On 11/20/2015 04:55 PM, Aaron Lu wrote: > On 11/19/2015 09:29 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> +CC Andrea, David, Joonsoo >> >> On 11/19/2015 10:29 AM, Aaron Lu wrote: >>> The vmstat and perf-profile are also attached, please let me know if you >>> need any more information, thanks. >> >> Output from vmstat (the tool) isn't much useful here, a periodic "cat >> /proc/vmstat" would be much better. > > No problem. > >> The perf profiles are somewhat weirdly sorted by children cost (?), but >> I noticed a very high cost (46%) in pageblock_pfn_to_page(). This could >> be due to a very large but sparsely populated zone. Could you provide >> /proc/zoneinfo? > > Is a one time /proc/zoneinfo enough or also a periodic one? Please see attached, note that this is a new run so the perf profile is a little different. Thanks, Aaron