Re: [PATCH 0/10] Reduce system disruption due to kswapd V2

[Mel Gorman]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 08:40:04PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:55:13PM +0200, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> > On 09.04.2013 13:06, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > - The only slightly negative thing I observed is that with the patch
> > applied kswapd burns 10x - 20x more CPU. So instead of about 15
> > seconds, it has now spent more than 4 minutes on one particular
> > machine with a quite steady load (after about 12 days of uptime).
> > Admittedly, that's still nothing too alarming, but...
> > 
> 
> Would you happen to know what circumstances trigger the higher CPU
> usage?
> 

There is also a slight possibility it has been fixed in V3 by the
proportional scanning changes. In my own parallelio tests I got the
following kswapd CPU times from top.

3.9.0-rc6-vanilla           0:05.21
3.9.0-rc6-lessdisrupt-v2r11 0:07.44
3.9.0-rc6-lessdisrupt-v3r6  0:03.21

In v2, I did see slightly higher CPU usage but it was reduced in v3. For
a general set of page reclaim tests I got

3.9.0-rc6-vanilla-micro     3:09.51
3.9.0-rc6-lessdisrupt-v2r11 2:57.78
3.9.0-rc6-lessdisrupt-v3r6  1:10.05

In that case, v2 was comparable so unfortunately I was never seeing the
10-20x more CPU that you got.

Thanks.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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