Re: [RFC 0/3] reduce latency of direct async compaction

[Aaron Lu]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 07:35:08PM +0800, Aaron Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 10:38:50AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > On 12/03/2015 10:25 AM, Aaron Lu wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > >> Aaron, could you try this on your testcase?
> > > 
> > > The test result is placed at:
> > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49uX3igf4K4enBkdVFScXhFM0U
> > > 
> > > For some reason, the patches made the performace worse. The base tree is
> > > today's Linus git 25364a9e54fb8296837061bf684b76d20eec01fb, and its
> > > performace is about 1000MB/s. After applying this patch series, the
> > > performace drops to 720MB/s.
> > > 
> > > Please let me know if you need more information, thanks.
> > 
> > Hm, compaction stats are at 0. The code in the patches isn't even running.
> > Can you provide the same data also for the base tree?
> 
> My bad, I uploaded the wrong data :-/
> I uploaded again:
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49uX3igf4K4UFI4TEQ3THYta0E
> 
> And I just run the base tree with trace-cmd and found that its
> performace drops significantly(from 1000MB/s to 6xxMB/s), is it that
> trace-cmd will impact performace a lot? Any suggestions on how to run
> the test regarding trace-cmd? i.e. should I aways run usemem under
> trace-cmd or only when necessary?

I just run the test with the base tree and with this patch series
applied(head), I didn't use trace-cmd this time.

The throughput for base tree is 963MB/s while the head is 815MB/s, I
have attached pagetypeinfo/proc-vmstat/perf-profile for them.

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