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Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression
Date 2016-08-17 17:50 +0200
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On Tue 16-08-16 10:47:36, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Mel,
>  thanks for taking a look. Your theory sounds more complete than mine,
> and since Dave is able to see the problem with 4.7, it would be nice
> to hear about the 4.6 behavior and commit ede37713737 in particular.
> 
> That one seems more likely to affect contention than the zone/node one
> I found during the merge window anyway, since it actually removes a
> sleep in kswapd during congestion.

Hmm, the patch removes a short sleep from wait_iff_congested for
kworkers but that cannot affect kswapd context. Then it removes
wait_iff_congested from should_reclaim_retry but that is not kswapd path
and the sleep was added in the same merge window so it wasn't in 4.6 so
it shouldn't make any difference as well.

So I am not really sure how it could make any difference.

I will try to catch up with the rest of the email thread but from a
quick glance it just feels like we are doing more more work under the
lock.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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Re: [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-11 01:10 +0200
  Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-08-11 02:00 +0200
    Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-08-11 02:20 +0200
      Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-11 02:30 +0200
        Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-08-11 02:40 +0200
          Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-11 03:10 +0200
            Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-11 06:50 +0200
              Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-08-15 19:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-16 02:30 +0200
            Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6%  regression Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-08-11 18:00 +0200
              Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-11 19:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-08-11 20:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-11 22:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6%  regression Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-08-11 22:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-11 22:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-08-12 00:20 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-12 00:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-11 23:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6%  regression Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-08-12 00:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-12 03:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-12 04:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-12 06:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-12 20:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> - 2016-08-14 11:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-15 02:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-15 03:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-15 04:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-15 05:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-15 07:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-16 00:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-16 00:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-16 01:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-16 01:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-16 02:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-08-16 17:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-16 20:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-17 17:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-17 18:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-08-17 17:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-08-18 02:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-18 09:20 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-08-18 15:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-19 04:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-19 04:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-08-19 11:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-08-19 13:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-20 01:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-20 03:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-08-20 14:20 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-19 06:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> - 2016-08-19 17:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-08-24 17:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-18 04:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-16 02:20 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-16 02:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-16 03:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-16 02:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-16 04:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-17 00:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-17 01:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-16 01:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-16 02:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-16 02:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-08-15 07:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-08-17 18:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> - 2016-08-15 15:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-12 04:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-12 04:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6%  regression Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-08-12 05:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-12 05:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-12 06:20 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-12 07:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-12 08:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> - 2016-08-12 08:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> - 2016-08-12 11:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-12 12:10 +0200
                Re: [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> - 2016-08-12 12:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6%  regression Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-08-13 02:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6%  regression Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-08-14 10:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> - 2016-08-14 10:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6%  regression Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-08-14 11:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> - 2016-08-14 11:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6%  regression Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-08-14 18:20 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-15 01:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> - 2016-08-15 02:00 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> - 2016-08-15 16:20 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-15 23:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> - 2016-08-16 14:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-08-15 22:40 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6%     regression "Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> - 2016-08-23 00:10 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> - 2016-08-16 15:30 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-14 12:00 +0200
          Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-11 03:20 +0200
            Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-11 03:40 +0200
              Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> - 2016-08-11 04:50 +0200
                Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-11 05:20 +0200
            Re: [LKP] [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2016-08-12 03:30 +0200
  Re: [lkp] [xfs] 68a9f5e700: aim7.jobs-per-min -13.6% regression Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-08-11 02:00 +0200

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