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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
To: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>,
	Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/9] split page table lock for PMD tables
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:31:37 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130920123137.BE2F7E0090@blue.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130919171727.GC6802@sgi.com>

Alex Thorlton wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:25:31PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > Alex Thorlton noticed that some massivly threaded workloads work poorly,
> > if THP enabled. This patchset fixes this by introducing split page table
> > lock for PMD tables. hugetlbfs is not covered yet.
> > 
> > This patchset is based on work by Naoya Horiguchi.
> > 
> > Changes:
> >  v2:
> >   - reuse CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS for PMD split lock;
> >   - s/huge_pmd_lock/pmd_lock/g;
> >   - assume pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() can fail;
> >   - fix format line in task_mem() for VmPTE;
> > 
> > Benchmark (from Alex): ftp://shell.sgi.com/collect/appsx_test/pthread_test.tar.gz
> > Run on 4 socket Westmere with 128 GiB of RAM.
> 
> Kirill,
> 
> I'm hitting some performance issues with these patches on our larger
> machines (>=128 cores/256 threads).  I've managed to livelock larger
> systems with one of our tests (I'll publish this one soon), and I'm
> actually seeing a performance hit on some of the smaller ones.

Does "performance hit" mean performance degradation?

> I'm currently collecting some results to show the problems I'm hitting, and
> trying to research what's causing the livelock.  For now I just wanted to let
> you know that I'm seeing some issues.  I'll be in touch with more details.

Looking forward for more details. Thanks for testing.

I'll try to find a bigger machine myself.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-20 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-16 11:25 Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-16 11:25 ` [PATCHv2 1/9] mm: rename USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS to USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-16 11:25 ` [PATCHv2 2/9] mm: convert mm->nr_ptes to atomic_t Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-17 14:33   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-16 11:25 ` [PATCHv2 3/9] mm: introduce api for split page table lock for PMD level Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-16 11:25 ` [PATCHv2 4/9] mm, thp: change pmd_trans_huge_lock() to return taken lock Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-16 11:25 ` [PATCHv2 5/9] mm, thp: move ptl taking inside page_check_address_pmd() Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-16 11:25 ` [PATCHv2 6/9] mm, thp: do not access mm->pmd_huge_pte directly Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-16 11:25 ` [PATCHv2 7/9] mm: convent the rest to new page table lock api Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-16 11:25 ` [PATCHv2 8/9] mm: implement split page table lock for PMD level Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-17 14:28   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-16 11:25 ` [PATCHv2 9/9] x86, mm: enable " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-16 11:44 ` [PATCHv2 0/9] split page table lock for PMD tables Peter Zijlstra
2013-09-16 12:11   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-19 17:17 ` Alex Thorlton
2013-09-20 12:31   ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2013-09-24 16:44     ` Alex Thorlton
2013-09-26 10:50       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-26 15:42         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-27  0:04           ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-09-26 21:19         ` Alex Thorlton
2013-09-26 21:38           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-26 21:42             ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-09-26 21:44               ` Alex Thorlton
2013-09-26 21:43             ` Alex Thorlton

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