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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Nikita@Namesys.COM
Subject: Re: More vm benchmarking
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 01:47:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040225014757.4c79f2af.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403C66D2.6010302@cyberone.com.au>

Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
>
> kernel | run | -j5 | -j10 | -j15 |
>  2.6.3    1     136   886    2511
>  2.6.3    2     150   838    2465
> 
>  -mm2     1     136   646    1484
>  -mm2     2     142   676    1265
> 
>  -mm3     1     135   881    1828
>  -mm3     2     146   790    1844
> 
>  This quite clearly shows your patches hurting as I told you.

Probably.  But these differences are small, relative to some differences
wrt 2.4.x

> Why did it get slower?

Dunno.  Maybe the workload prefers imbalanced zone scanning.

> I assume it is because the batching patch places uneven
>  pressure on normal and DMA zones.

The patch improves highmem-vs-lowmem balancing from 10:1 to 1:1.  What
makes you think that it worsens ZONE_NORMAL-vs-ZONE_DMA balancing?

It's easy enough to instrument - just split pgsteal_lo into pgsteal_normal
and pgsteal_dma.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-25  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-25  9:11 Nick Piggin
2004-02-25  9:21 ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-25  9:47 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-02-25  9:57   ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-25 10:04     ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-25 11:50       ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-26  0:51         ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-26  1:14           ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-26  1:35             ` Nick Piggin
2004-02-26  1:57               ` Andrew Morton
2004-02-26  2:04                 ` Nick Piggin

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