Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752153AbaBJAYV (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Feb 2014 19:24:21 -0500 Received: from LGEMRELSE1Q.lge.com ([156.147.1.111]:53844 "EHLO LGEMRELSE1Q.lge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751732AbaBJAYU (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Feb 2014 19:24:20 -0500 X-AuditID: 9c93016f-b7b0cae0000024a7-0f-52f81c31eb75 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:24:26 +0900 From: Joonsoo Kim To: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Rik van Riel , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] compaction related commits Message-ID: <20140210002426.GA12049@lge.com> References: <1391749726-28910-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> <52F4A3F2.1050809@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52F4A3F2.1050809@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:14:26AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > On 02/07/2014 06:08 AM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: > > This patchset is related to the compaction. > > > > patch 1 fixes contrary implementation of the purpose of compaction. > > patch 2~4 are for optimization. > > patch 5 is just for clean-up. > > > > I tested this patchset with stress-highalloc benchmark on Mel's mmtest > > and cannot find any regression in terms of success rate. And I find > > much reduced system time. Below is result of 3 runs. > > What was the memory size? Mel told me this test shouldn't be run with more than 4GB. Yep, I know! My system is 4GB quad core system. > > * Before > > time :: stress-highalloc 3276.26 user 740.52 system 1664.79 elapsed > > time :: stress-highalloc 3640.71 user 771.32 system 1633.83 elapsed > > time :: stress-highalloc 3691.64 user 775.44 system 1638.05 elapsed > > > > avg system: 1645 s > > > > * After > > time :: stress-highalloc 3225.51 user 732.40 system 1542.76 elapsed > > time :: stress-highalloc 3524.31 user 749.63 system 1512.88 elapsed > > time :: stress-highalloc 3610.55 user 757.20 system 1505.70 elapsed > > > > avg system: 1519 s > > > > That is 7% reduced system time. Oops, It should be elapsed time ;) > Why not post the whole compare-mmtests output? There are more metrics in there and extra > eyes never hurt. > Reason is that I can't average the result of 10 runs easily, since I'm not familiar to mmtest. Do you share your method to get the average of 10 runs? Anyway, I did it manually and below is the average result of 10 runs. compaction-base+ is based on 3.13.0 with Vlastimil's recent fixes. compaction-fix+ has this patch series on top of compaction-base+. Thanks. stress-highalloc 3.13.0 3.13.0 compaction-base+ compaction-fix+ Success 1 14.10 15.00 Success 2 20.20 20.00 Success 3 68.30 73.40 3.13.0 3.13.0 compaction-base+ compaction-fix+ User 3486.02 3437.13 System 757.92 741.15 Elapsed 1638.52 1488.32 3.13.0 3.13.0 compaction-base+ compaction-fix+ Minor Faults 172591561 167116621 Major Faults 984 859 Swap Ins 743 653 Swap Outs 3657 3535 Direct pages scanned 129742 127344 Kswapd pages scanned 1852277 1817825 Kswapd pages reclaimed 1838000 1804212 Direct pages reclaimed 129719 127327 Kswapd efficiency 98% 98% Kswapd velocity 1130.066 1221.296 Direct efficiency 99% 99% Direct velocity 79.367 85.585 Percentage direct scans 6% 6% Zone normal velocity 231.829 246.097 Zone dma32 velocity 972.589 1055.158 Zone dma velocity 5.015 5.626 Page writes by reclaim 6287 6534 Page writes file 2630 2999 Page writes anon 3657 3535 Page reclaim immediate 2187 2080 Sector Reads 2917808 2877336 Sector Writes 11477891 11206722 Page rescued immediate 0 0 Slabs scanned 2214118 2168524 Direct inode steals 12181 9788 Kswapd inode steals 144830 132109 Kswapd skipped wait 0 0 THP fault alloc 0 0 THP collapse alloc 0 0 THP splits 0 0 THP fault fallback 0 0 THP collapse fail 0 0 Compaction stalls 738 714 Compaction success 194 207 Compaction failures 543 507 Page migrate success 1806083 1464014 Page migrate failure 0 0 Compaction pages isolated 3873329 3162974 Compaction migrate scanned 74594862 59874420 Compaction free scanned 125888854 110868637 Compaction cost 2469 1998 -- 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/