From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, dlezcano@fr.ibm.com,
penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, neilb@suse.de, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: split-lru performance mesurement part2
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:28:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EBD469.6090409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081007131719.8bb24698.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> dbench is pretty chaotic and it could be that a good change causes
> dbench to get worse. That's happened plenty of times in the past.
>
>
>> Do you have any suggestion?
>
>
> One of these:
>
> vmscan-give-referenced-active-and-unmapped-pages-a-second-trip-around-the-lru.patch
> vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch
>
> perhaps?
Worth a try, but it could just as well be a CPU scheduler change
that happens to indirectly impact locking :)
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Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-02 13:05 [PATCH 00/32] Swap over NFS - v19 Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 01/32] mm: gfp_to_alloc_flags() Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 02/32] mm: serialize access to min_free_kbytes Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 03/32] net: ipv6: clean up ip6_route_net_init() error handling Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-07 21:12 ` David Miller, Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 04/32] net: ipv6: initialize ip6_route sysctl vars in ip6_route_net_init() Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-07 21:15 ` David Miller, Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 05/32] swap over network documentation Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 06/32] mm: expose gfp_to_alloc_flags() Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 07/32] mm: tag reseve pages Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 08/32] mm: slb: add knowledge of reserve pages Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-03 9:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 09/32] mm: kmem_alloc_estimate() Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 10/32] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 11/32] mm: emergency pool Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 12/32] mm: system wide ALLOC_NO_WATERMARK Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 13/32] mm: __GFP_MEMALLOC Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 14/32] mm: memory reserve management Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 15/32] selinux: tag avc cache alloc as non-critical Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 16/32] net: wrap sk->sk_backlog_rcv() Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-07 21:19 ` David Miller, Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 17/32] net: packet split receive api Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-07 21:23 ` David Miller, Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 18/32] net: sk_allocation() - concentrate socket related allocations Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-07 21:26 ` David Miller, Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-08 6:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 19/32] netvm: network reserve infrastructure Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 20/32] netvm: INET reserves Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-22 5:31 ` Suresh Jayaraman
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 21/32] netvm: hook skb allocation to reserves Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 22/32] netvm: filter emergency skbs Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 23/32] netvm: prevent a stream specific deadlock Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 24/32] netfilter: NF_QUEUE vs emergency skbs Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 25/32] netvm: skb processing Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 26/32] mm: add support for non block device backed swap files Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 27/32] mm: methods for teaching filesystems about PG_swapcache pages Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 28/32] nfs: remove mempools Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 29/32] nfs: teach the NFS client how to treat PG_swapcache pages Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 30/32] nfs: disable data cache revalidation for swapfiles Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 31/32] nfs: enable swap on NFS Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 13:05 ` [PATCH 32/32] nfs: fix various memory recursions possible with swap over NFS Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-02 19:47 ` [PATCH 00/32] Swap over NFS - v19 Andrew Morton
2008-10-02 20:59 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2008-10-03 6:53 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-03 19:38 ` Rik van Riel
2008-10-04 15:05 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-10-07 14:26 ` split-lru performance mesurement part2 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-10-07 20:17 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-07 21:28 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2008-10-03 6:49 ` [PATCH 00/32] Swap over NFS - v19 Nick Piggin
2008-10-03 17:17 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2008-10-04 10:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-06 6:04 ` Suresh Jayaraman
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