Re: [PATCH V2 0/6] Memory compaction efficiency improvements

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



> >>stress-highalloc
> >>                              3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2              3.13-rc2
> >>                                 2-thp                 3-thp                 4-thp                 5-thp                 6-thp
> >>Success 1 Min          2.00 (  0.00%)        7.00 (-250.00%)       18.00 (-800.00%)       19.00 (-850.00%)       26.00 (-1200.00%)
> >>Success 1 Mean        19.20 (  0.00%)       17.80 (  7.29%)       29.20 (-52.08%)       29.90 (-55.73%)       32.80 (-70.83%)
> >>Success 1 Max         27.00 (  0.00%)       29.00 ( -7.41%)       35.00 (-29.63%)       36.00 (-33.33%)       37.00 (-37.04%)
> >>Success 2 Min          3.00 (  0.00%)        8.00 (-166.67%)       21.00 (-600.00%)       21.00 (-600.00%)       32.00 (-966.67%)
> >>Success 2 Mean        19.30 (  0.00%)       17.90 (  7.25%)       32.20 (-66.84%)       32.60 (-68.91%)       35.70 (-84.97%)
> >>Success 2 Max         27.00 (  0.00%)       30.00 (-11.11%)       36.00 (-33.33%)       37.00 (-37.04%)       39.00 (-44.44%)
> >>Success 3 Min         62.00 (  0.00%)       62.00 (  0.00%)       85.00 (-37.10%)       75.00 (-20.97%)       64.00 ( -3.23%)
> >>Success 3 Mean        66.30 (  0.00%)       65.50 (  1.21%)       85.60 (-29.11%)       83.40 (-25.79%)       83.50 (-25.94%)
> >>Success 3 Max         70.00 (  0.00%)       69.00 (  1.43%)       87.00 (-24.29%)       86.00 (-22.86%)       87.00 (-24.29%)
> >>
> >>             3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2    3.13-rc2
> >>                2-thp       3-thp       4-thp       5-thp       6-thp
> >>User         6547.93     6475.85     6265.54     6289.46     6189.96
> >>System       1053.42     1047.28     1043.23     1042.73     1038.73
> >>Elapsed      1835.43     1821.96     1908.67     1912.74     1956.38
> >
> >Hello, Vlastimil.
> >
> >I have some questions related to your stat, not your patchset,
> >just for curiosity. :)
> >
> >Are these results, "elapsed time" and "vmstat", for Success 3 line scenario?
> 
> No that's for the whole test which does the scenarios in succession.
> 

Okay!

> >If so, could you show me others?
> >I wonder why thp case consumes more system time rather than no-thp case.
> 
> Unfortunately these stats are not that useful as they don't
> distinguish the 3 phases and also include what the background load
> does. They are included just to show that nothing truly dramatic is
> happening.
> So
> 
> >And I found that elapsed time has no big difference between both cases,
> >roughly less than 2%. In this situation, do we get more benefits with
> >aggressive allocation like no-thp case?
> 
> Elapsed time suffers from the same problem, so it's again hard to
> say how relevant it actually is to the allocator workload and how
> much to background load. It seems that the more successful allocator
> is, the longer elapsed time (in both thp and nothp case). My guess
> is that less memory available for the background load makes it
> progress slower which affects the duration of the test as a whole.
> 
> I hope that in case of further compaction patches that would be
> potentially more intrusive to the its design (and not bugfixes and
> simple tweaks to the existing design as this series) I will have a
> more detailed breakdown of what time is spent where.

Okay!

Thanks.

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>




[Index of Archives]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux Omap]     [Fedora ARM]     [IETF Annouce]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux]     [Linux OMAP]     [Linux MIPS]     [ECOS]     [Asterisk Internet PBX]     [Linux API]