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From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Support multiple pages allocation
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 01:27:37PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 10-07-13 18:55:33, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:17:03AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Wed 10-07-13 09:31:42, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 12:00:44PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
> > > > > Which benchmark you are using for this testing?
> > > > 
> > > > I use my own module which do allocation repeatedly.
> > > 
> > > I am not sure this microbenchmark will tell us much. Allocations are
> > > usually not short lived so the longer time might get amortized.
> > > If you want to use the multi page allocation for read ahead then try to
> > > model your numbers on read-ahead workloads.
> > 
> > Of couse. In later, I will get the result on read-ahead workloads or
> > vmalloc workload which is recommended by Zhang.
> > 
> > I think, without this microbenchmark, we cannot know this modification's
> > performance effect to single page allocation accurately. Because the impact
> > to single page allocation is relatively small and it is easily hidden by
> > other factors.
> 
> The main thing is whether the numbers you get from an artificial
> microbenchmark matter at all. You might see a regression which cannot be
> hit in practice because other effects are of magnitude more significant.

Okay. I will keep this in mind.

Thanks for your comment.

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> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
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