Re: [RFC 0/6] the big khugepaged redesign

[Andres Freund]

Hi,

On 2015-03-05 17:30:16 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> That however means the workload is based on hugetlbfs and shouldn't trigger THP
> page fault activity, which is the aim of this patchset. Some more googling made
> me recall that last LSF/MM, postgresql people mentioned THP issues and pointed
> at compaction. See http://lwn.net/Articles/591723/ That's exactly where this
> patchset should help, but I obviously won't be able to measure this before LSF/MM...
> 
> I'm CCing the psql guys from last year LSF/MM - do you have any insight about
> psql performance with THPs enabled/disabled on recent kernels, where e.g.
> compaction is no longer synchronous for THP page faults?

What exactly counts as "recent" in this context? Most of the bigger
installations where we found THP to be absolutely prohibitive (slowdowns
on the order of a magnitude, huge latency spikes) unfortunately run
quite old kernels...  I guess 3.11 does *not* count :/? That'd be a
bigger machine where I could relatively quickly reenable THP to check
whether it's still bad. I might be able to trigger it to be rebooted
onto a newer kernel, will ask.

Greetings,

Andres Freund
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