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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
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	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: parallelize deferred_init_memmap()
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 16:38:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C3C62BE-6363-41C3-834C-C3124EB3FFAB@joshtriplett.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0Uf7e5514SOi8dmkB5oXUK9bwqD_z-5KJ_F3MUn3CAQyPQ@mail.gmail.com>

On May 4, 2020 3:33:58 PM PDT, Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1:12 PM Daniel Jordan
><daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> wrote:
>>         /*
>> -        * Initialize and free pages in MAX_ORDER sized increments so
>> -        * that we can avoid introducing any issues with the buddy
>> -        * allocator.
>> +        * More CPUs always led to greater speedups on tested
>systems, up to
>> +        * all the nodes' CPUs.  Use all since the system is
>otherwise idle now.
>>          */
>
>I would be curious about your data. That isn't what I have seen in the
>past. Typically only up to about 8 or 10 CPUs gives you any benefit,
>beyond that I was usually cache/memory bandwidth bound.

I've found pretty much linear performance up to memory bandwidth, and on the systems I was testing, I didn't saturate memory bandwidth until about the full number of physical cores. From number of cores up to number of threads, the performance stayed about flat; it didn't get any better or worse.

- Josh

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-04 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-30 20:11 [PATCH 0/7] padata: parallelize deferred page init Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 1/7] padata: remove exit routine Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 2/7] padata: initialize earlier Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 3/7] padata: allocate work structures for parallel jobs from a pool Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 4/7] padata: add basic support for multithreaded jobs Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 5/7] mm: move zone iterator outside of deferred_init_maxorder() Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 21:43   ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-01  2:45     ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-04 22:10       ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-05  0:54         ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05 15:27           ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-06 22:39             ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-07 15:26               ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-07 20:20                 ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-07 21:18                   ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-07 22:15                     ` Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm: parallelize deferred_init_memmap() Daniel Jordan
2020-05-04 22:33   ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-04 23:38     ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2020-05-05  0:40       ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-05  1:48         ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05  2:09           ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05 14:55             ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-06 22:21               ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-06 22:36                 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-05-06 22:43                   ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-06 23:01                     ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-05  1:26     ` Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 20:11 ` [PATCH 7/7] padata: document multithreaded jobs Daniel Jordan
2020-04-30 21:31 ` [PATCH 0/7] padata: parallelize deferred page init Andrew Morton
2020-04-30 21:40   ` Pavel Tatashin
2020-05-01  2:40     ` Daniel Jordan
2020-05-01  0:50   ` Josh Triplett
2020-05-01  1:09 ` Josh Triplett
2020-05-01  2:48   ` Daniel Jordan

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