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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: quicklists confuse meminfo
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:20:55 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803091407510.3099@apollo.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080309123432.GA3267@elte.hu>

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > > IMHO we need shrink pgtable cache mecanism.
> > 
> > ouch! Could you try the patch below? How large is the quicklist cache 
> > with this applied?
> 
> hm, Thomas pointed it out that this wont solve all the problems as 
> quicklists have a built-in "preserve me" throttle (which is rather 
> stupid).

There is also the imbalance across CPUs. I think I figured out what's
going there as well. The allocation happens on one CPU (via
page_alloc), but the tear down happens on the other CPU, which
accumulates the pages in the quicklist. So the quicklist of the busy
CPU is empty, while the one of the idle CPU goes up to the limit. When
I pin the loop to one CPU then the quicklists are stable.

Thanks,

	tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-09 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-09 10:19 Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-09 10:26 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-09 10:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-09 10:42 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-09 12:00   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-09 11:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 11:56   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-09 12:01     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 12:49       ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 15:51         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-09 12:03   ` Johannes Weiner
2008-03-09 12:03   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-09 12:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 12:34       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 12:51         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-03-09 13:20         ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2008-03-09 18:46         ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-09 20:21           ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 15:54           ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-10 16:43             ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 17:19               ` Hugh Dickins
2008-03-10 17:25                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 17:31                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-10 17:53                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 18:35                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-10 19:06                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-10 20:54                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-10 21:26                         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-11  4:07             ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-21 12:52               ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-21 14:45                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-26  7:45                   ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-26  7:53                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-26  8:13                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-26 10:37                       ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-26 16:34                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-27  9:48                           ` Bart Van Assche
2008-03-09 19:11         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-03-09 19:25           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 19:27             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-09 19:31               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-10 15:57               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-10 15:55             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-03-09 12:47       ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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