Re: [Lhms-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/5] Reducing fragmentation using zones

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Mel Gorman wrote:
Joel Schopp wrote:
Benchmark comparison between -mm+NoOOM tree and with the new zones
I know you had also previously posted a very simplified version of your real
fragmentation avoidance patches.  I was curious if you could repost those
with the other benchmarks for a 3 way comparison.  The simplified version
got rid of a lot of the complexity people were complaining about and in my
mind still seems like preferable direction.

I agree. I think you should try with simplified version again.
Then, we can discuss.


Results from list-based have been posted. The actual patches will be
posted tomorrow (in local time, that is in about 12 hours time)

Thank you.


 I don't like using bitmap which I removed (T.T

Zone based approaches are runtime inflexible and require boot time tuning by
the sysadmin.  There are lots of workloads that "reasonable" defaults for a
zone based approach would cause the system to regress terribly.

IMHO, I don't like automatic runtime tuning, you say 'flexible' here.
I think flexibility allows 2^(MAX_ORDER - 1) size fragmentaion.
When SECTION_SIZE > MAX_ORDER, this is terrible.


In an ideal world, we would have both. Zone-based would give guarantees on
the availability of reclaimed pages and list-based would give best-effort
everywhere.

I love certainty that sysadmin can grap his system at boot-time.

It requires careful tuning. For suddenly different workloads, things may
go wrong. As with everything else, testing is required from workloads
defined by multiple people.

Yes, we need more test.


And, for people who want to remove range of memory, list-based approach will
need some other hook and its flexibility is of no use.
(If list-based approach goes, I or someone will do.)


Will do what?

add kernelcore= boot option and so on :)
As you say, "In an ideal world, we would have both".

I know zone->zone_start_pfn can be removed very easily.
This means there is possiblity to reconfigure zone on demand and
zone-based approach can be a bit more fliexible.


The obvious concern is that it is very easy to grow ZONE_NORMAL or
ZONE_HIGHMEM into the ZONE_EASYRCLM zone but it is hard to do the opposite
because you must be able to reclaim the pages at the end of the "awkward"
zone.
Yes, this is weak point of ZONE_EASYRCLM.

By the way, please test this in list-based approach.
==
%ls -lR / (and some commands uses many slabs)
%do high ordet test
==

-- Kame.

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