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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210521102826.28552-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 5/21/21 3:28 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: > The vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction is used to increase the batch and high > limits for the per-cpu page allocator (PCP). The intent behind the sysctl > is to reduce zone lock acquisition when allocating/freeing pages but it has > a problem. While it can decrease contention, it can also increase latency > on the allocation side due to unreasonably large batch sizes. This leads > to games where an administrator adjusts percpu_pagelist_fraction on the > fly to work around contention and allocation latency problems. > > This series aims to alleviate the problems with zone lock contention while > avoiding the allocation-side latency problems. For the purposes of review, > it's easier to remove this sysctl now and reintroduce a similar sysctl > later in the series that deals only with pcp->high. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman I despise working with percpu_pagelist_fraction. I usually just end up poking random numbers into it and then checking what the fallout looks like in /proc/zoneinfo is. Good riddance. Acked-by: Dave Hansen