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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>, Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>,
	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmscan: raise the bar to PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:55:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=+muw_2jWq1QKsxp6A_fAtdhdns7MD_bKQo-72@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100731173328.GA21072@infradead.org>

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:13:58AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>> FYI I did some memory stress test and find there are much more order-1
>> (and higher) users than fork(). This means lots of running applications
>> may stall on direct reclaim.
>>
>> Basically all of these slab caches will do high order allocations:
>
> It looks much, much worse on my system.  Basically all inode structures,
> and also tons of frequently allocated xfs structures fall into this
> category,  None of them actually anywhere near the size of a page, which
> makes me wonder why we do such high order allocations:

Do you have CONFIG_SLUB enabled? It does high order allocations by
default for performance reasons.

> slabinfo - version: 2.1
> # name            <active_objs> <num_objs> <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : tunables <limit> <batchcount> <sharedfactor> : slabdata <active_slabs> <num_slabs> <sharedavail>
> nfsd4_stateowners      0      0    424   19    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
> kvm_vcpu               0      0  10400    3    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
> kmalloc_dma-512       32     32    512   16    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
> mqueue_inode_cache     18     18    896   18    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
> xfs_inode         279008 279008   1024   16    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata  17438  17438      0
> xfs_efi_item          44     44    360   22    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
> xfs_efd_item          44     44    368   22    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
> xfs_trans             40     40    800   20    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
> xfs_da_state          32     32    488   16    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
> nfs_inode_cache        0      0   1016   16    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
> isofs_inode_cache      0      0    632   25    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
> fat_inode_cache        0      0    664   12    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
> hugetlbfs_inode_cache     14     14    584   14    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
> ext4_inode_cache       0      0    968   16    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
> ext2_inode_cache      21     21    776   21    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
> ext3_inode_cache       0      0    800   20    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
> rpc_inode_cache       19     19    832   19    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      1      1      0
> UDP-Lite               0      0    768   21    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      0      0      0
> ip_dst_cache         170    378    384   21    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     18     18      0
> RAW                   63     63    768   21    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      3      3      0
> UDP                   52     84    768   21    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      4      4      0
> TCP                   60    100   1600   20    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      5      5      0
> blkdev_queue          42     42   2216   14    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      3      3      0
> sock_inode_cache     650    713    704   23    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     31     31      0
> skbuff_fclone_cache     36     36    448   18    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      2      2      0
> shmem_inode_cache   3620   3948    776   21    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    188    188      0
> proc_inode_cache    1818   1875    632   25    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     75     75      0
> bdev_cache            57     57    832   19    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      3      3      0
> inode_cache         7934   7938    584   14    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    567    567      0
> files_cache          689    713    704   23    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     31     31      0
> signal_cache         301    342    896   18    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     19     19      0
> sighand_cache        192    210   2112   15    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     14     14      0
> task_struct          311    325   5616    5    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     65     65      0
> idr_layer_cache      578    585    544   15    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     39     39      0
> radix_tree_node    74738  74802    560   14    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata   5343   5343      0
> kmalloc-8192          29     32   8192    4    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata      8      8      0
> kmalloc-4096         194    208   4096    8    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     26     26      0
> kmalloc-2048         310    352   2048   16    8 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     22     22      0
> kmalloc-1024        1607   1616   1024   16    4 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata    101    101      0
> kmalloc-512          484    512    512   16    2 : tunables    0    0    0 : slabdata     32     32      0
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-31 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-28  7:17 Wu Fengguang
2010-07-28  7:49 ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-28  8:46   ` [PATCH] vmscan: remove wait_on_page_writeback() from pageout() Wu Fengguang
2010-07-28  9:10     ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-28  9:30       ` Wu Fengguang
2010-07-28  9:45         ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-28  9:43       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-28  9:50         ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-28  9:59           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-01  5:27             ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-01  5:49               ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-01  8:32               ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-01  8:35                 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-08-01  8:40                   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-01  5:17         ` Wu Fengguang
2010-07-28 16:29     ` Minchan Kim
2010-07-28 11:40 ` Why PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls for a long time KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-28 13:10   ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-29 10:34     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-29 14:24       ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-30  4:54         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-30 10:30           ` Mel Gorman
2010-08-01  8:47             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-04 11:10               ` Mel Gorman
2010-08-05  6:20                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-08-05  8:09                   ` Andreas Mohr
2010-07-28 17:30   ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-29  1:01     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-07-30 13:17 ` [PATCH] vmscan: raise the bar to PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stalls Andrea Arcangeli
2010-07-30 13:31   ` Mel Gorman
2010-07-31 16:13 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-07-31 17:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-31 17:55     ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2010-07-31 17:59       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-31 18:09         ` Pekka Enberg

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