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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
To: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reduce vm_stat cacheline contention in __vm_enough_memory
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:57:16 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1110140856420.6411@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111014135055.GA28592@sgi.com>

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Dimitri Sivanich wrote:

> Testing on a smaller machine with 46 writer threads in parallel (my original
> test used 120).
>
> Looks as though cache-aligning and padding the end of the vm_stat array
> results in a ~150 MB/sec speedup.  This is a nice improvement for only 46
> writer threads, though it's not the full ~250 MB/sec speedup I get from
> setting OVERCOMMIT_NEVER.

Add to this the increase in the deltas for the ZVCs and change the stat
interval to 10 sec?

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-14 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20111012160202.GA18666@sgi.com>
2011-10-12 19:01 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-12 19:57   ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-13 15:06     ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-13 15:59       ` Andi Kleen
2011-10-13 15:23     ` Dimitri Sivanich
2011-10-13 15:54       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-13 20:50         ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-13 21:02           ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-13 21:24             ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-14 12:25               ` Dimitri Sivanich
2011-10-14 13:50                 ` Dimitri Sivanich
2011-10-14 13:57                   ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2011-10-14 14:19                     ` Dimitri Sivanich
2011-10-14 14:34                       ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-14 15:18                         ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-14 16:16                           ` Dimitri Sivanich
2011-10-18 13:48                             ` Dimitri Sivanich
2011-10-18 14:36                               ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-18 15:48                               ` Andi Kleen
2011-10-19  1:16                                 ` David Rientjes
2011-10-19 14:54                                   ` Dimitri Sivanich
2011-10-19 15:31                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2011-10-24 14:59                                       ` Dimitri Sivanich
     [not found]   ` <CADE8fzrdMOBF1RyyEpMVi8aKcgOVKRQSKi0=c1Qvh3p6hHcXRA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-10-13  0:07     ` Tim Chen
2011-10-13 14:15       ` Christoph Lameter

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