[RFC PATCH v2 0/10] makedumpfile: cyclic processing to keep memory consumption.

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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 03:27:10PM +0900, Atsushi Kumagai wrote:

[..]
> > >> 
> > >> STEP [Excluding free pages       ] : 49.846321 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 6.339228 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding free pages       ] : 48.595884 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 6.530479 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding free pages       ] : 48.598879 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 6.527133 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding free pages       ] : 48.602401 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 6.502681 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding free pages       ] : 48.602010 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 6.469853 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding free pages       ] : 48.601637 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 6.431381 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding free pages       ] : 48.601195 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 6.416676 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding free pages       ] : 48.602221 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 6.387611 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding free pages       ] : 48.589972 seconds
> > >> STEP [Excluding unnecessary pages] : 0.816955 seconds
> > > 
> > > So what does above represent. Each step is taking 48 seconds or total
> > > time taken to filter vmcore is 48 seconds? What's the buffer size used
> > > here.
> > > 
> > 
> > The free_list logic always filteres a whole memory range even if the
> > range we need to filter is only a cerntain part, so it took about 48
> > seconds at each cycle.
> 
> It seems that the mem_map array logic is effective especially in large machine.
> I'll review your mem_map array patchset after the next version is released.

Yes please review and merge mem_map array changes also. This seems to be
resulting in signifacnt saving. According to numbers above, looks like it cuts
down filtering time by 9 times.

Thanks
Vivek



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