From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, swap: Make VMA based swap readahead configurable
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:49:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171002144903.d58ed6887adfd9dc4cdfd697@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e7531802-c4bc-9a5b-1a9c-d7909f2d1107@intel.com>
On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 08:45:40 -0700 Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> wrote:
> On 09/27/2017 06:02 PM, Huang, Ying wrote:
> > I still think there may be a performance regression for some users
> > because of the change of the algorithm and the knobs, and the
> > performance regression can be resolved via setting the new knob. But I
> > don't think there will be a functionality regression. Do you agree?
>
> A performance regression is a regression. I don't understand why we are
> splitting hairs as to what kind of regression it is.
>
Yes.
Ying, please find us a way of avoiding any disruption to existing
system setups. One which doesn't require that the operator perform a
configuration change to restore prior behaviour/performance. And
please let's get this done well in advance of the 4.14 release.
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-21 1:33 Huang, Ying
2017-09-25 5:41 ` Minchan Kim
2017-09-25 5:54 ` Huang, Ying
2017-09-25 6:17 ` Minchan Kim
2017-09-25 6:24 ` Huang, Ying
2017-09-25 6:30 ` Minchan Kim
2017-09-26 13:21 ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-27 1:36 ` Huang, Ying
2017-09-27 5:04 ` Minchan Kim
2017-09-27 7:48 ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-27 8:04 ` Minchan Kim
2017-09-27 8:35 ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-27 13:15 ` Minchan Kim
2017-09-27 13:22 ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-27 13:41 ` Minchan Kim
2017-09-27 13:50 ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-27 14:10 ` Minchan Kim
2017-09-27 14:17 ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-28 1:02 ` Huang, Ying
2017-10-02 7:23 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-02 15:45 ` Dave Hansen
2017-10-02 21:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2017-10-06 12:28 ` huang ying
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