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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] mm: enlarge NUMA counters threshold size
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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From: kemi <kemi.wang@intel.com>
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On 2017年12月20日 18:12, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 20-12-17 13:52:14, kemi wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2017年12月19日 20:40, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> On Tue 19-12-17 14:39:24, Kemi Wang wrote:
>>>> We have seen significant overhead in cache bouncing caused by NUMA counters
>>>> update in multi-threaded page allocation. See 'commit 1d90ca897cb0 ("mm:
>>>> update NUMA counter threshold size")' for more details.
>>>>
>>>> This patch updates NUMA counters to a fixed size of (MAX_S16 - 2) and deals
>>>> with global counter update using different threshold size for node page
>>>> stats.
>>>
>>> Again, no numbers.
>>
>> Compare to vanilla kernel, I don't think it has performance improvement, so
>> I didn't post performance data here.
>> But, if you would like to see performance gain from enlarging threshold size
>> for NUMA stats (compare to the first patch), I will do that later. 
> 
> Please do. I would also like to hear _why_ all counters cannot simply
> behave same. In other words why we cannot simply increase
> stat_threshold? Maybe calculate_normal_threshold needs a better scaling
> for larger machines.
> 

Agree. We may consider that.
But, unlike NUMA counters which do not effect system decision.
We need consider very carefully when increase stat_threshold for all the counters
for larger machines. BTW, this is another topic that we may discuss it in different
thread.