Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753220Ab2KCDhU (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2012 23:37:20 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.216.53]:45066 "EHLO mail-qa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751858Ab2KCDhT (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Nov 2012 23:37:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <50937918.7080302@parallels.com> References: <1351771665-11076-1-git-send-email-glommer@parallels.com> <20121101170454.b7713bce.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <50937918.7080302@parallels.com> From: Greg Thelen Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:36:58 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/29] kmem controller for memcg. To: Glauber Costa Cc: Andrew Morton , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Johannes Weiner , Tejun Heo , Michal Hocko , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , David Rientjes , Ying Han Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1696 Lines: 43 On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Glauber Costa wrote: > On 11/02/2012 04:04 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:07:16 +0400 >> Glauber Costa wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> This work introduces the kernel memory controller for memcg. Unlike previous >>> submissions, this includes the whole controller, comprised of slab and stack >>> memory. >> >> I'm in the middle of (re)reading all this. Meanwhile I'll push it all >> out to http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/ for the crazier testers. >> >> One thing: >> >>> Numbers can be found at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/13/239 >> >> You claim in the above that the fork worload is 'slab intensive". Or >> at least, you seem to - it's a bit fuzzy. >> >> But how slab intensive is it, really? >> >> What is extremely slab intensive is networking. The networking guys >> are very sensitive to slab performance. If this hasn't already been >> done, could you please determine what impact this has upon networking? >> I expect Eric Dumazet, Dave Miller and Tom Herbert could suggest >> testing approaches. >> > > I can test it, but unfortunately I am unlikely to get to prepare a good > environment before Barcelona. > > I know, however, that Greg Thelen was testing netperf in his setup. > Greg, do you have any publishable numbers you could share? I should have some netperf numbers next week. Sorry I've been distracted by other projects recently. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/