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From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <AKPM@Osdl.ORG>,
	Linux MM Mailing List <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: 1/4 batch mark_page_accessed()
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:19:40 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041127081940.GB7740@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16808.23030.312384.635657@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 01:41:58PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  > 
>  > Average Half Load -j 4 Run:                     Average Half Load -j 4 Run:
>  > Elapsed Time 274.916                            Elapsed Time 245.026
>  > User Time 833.63                                User Time 832.34
>  > System Time 73.704                              System Time 73.41
>  > Percent CPU 335.8                               Percent CPU 373.6
>  > Context Switches 12984.8                        Context Switches 13427.4
>  > Sleeps 21459.2                                  Sleeps 21642
> 
> What is "System Time" here? Does in include CPU consumption by, say,
> kswapd?

I dont think "System Time" counts for kswapd - but only time spent inside 
the kernel, including page reclamation efforts.

> If not, then one may conjecture that mark_page_accessed batching
> modifies ordering of pages on zone "LRU" lists in a way that measurably
> changes efficiency of VM scanning, and mostly affects process that scans
> most---kswapd.

I agree.
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      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-27  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-21 15:44 Nikita Danilov
2004-11-21 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-24 10:40   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-24 16:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-24 21:53   ` Nikita Danilov
2004-11-26 18:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-27  0:37   ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-30 16:29     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-01  1:33       ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-30 22:57         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-01 12:23         ` Nikita Danilov
2004-12-01 18:58           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-12-02  1:59             ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-27 10:41   ` Nikita Danilov
2004-11-27  8:19     ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]

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