[Seems a PEBKAC occured on the subject line, resending lest it become a
victim of "oh thats spam".]
Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> [...]
>> lumpy-reclaim-v4.patch
>> have-kswapd-keep-a-minimum-order-free-other-than-order-0.patch
>> only-check-absolute-watermarks-for-alloc_high-and-alloc_harder-allocations.patch
>>
>> Lumpy reclaim. In a similar situation to Mel's patches. Stuck due to
>> general lack or interest and effort.
>
> The lumpy reclaim patches originally came out of work to support Mel's
> anti-fragmentation work. As such I think they have become somewhat
> attached to those patches. Whilst lumpy is most effective where
> placement controls are in place as offered by Mel's work, we see benefit
> from reduction in the "blunderbuss" effect when we reclaim at higher
> orders. While placement control is pretty much required for the very
> highest orders such as huge page size, lower order allocations are
> benefited in terms of lower collateral damage.
>
> There are now a few areas other than huge page allocations which can
> benefit. Stacks are still order 1. Jumbo frames want higher order
> contiguous pages for there incoming hardware buffers. SLUB is showing
> performance benefits from moving to a higher allocation order. All of
> these should benefit from more aggressive targeted reclaim, indeed I
> have been surprised just how often my test workloads trigger lumpy at
> order 1 to get new stacks.
>
> Truly representative work loads are hard to generate for some of these.
> Though we have heard some encouraging noises from those who can
> reproduce these problems.
>
> [...]
>
> -apw
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