` Yu Zhao
2020-11-26  6:39   ` Alex Shi
2020-11-26  7:24     ` Yu Zhao
2020-11-26  8:09       ` Alex Shi
2020-11-26 11:22       ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-11-26 15:44         ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-11-26 15:55           ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-11-27  3:14             ` Alex Shi
2020-12-01  8:02             ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/swap.c: pre-sort pages in pagevec for pagevec_lru_move_fn Alex Shi
2020-12-01  8:02               ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/swap.c: bail out early for no memcg and no numa Alex Shi
2020-12-01  8:02               ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/swap.c: extend the usage to pagevec_lru_add Alex Shi
2020-12-01  8:10               ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/swap.c: pre-sort pages in pagevec for pagevec_lru_move_fn Michal Hocko
2020-12-01  8:20                 ` Alex Shi
2020-12-25  9:59             ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] pre sort pages on lruvec in pagevec Alex Shi
2020-12-25  9:59               ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] mm/swap.c: pre-sort pages in pagevec for pagevec_lru_move_fn Alex Shi
2020-12-25  9:59               ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] mm/swap.c: bail out early for no memcg and no numa Alex Shi
2020-12-25  9:59               ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] mm/swap.c: extend the usage to pagevec_lru_add Alex Shi

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