From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: fix cpuhotplug statistics flushing
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 12:50:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YB2FVc7tNL2RUNm0@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210204193446.GA2053875@carbon.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 11:34:46AM -0800, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > It even passes with a reduced margin in the patched kernel, since the
> > percpu drift - which this test already tried to account for - is now
> > only on the page_counter side (whereas memory.stat is always precise).
> >
> > I'm going to include that data in the v2 changelog, as well as a patch
> > to update test_kmem.c to the more stringent error tolerances.
>
> Hm, I'm not sure it's a good idea to unconditionally lower the error tolerance:
> it's convenient to be able to run the same test on older kernels.
Well, an older version of the kernel will have an older version of the
test that is tailored towards that kernel's specific behavior. That's
sort of the point of tracking code and tests in the same git tree: to
have meaningful, effective and precise tests of an ever-changing
implementation. Trying to be backward compatible will lower the test
signal and miss regressions, when a backward compatible version is at
most one git checkout away.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-05 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-02 18:47 [PATCH 0/7]: mm: memcontrol: switch to rstat Johannes Weiner
2021-02-02 18:47 ` [PATCH 1/7] mm: memcontrol: fix cpuhotplug statistics flushing Johannes Weiner
2021-02-02 22:23 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-02-02 23:07 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-02-03 2:28 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-02-04 19:29 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-02-04 19:34 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-02-05 17:50 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2021-02-04 13:28 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 18:47 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm: memcontrol: kill mem_cgroup_nodeinfo() Johannes Weiner
2021-02-02 22:24 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-02-02 23:13 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-02-04 13:29 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 18:47 ` [PATCH 3/7] mm: memcontrol: privatize memcg_page_state query functions Johannes Weiner
2021-02-02 22:26 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-02-02 23:17 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-02-04 13:30 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 18:47 ` [PATCH 4/7] cgroup: rstat: support cgroup1 Johannes Weiner
2021-02-03 1:16 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-02-04 13:39 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-04 16:01 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-02-04 16:42 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 18:47 ` [PATCH 5/7] cgroup: rstat: punt root-level optimization to individual controllers Johannes Weiner
2021-02-02 18:47 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm: memcontrol: switch to rstat Johannes Weiner
2021-02-03 1:47 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-02-04 16:26 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-02-04 18:45 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-02-04 20:05 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-02-04 14:19 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-04 16:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-02-04 16:44 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-04 20:28 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-02-05 15:05 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-05 16:34 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-02-08 14:07 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 18:47 ` [PATCH 7/7] mm: memcontrol: consolidate lruvec stat flushing Johannes Weiner
2021-02-03 2:25 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-02-04 21:44 ` Johannes Weiner
2021-02-04 21:47 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-02-05 15:17 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-05 17:10 ` Johannes Weiner
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