Re: [PATCH 00/45] Automatic NUMA Balancing V7

[Srikar Dronamraju]

> > 
> > Got a chance to run autonuma-benchmark on a 8 node, 64 core machine. 
> > the results are as below. (for each kernel I ran 5 iterations of
> > autonuma-benchmark)
> > 
> 
> Thanks, a test of v10 would also be appreciated. The differences between
> V7 and V10 are small but do include a change in how migrate rate-limiting
> is handled. It is unlikely it'll make a difference to this test but I'd
> like to rule it out.
> 


Yes, have queued it for testing. Will report on completion.


> > KernelVersion: 3.7.0-rc3-mainline_v37rc7()

Please read it as 3.7-rc3 

> 
> What kernel is this? The name begins with 3.7-rc3 but then says
> v37rc7. v37rc7 of what? I thought it might be v3.7-rc7 but it already said
> it's 3.7-rc3 so I'm confused. Would it be possible to base the tests on
> a similar baseline kernel such as 3.7.0-rc7 or 3.7.0-rc8? The



> balancenuma patches should apply and the autonuma patches can be taken
> from the mm-autonuma-v28fastr4-mels-rebase branch in
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma.git
> 

Yes, for the next set of reports I have based autonuma branch on this
branch.

> Either way, the figures look bad. I'm trying to find a similar machine
> but initially at least I have not had much luck. Can you post the .config
> you used for balancenuma in case I can reproduce the problem on a 4-node
> machine please? Are all the nodes the same size?
> 

No all nodes are not of same size
There are 6 32 GB nodes and 2 64 GB nodes.

Will post the balancenuma config along with results.

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar

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