Re: [PATCH 00/31] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v8

[Dave Chinner]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:02:24AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:47:57AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > I had tested XFS with earlier releases and noticed no major problems
> > > so later releases tested only one filesystem.  Given the changes since,
> > > a retest is desirable. I've posted the current version of the series but
> > > I'll queue the tests to run over the weekend. They are quite time consuming
> > > to run unfortunately.
> > 
> > Understood. I'm not following the patchset all that closely, so I
> > didn' know you'd already tested XFS.
> > 
> 
> It was needed anyway. Not all of them completed over the weekend. In
> particular, the NUMA machine is taking its time because many of the
> workloads are scaled by memory size and it takes longer.
> 
> > > On the fsmark configuration, I configured the test to use 4K files
> > > instead of 0-sized files that normally would be used to stress inode
> > > creation/deletion. This is to have a mix of page cache and slab
> > > allocations. Shout if this does not suit your expectations.
> > 
> > Sounds fine. I usually limit that test to 10 million inodes - that's
> > my "10-4" test.
> > 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> I'm not going to go through most of the results in detail. The raw data
> is verbose and not necessarily useful in most cases.

Yup, numbers look pretty good and all my concerns have gone away.
Thanks for testing, Mel! :P

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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